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Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Venice

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Music and Poetry in Robert Schumann's Lieder

Music of the Second Viennese School

Post-Tonal French Music and Thought

A Mordent on Modernism: Analytic Perspectives of Post-Tonal Music

The Chamber Music of George Crumb

The Music of Steve Reich

Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Venice

The Music of Igor Stravinsky

The Music of Messiaen

The Operas of Alban Berg

The Operas of Puccini

American Experimentalism: Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, and John Cage

Music and the U.S. Mexico Vogue, 1920–1950

Music, Identity, and Politics in the U.S., 1890s-1930s

Mozart, Opera Seria, and the Traditions that Shaped his Works

The Early Requiem Mass in Europe and Latin America

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea: The Poppea Project

Music and the Sacred in Seventeenth-Century Rome: Motet, Oratorio, Opera

Narratology and the Lied

The Patronage of Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Vienna

Richard Strauss and the Twentieth Century

The Romantic Song Cycle

Sacred Music and the Counter-Reformation in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Rome, Venice, and Vienna

Dr. Sara Pecknold

This course explores the wealth of sacred music composed in Venice throughout the seventeenth century. Course discussions begin with the composers of the Basilica di San Marco, including Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, and Francesco Cavalli. Different types of sacred music-making in the Serene Republic are explored: ecclesiastical, confraternal, monastic, domestic, and pedagogical (i.e., at the Venetian ospedali). The course includes a discussion of early modern music theory and pedagogy, in order to train students to analyze seventeenth-century music in a historically sensitive manner.

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