Music, Art & Drama

 

Spring 2009

Syllabus

Term Paper

Background:

·         Looking at Art

·         Examples

·         Perceiving and Receiving Art

·         How Sound Works (Video Lecture)

·         Music Terms

·         Theatre

·         More info

Medieval:    500 - 1400

·         Art

 

 

The Renaissance:    1400 - 1600

·         History

·         Art

·         Theatre - Midsummer Night's Dream

·         Synopsis

·         Text

    Go to http://nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd/

·         Michelangelo & da Vinci

·         Anguisolla, Fontana, Sirani

·         Verse & Prose

The Baroque Era:  1600 - 1750  The Classical Era:  1750 - 1800

·         Music Terms

·         Music/Art

·         History

·         Good Link for Baroque Music

·         Antonio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons)

·         George Frideric Handel - (The Messiah)

-    Messiah Libretto

·         Art

Opera:  

    Don Giovanni (1787) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756 - 1791)  

    Example of a recitative

    Example of Aria/Trio

    Study Notes for Don Giovanni

    The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man

    Freemasonry

    Carmen (1875) - Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

        Romanticism - about

    Synopsis

    Madamma Butterfly (1904) - Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)

·         Opera

·         Commedia dell'arte

Impressionism:   (Late 19th to early 20th centuries)

·         About

·         Artists and links

·         Styles

·         Class Examples

·         Glossary

West Side Story - 1957 - 1961    

·         About the musical

·         Elements of the musical

Forms:

·         Art Analysis

·         Music Analysis

·         Drama Analysis

·         Biopoem