Music, Art & Drama
Spring 2009
Background:
· Examples
· Perceiving and Receiving Art
· How Sound Works (Video Lecture)
· Theatre
Medieval: 500 - 1400
· Art
The Renaissance: 1400 - 1600
· History
· Art
· Theatre - Midsummer Night's Dream
· Synopsis
· Text
Go to http://nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd/
The Baroque Era: 1600 - 1750 The Classical Era: 1750 - 1800
· History
· Antonio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons)
· George Frideric Handel - (The Messiah)
· Art
Opera:
Don Giovanni (1787) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
Carmen (1875) - Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Madamma Butterfly (1904) - Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
· Opera
Impressionism: (Late 19th to early 20th centuries)
· About
· Styles
· Glossary
Forms:
· Biopoem