Universität Wien

160071 SE Italian seventeenth-century opera from its Florentine origins to the late Viennese productions (2019S)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 05.03. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 19.03. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 02.04. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 30.04. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 14.05. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 28.05. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 18.06. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01
  • Tuesday 25.06. 12:30 - 15:45 Hörsaal 2 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will highlight the most important features of the operatic genre from its Florentine origins until the beginning of the 18th century, and through a number of case studies will offer a wide vision of the newborn operatic phenomenon. It will take into consideration the main operatic experiences in Florence, Mantua, Rome, Venice and finally Vienna, from the intermedi for La pellegrina (1587) until the death of the emperor Leopold I (1705). It will give the students the tools to approach the main elements of a Baroque opera:
- the authors (life and style)
- the dramatic text (literary features and sources)
- the music (harmonic and melodic features, instruments, topoi like lamenti, lullabies, war songs, etc.)
- the sources (manuscript and printed librettos and score, set designs, costumes drawings, etc.)

Assessment and permitted materials

The students will be required to make a presentation as a midterm test, plus a final text (Seminar Arbeit) on a topic selected together with the lecturer during the reception time. Each of these works must contain results of a first hand research.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students must be able to read music and to write in English.
Students interested in research and primary sources are kindly invited to apply for this course.

Examination topics

The topic for each presentation and final text will be chosen according to the student's main interests and her/his own personal attitude, among the following:
Works and the sources: libretto (dramaturgy, poetry, structures and meanings); score (style, music, structures languages)...
People: librettists, singers, composers, emperors, architects...
Performance-related elements: coreographies, sceneries...

Reading list

Fundamentals.
Extracts from the works by Tim Carter, Lorenzo Bianconi, Ellen Rosand and Herbert Seifert.
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC04352254
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC01435851
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC00456080
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC12084983
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC00445451

Specific bibliography will be given at the end of every lesson, and on the occasion of the making of the papers and final texts.

Association in the course directory

BA (2016): BAC
BA (2011): B08, B10
MA: M01, M03, M04, M05, M07, M12, M13, M14

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