Music 334 - Music Analysis
Spring
2018
01
4.00
Adeline Mueller
TTH 10:00AM-11:15AM
Mount Holyoke College
102859
Pratt Memorial Music Bldg 101
amueller@mtholyoke.edu
The course begins with an overview of the ways music analysis informs, and is informed by, other disciplines of musical inquiry: history, criticism, etc. The course culminates in an application of various analytic approaches to a small group of related works within the Western art music tradition. This year the topic will be adapting plays into operas, and we will study two operatic adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Purcell's The Fairy-Queen (1692) and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960).
Prereq: MUSIC-232.