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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2023 |
Registration ID | MUSCH250B001 |
Course Title | Words and Music |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Music |
Instructor | Freedman,Richard |
Times and Days | MW 02:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | ROB200 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2323 This course will be devoted to the amazing vocal music of the European Renaissance, exploring the ways in which literary and musical modes of interpretation repeatedly informed each other during this period. How do literary readings of texts differ from musical ones? How did Renaissance musicians bring their own habits as readers to musical and verbal texts they sang and played? Our primary texts will be the works themselves: French chansons, Italian madrigals, Latin motets, and solo songs of the fifteenth through early seventeenth centuries. We will study poetry by Petrarch, Tasso, Christine de Pizan, Ronsard as interpreted by composers like Guillaume Dufay, Josquin Desprez, Cipriano de Rore, Orlandus Lassus, Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi (and plenty of others, too). Our discussions will be both historical (exploring the values and artistic ideals at work in the European Renaissance) and critical (investigating the ways of knowing or relating words and music). Div: III; Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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