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Course Proposal: MUSC 289

Course Proposal

The Sounds of War and Revolution, 1750-1850

MUSC 289

as part of the Cluster

War, Revolution and Culture ! Transatlanti" #ers$e"tives, 1750!1850%

proposed by

Dr. Annegret Fauser

Professor of Musi

Depart!ent of Musi

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Course S&lla'us

S"o$e of Course

Musi has played a signifiant role in ars and re3olutions throughout 4estern history.

Songs and !arhes rallied and !obili5ed soldiers and re3olutionaries6 !usi for!ed part

of state ere!onies# 3itory elebrations and funerals6 !usial or7s pro3ided ani!portant language to o!!uniate re3olutionary ideals e3en in politially oppressi3e

en3iron!ents6 and !usial or7s ser3ed to o!!e!orate and reflet upon ar and

re3olution# hether in battle sy!phonies# opera# or songs.

n this ourse# e eplore !usis 3arious roles in these historial and politial

iru!stanes. 4e ill address theories about !usis physial and e!otional i!pat#study the self+onsious use of !usi by go3ern!ents# !ilitary and re3olutionaries to

further their ourse# and e ill ea!ine !usi as a ultural produt that reflets ideasabout ar and re3olution ithin 3arious ultural ontets.

,he sub;et !atter of this ourse addresses both !usi and ulture fro!

eperiential# 3isual# aural# and perfor!ati3e perspeti3es# and therefore de!ands ao!bination of tetual# aural# and 3isual resoures. ,o this end# the !ulti!edia aess

pro3ided by utting+edge infor!ation tehnology# speifially eb aess to sound


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reordings# 3isual i!ages# and perfor!ane praties are an essential part of the students

learning. ,o foster ati3e learning# the ourse also relies on guided disussion in the

ourse assess!ent.

(earnin) *ut"o+es

Students enrolled in this ourse ill

enounter a rih body of !usi fro! a 3ariety of ritten and oral 4estern

traditions6

eplore a broad spetru! of !usial and ultural praties in the late eighteenth

and first half of the nineteenth enturies6

engage ritially ith !usi fro! that period# relating soni artifats to the history

and politis of ar and re3olution in both (orth A!erian and /uropean ontets6

learn to apply global# historial and loal perspeti3es to understanding sound in

ultural studies and speifially !usial ultures6

beo!e aare of issues of nationalis!# gender# rae# and 3iolene in both thereation and the reeption of !usi6

relate !usial prodution and onsu!ption to speifi politial and soial

ontets in /urope and (orth A!eria6

o!prehend historial distane by onfronting the differene in onte!porary

soni eperiene istening ?ui55es for eah of the to units of study: students ill identify and

ontetuali5e !usial piees heard fro! reordings


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S"hedule

4ee7 %: ntrodution

Beent soni representations of ar and re3olution in fil! as refletions of

onte!porary 3ies on ar and !usi

/a!ples:o Use of Sa!uel $arbersAdagio for StringsinPlatoon


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4ee7 %9: /duating Musiians for the (e Frenh Bepubli

,he founding of the (ational Conser3atoire of Musi and Dane is5t# the Austrian eeution of the "ungarian rebels# andFunrailles

4ee7 %E: Co!posers as Politial Ati3ists

iuseppe 1erdi# talian nationalis!# and the uses of opera

Bihard 4agner# the er!an re3olutionary

4ee7 %*: Soni Bepresentations of the Frenh and A!erian Be3olutions in the

,entieth Century

n art !usi: Franis Poulen#Le Dialogue des Car)lites


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Course Tet

,his ourse ill ha3e a ebsite as Htet.I ,he ebsite


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B Musial Bo!antiis! as Be3olution: "etor $erlio5: *rande Sy)phonie fun,&re

et trio)phale

Beuired Preparation:

. >isten to the first !o3e!ent#ar#he fun,&re# of the *rande Sy)phonie fun,&re et

trio)phale !usi ill be on+line on the ourse ebsite6 CD all nu!ber CD+'#*)9N

2. Bead E+page etrat fro! "etor $erlio5se)oirso7e. HParis: Center of ntelletual Fer!ent.I n .he "arly Ro)anti# "ra

!et0een Revolutions1 2345 and 2464. /dited by Aleander Binger# &2+8&./ngleood Cliffs# (.G.: Prentie "all# 99.

Sele"ted /i'lio)ra$h& on Reserve at the Musi" (i'rar&

. $oo7s and Sores:

$erlio5# "etor: .he e)oirs of 7e#tor !erlioz# edited and translated by Da3id Cairns

E' .$* .A& 2''2

$oyd# Malol!# ed.#usi# and the Fren#h Revolution2)'.& .M88 992

$ur7e# Bihard (.# H,heMarche funbrefro+ /eethoven to Mahler%, #h

dissertation, Cit& Universit& of e3 4or, 1991

Call (u!ber ibrary=6 M>2E' .$8) 99a

Ca!us# Baoul F.#Military Music of the American RevolutionCha$el ill6 Universit&of orth Carolina #ress, 197:

Call nu!ber ibrary=: M>&.C&*

Carter# ,i!# $8A8ozar1% 9Le nozze di Figaro#:Ca!bridge pera "andboo7s

E'.M9 C&& 98)

Craford# Bihard#A 7istory of to A)eri#a;s usi#al Lifeondon:

4.4.(orton# 2''=

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Craford# Bihard#An +ntrodu#tion to A)eri#a;s usi#ondon:

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Craford# Bihard# and Da3id P. MOay# $illia) !illings of !oston1 "ighteenth

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