Music 231 - Colloquium: Beyond Music Theatre

Offered as MUS 231 and THE 231. Music and theatre are both time-based arts that typically involve bodies in motion in front of an audience. Though they may be considered separate disciplines, the full extent of what they share often makes them wonderfully indistinguishable. This course probes the intersections of music and theatre through a historical survey of genres, works, artists, and practitioners. While material covered includes clearly relevant genres such as musicals and opera, the focus is on more difficult to categorize topics such as performance art, immersive theatre, and experimental music, in an open-minded examination of what makes this alliance so compelling. Enrollment limited to 20.