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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2025 |
Registration ID | MUSCH225B001 |
Course Title | Music, Modernism and the Avant Garde |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Music |
Instructor | Fitz Gibbon,Elaine |
Times and Days | MW 11:30am-12:55pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2354 Course assembles music by Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith, Weill, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and many others, considered through reactionary priorities of modernist aesthetics. Topics include the search for order and control; music and the state; music, film, and electronic technologies; and new roles for composers, performers, and listeners. The class is organized around some two dozen important works, pieces chosen for their historical influence and for their acute formulation of musical and aesthetic problems. ; Prerequisite(s): Music 110, 111, or instructor consent Humanities (Hav: HU) |
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