CMPL 440 - Music, Orality & Literature

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

This course explores the long-standing relationship between verbal art and music in various high art, popular and folk traditions through examples from Spain, the U.S. and Latin America. Topics include: how musical paradigms shape literary aesthetics, improvisation in music and verbal art, notions of Romanticism and the dissonance of Modernity in literature and music, the relationship between popular song and poetry, tradition and innovation in oraliture, models of performance in literature and music. Taught in Spanish.

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: A. Cara

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with HISP 440
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Hispanic Studies