MUS 3320 - Topics in Baroque Music

Goals: Designed for non-majors and majors, the course will explore issues in 17th and 18th century music. The domination of language and its impact on opera, the age of Kepler, Newton, and Galileo running parallel to the new flowering of instrumental music; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.

Content: Representative compositions from Monteverdi to Bach and Handel.

Taught: Alternate years

Credits: 4