CMPL 381 - Modernism and Music

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV

New course added 10.23.13.

This course examines the intersection of literary and musical modernism by probing the concepts of tradition and innovation (atonality, the avant-garde); the blending of "popular" and "high" art; the aesthetics of the grotesque and the primitive; and the politics of music. Students will focus on modernist poetry and musical experimentation; the modernist novel and musical narrativity; and the modernist opera in the works of Bely, Bryusov, Joyce, Thomas Mann, Proust; Scriabin, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Britten. Field trips to Cleveland or Oberlin concerts and to the Allen Memorial Art Museum required.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. Dimova
Prerequisites & Notes
Junior or senior standing. CMPL 200, CMPL 260, any music history or theory course, or permission of the instructor.