Selected Topics (435-0-2)

Topic

Music Revivals

Instructors

Linda P Austern
847/491-5705
l-austern@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: E-mail instructor to arrange a meeting.
Specialist in Renaissance and baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and feminist theory, European iconography, music as related to visual art and the early history of science. Recipient of major fellowships and research grants, including American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College/Harvard University), and National Endowment for the Humanities. Author, Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance (Gordon and Breach, 1992), Music in English Life and Thought 1550-1650 (forthcoming); editor, Music, Sensation and Sensuality (Routledge, 2002), editor, Music and the Sirens (Indiana University Press, 2006). Author of numerous articles and reviews in books and such journals as Journal of the American Musicological Society, Modern Philology, Music and Letters, and Renaissance Quarterly.

Meeting Info

RCMA Lower Level 121: Mon, Wed 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This course considers nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century trends to revive older works, genres and styles of discontinued music, giving them new relevance to new audiences and performers. It is constructed as a series of brief vignettes of previous and ongoing revivals, and provides ample opportunity for students to explore individual relevant interests as performers, scholars, and consumers. It is divided into three parts which represent three prominent sub-fields of music revival: "early music" (historical art-music), folk music, and musical theater.

Registration Requirements

Juniors, seniors and graduate students.

Teaching Method

Discussion

Class Materials (Required)

To be announced