THEA 338
Facing the Music Spring 2010
Division I
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Music has accompanied theatrical performance since the birth of drama. Over time music on stage has served many dramatic functions: sometimes it merely serves to embellish the emotive temperature but, more consequentially, music can also constitute the major source of dramatic articulation. In this course we will study the specific dramatic function of music in such works as Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, Verdi’s Otello, Brecht’s Mahagonny and The Measures Taken, (music by Weill and Eisler), Sondheim’s Company and Sweeney Todd, and Glass and Wilson’s postmodern opera Einstein on the Beach. The course will also study the variety of working relationships that musicians have enjoyed with their collaborators in theatrical production.
The Class: Format: discussion/seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 10
Class#: 3395
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: energetic and committed participation is required; written exercises will include, a midterm report on the role of music in a live performance, and a final paper on a dramatic work chosen in consultation with the instructor
Prerequisites: none
Distributions: Division I

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