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Gain an appreciation and understanding of the typical features of Italian opera, classical music, and performance art, including the instruments used and types of singing.
Understand the revolutionary relationships created between music, drama, and storytelling in opera.
Build on your learning and explore how performances have changed over time.
Compare the social and cultural influences of each work.
Learn about the technologies and innovations behind opera performances, the choir, the instruments and the structure of the stage.
Track composition, legacy, and importance over time and current relevance.
4 months. 3 - 5 hours per week suggested.
5 high-quality virtual courses
Take an aural journey through Europe from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth centuries, exploring world-renowned works in classical, orchestral, and operatic music to create cultural and social context for the circumstances of each performance.
You will begin your tour in 1607, Matua, Italy for Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, long considered one of the earliest and most important examples of opera.
It will also focus on Monteverdi's life and work as a Renaissance court musician.
Travel to the 1742th century for Messiah by the German composer George Frederic Handel, which premiered in Dublin in April XNUMX.
Popular during the Baroque era, Handel gained popularity for his oratorios and unique operatic techniques.
Next, trek east to Vienna to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's XNUMXth Symphony, with its famous choral finale that will change our view of orchestral music forever.
One last train ride takes him to the City of Lights, for the Paris premiere of Héctor Berlioz's five-movement symphony, Symphonie Fantastique, before culminating his journey in 1913 for the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring. Igor Stravinsky in Paris, one of the most challenging and rewarding ballets ever written.
Examining these works, both individually and collectively, Thomas Forrest Kelley, professor of music at Morton B.
Knafel at Harvard, will guide you through an explanation of the arts, from the key features of classical plays and baroque opera to character development on stage and through music.
to orchestral music techniques and choreography.
Each course is designed to give you a closer look at each work of art from the cultural context and circumstances of the performance at the time of the premiere, combining passions in art, music, society, and history.
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