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Notes: Synchronous meetings on Tuesdays only, 11:00-12:15

Notes: This course examines the music, social and political history, art, and literature of Paris from the time of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) to the end of the First World War (1918). Through of series of assignments consisting of readings, listening, and musical analysis, the course will explore the artistic culture of Paris during this period. While the principal focus will be on the music of the period, there will also be assignments that involve social and political history, as well as the parallels between music, art, and literature. The first part of the course will treat the major composers of the late Romantic period in Paris. The final portion of the course will focus upon the unique contribution of Debussy and Ravel to French music during between 1900-1918. Synchronous meetings on Wednesdays only, 09:30-10:45

Notes: Romantic Opera. This course presents an overview of selected operas and ideas concerning opera during the period from 1830 to 1914, the period of time during which Romantic opera established itself as today's operatic canon. The course offers an historical and analytical account of selected operas from the Italian, French, German, and Russian traditions, focusing especially on works composed between 1850 and 1900, the most fertile years in terms of the composition of today's major repertory works. Operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Massenet, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Puccini will be discussed. The course will involve listening, history, analysis, as well as term paper assignments.

Notes: The Broadway Musical. This course is intended for the general undergraduate student. It will provide a history of the Broadway music from its roots in operetta and early American popular song with a focus on the major classics of Broadway theatre to about 1960. There will also be a brief treatment of the concept musical of the post-1960 period. The focus of the course will concern selected major musicals (Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, etc.) in an historical/analytical context, treating the role of song as a central, evolving element in the art form. There will be a substantial listening (viewing) component. A detailed syllabus of weekly lectures, readings, and listening assignments will be provided. Students may take both MUSI 306 and MUSI 402 if the topic of study is different and if they receive permission from the Academic Development Specialists (ADS); interested students should contact the ADS advisors in the Student Success Centre.

Notes: The Broadway Musical

Notes: Nineteenth-Century Art Song. The nineteenth-century produced the largest number of songs that still fill concert programs. This course presents and overview of the song genre beginning with Schubert and concluding with the early song of Schoenberg and Berg. The course will also address the song literature of France, England, and Spain. The course will trace the history of nineteenth-century art song through the study and analysis of representative works by the major composers of song during the century. The course will include text analysis, the study of musical forms and melodic structures, and the role of the accompaniment. There will be a substantial listening component to the course.

Notes: This course will focus on Beethoven: the Man, the Music, the Myth.

Notes: This course is intended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in music. After initially treating ideas of nationalism in music, as developed by Gottfried Herder in the late eighteenth century, the course explores the national musical cultures of Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Bohemia, Scandinavia, Spain, and England during the middle and later nineteenth century. The course blends guided listening and analysis with selected readings, with the purpose of developing an awareness of the common elements behind these different national musical cultures (folk music, dance, opera, symphonic poem), as well as their individual national elements.

Notes: This course presents an overview of selected operas and ideas concerning opera during the period from 1830 to 1914. Operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Massenet, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Puccini will be discussed. The course will involve listening, history, analysis, as well as term paper assignments.

Notes: This course will focus on Mozart - the Man, the Music, the Myth.

Notes: Combined with MUSI 633. Topic: Music and Culture in France, 1870 to 1918.

Notes: Combined with MUSI 533.

Notes: Combined with MUSI 535.

Notes: Combined with MUSI 633. Topic: Choral Music Literature

Notes: Combined with MUSI 633. Topic: Romantic Nationalism

Notes: Combined courses MUHL 571.14 & 671.14 - Chamber Music - Classical Period

Notes: Combined courses MUHL 571.13 & MUHL 671.16 - Music History - Vienna.