Topics in Music History and Literature ((2))

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Integrated study of art-music literature and historical contexts from the seventeenth century through the present, through analysis and discussion of selected works and scholarly commentary. Sample topics include human interaction in Mozart, Beethoven's music, and reception, the Romantic miniature, musical drama in Verdi's operas, interward Modernism, society, and politics, English-language opera, American experimentalism, and neo-Romanticism.