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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These courses offer students historical contexts for European musical styles from the Baroque to Modern Period
\nDuring classes, students listen to audio recordings and explore both historical and aesthetic elements of each instrumental and vocal genre. The classes also analyze works with attention paid to distinctions in style and techniques for each time period, as well as focusin on individual musical elements such as harmony, melody, and rhythm.
\nThe listening portion of the course helps to develop a greater awareness and appreciation for all music and its connections to other art forms (literature, painting, and architecture in particular).<\/p>\n

When possible, and with all that Florence has to offer, students will attend relevant live performances at the important venues of the city.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_toggle title=”Music history surveys “]<\/p>\n

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  1. Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque Periods.<\/li>\n
  2. Classical, Romantic, Contemporary Periods.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A chronological survey, divided into two semesters, of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present, the courses emphasize changes in musical styles and forms. These two comprehensive chronological surveys explore music within its historical context, touching upon the social, political, scientific, and artistic landscape of each period, with an emphasis on key composers and masterpieces.\u00a0 Throughout the semester special attention will be given to the development of listening skills, with the aim of enabling a dynamic and critical engagement with the musical works studied.\u00a0 No previous musical experience is required.\u00a0 It is vital that students keep up with the reading and listening assignments. Each lecture will focus on one or more specific pieces of music, and students will be expected to have read the assigned passages available online and to have listened to the assigned works in advance of the relevant lecture.<\/p>\n

    [\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Music appreciation “]<\/p>\n

    The study of several musical masterpieces, from the works of Bach and Handel to the 20th<\/sup>– Century American musical.<\/p>\n

    Study of a representative selection of pieces in the current repertory of the concert hall from the last 300 years of Western classical music, beginning with an appreciation of the elements of music (melody, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, performance issues) and then developing critical listening tools while viewing and listening to a succession of selected masterpieces such as Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em>, Mozart\u2019s Clarinet Quintet<\/em>, Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony<\/em>, Berlioz\u2019s Symphonie Fantastique<\/em>, Verdi\u2019s Otello<\/em>, Stravinsky\u2019s Petrushka<\/em>, and Bernstein\u2019s West Side Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    [\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”How we listen to and perform music in our age of recording “]<\/p>\n

    In the last 100 years of recordings our relationship to music has changed in interesting and significant ways.<\/p>\n

    This course will have two guiding principles: the \u201cpast\u201d begins yesterday, and the art of listening to music \u2013 live or in recorded form \u2013 is a skill of active participation in which the listener engages with the artistic process.\u00a0 In dealing with the music of the past, the course will consider the following ideas.\u00a0 Is a work of art (a composition) a one-time aesthetic statement of expression representative of its own time, or does that work continue to live, breathe, change, and evolve \u2013 and, if so, how?\u00a0 After inspiration, composition, preparation, and initial performances \u2013 necessary steps in its gestation \u2013 is a work heard (seen) differently with the passing of time?\u00a0 Should a given contemporary performance or recording be at all \u201cidentical\u201d or \u201cclose\u201d to the original performance, and if so in what ways?\u00a0 In fact, how may we speak of \u201cauthenticity\u201d in musical performance?\u00a0 What were the expectations of listeners at the time of first performances and should that have any bearing on performances today?\u00a0 With the development of recorded technology and our extraordinary access to recorded music, how important are live performances today?\u00a0 Is there a difference, in fact, in hearing a work live or recorded, and if so what is it and how does it affect us?<\/p>\n

    [\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Individual composer studies “]<\/p>\n

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    1. Monteverdi and Vivaldi<\/li>\n
    2. Mozart and Haydn<\/li>\n
    3. Beethoven<\/li>\n
    4. German Romantics: Shubert, Schumann, Brahms<\/li>\n
    5. Bach and Handel<\/li>\n
    6. Italian Opera of the 19th<\/sup> century<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Students are introduced to Italian opera, from a background in the earliest masterpieces such as \u201cOrfeo\u201d by Monteverdi to \u201cLa Boheme\u201d by Puccini, including works such as \u201cDon Giovanni\u201d by Mozart, \u201cIl Barbiere di Siviglia\u201d by Rossini, \u201cLa Traviata\u201d by Verdi, and others with careful attention to analyses of language (libretto) and dramatic action on stage.<\/p>\n

      \u00a0The operas of Verdi within the context of Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento is the main focus of study.<\/p>\n

      \u00a0This course offers students attendance at a live performance in one of the magnificent opera theaters of Florence or nearby cities.<\/p>\n

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