| Fall Term 2020 Debussy: Contextual Perspectives - 5242 - MUCO 441 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: MUCO 212 or MUCO 202 Catalog Description : In this course we will explore the music, attitudes, and life of Claude Debussy in interaction with multiple cultural forces. We will explore the interpretive potential of resonances between Debussy’s music and the political, social, and artistic world of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century; conceptions and constructions of cultural identities; questions, challenges, and possibilities related to biography and primary source materials; possibilities related to practices of listening, analysis, and performance; and the power of writing. We will consider some of the ways that the value and meaning of Debussy’s music have been categorized and theorized during his life and after, as well as some of the ways that these discourses might affect conceptions of and relationships with this music, blocking and revealing possibilities. PREREQUISITES: MUCO 212 Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, GER Writing Intensive, 400-599 Advanced Course
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