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| Semester: | Summer 2020 |
| Number: | 0196-121-011 |
| Instructor: | Erin Heisel |
| Note: | Online, Asynchronous |
| Location: | Online |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Meets: | May 26 - June 29 |
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| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students will trace the history of Musical Theatre from its beginnings in the early Baroque period up to and including 20th and 21st century productions. Representative works from different style periods will be examined in their socio-cultural contexts, with an emphasis on current trends on the Broadway stage. (Distribution Reqs:Arts) |
| Learning Goals: |
The music-dramatic literature of opera is one of the great artistic and intellectual achievements of Western civilization. The literature of American musical theater represents American culture's unique and most significant contribution to world drama. As we focus on representative examples of opera and musical theater, students will begin to understand how music is used to convey dramatic narrative, illuminate character, and enlighten an audience. Attention will be given to the connection between opera/music theater and the social context in which it is created. As the world and its people have changed over the past 400 years, so has the music drama which is created and performed within it, and this connection will be explored and discussed as a fundamental component of the course. Included in this discussion will be aspects of sociology, philosophy, moral and ethical development, religious and political thought.By the end of the semester, students will be able to:1. Analyze a work of opera or American musical theater in terms of musical form and expression.2. Analyze a work of opera or American musical theater in terms of drama.3. Combine both perspectives into a coherent understanding of specific masterpieces in the literature and into a comprehensive understanding of the various genres, including opera seria, opera buffa, operetta, verismo, and musical comedy. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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