MUSIC 4302

Love, Loss, and Longing: The World of Nineteenth-Century German Song

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course, open to suitably qualified undergraduates and graduate students, will survey the rich and varied repertory of nineteenth-century German song (Lied). In charting the course of the Lied, we will focus on representative songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Brahms, and others, exploring how musical, poetic, and cultural meanings emerged from the interweaving of notes and letters.   Above all, we will consider the Lied as music to be performed, in accordance with the social functions it continues to fulfill in drawing-rooms, salons, and concert halls across Germany and beyond. To this end, every participant in the course will be expected to sing or to play the piano in order to reflect on the experience of song-making and how it informs aesthetic, historical, hermeneutical, and analytical perspectives on Lieder. As needed, untutored vocalists will be coached, either by Professor Kellock or by advanced singers taking the course.

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)

Comments Co-meets with MUSIC 7302.

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