MUSIC 6224

Mozart in Context

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Contexts for studying icon Mozart are limitless: the man himself, as son, husband, father, student, teacher, entrepreneur, pianist, conductor and thinker; his music as it is to us, to his contemporaries, to his posterity; the music, politics and culture of the society in which he lived—to name a few. While the seminar investigates such matters, students will develop individual research projects to present at the end of the semester and write up as a formal papers. Their research will exploit Cornell's remarkable resources in the Cox Library of Music & Dance, Kroch Library, the Center for Historical Keyboards, and faculty members in adjacent departments. MUSIC 4224 meets bi-weekly, once on its own and once jointly with MUSIC 6224.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ability to read music is required.

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