TITLE: Literature and Music: Exploration and Criticism of Dual Disciplines

DATE: March 5, 2013

TIME: 8:30am - 3:00pm

LOCATION: University Hall, ADP Center, Room 1145

INSTRUCTOR: Marissa Silverman, PhD

From Petrarch to Liszt, Shakespeare to Tchaikovsky, Debussy to Mallarme, Shostakovich to Yevtushenko, the works of writers have inspired numerous composers.

 Participants will explore literature and music and how they relate to one another.  Through methods of "shared inquiry," this class will survey the combined fruits of writers and composers.  In addition, participants will be introduced to criticism from the perspective of experiential evocation.  In other words, they will evoke individual interpretations resulting in critical reflections.


Possible selections will include:

Byron's dramatic work "Manfred."  This will be joined by the music of Tchaikovsky Symphony in B minor, Op. 58 and Schumann Overture & incidental music, Op. 115. Coleridge's fragment "Kubla Khan." This will be joined by the music of Griffes The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 8, A. 91. Yevteshenko's "Babi Yar" side by side with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13.Dante's "Inferno" joined by LisztDante Symphony (Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia), for orchestra, S. 109, Rachmaninov Francesca da Rimini, Opera, Op. 25, Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Symphonic Fantasy for Orchestra in E minor, Op. 32, and Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43. 

"Faust" by Goethe and "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann joined by the music of Berlioz La Damnation de Faust, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, H. 111 (Op. 24), Gounod, Liszt Faust Symphony (I & II), for orchestra or soloist, male chorus & orchestra, S. 108 and Piano Sonata in B minorS. 178, and Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E flat major ("Symphony of a Thousand"). "Don Juan" pieces of literature by Byron, Moliere (Dom Juan), and Shaw (Man and Supereman). These works will be joined by the music of Strauss Don Juan, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 20, Mozart, Don Giovanni and Liszt Reminiscences de Don Juan (I & II), for piano (after Mozart: Don Giovanni), S. 418. 

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