INTG 501T Performance & Analysis: Beethoven Violin Sonatas
How does music theory relate to performance? How can historical context transform our interpretations of music? This course explores these essential questions through Beethoven's ten sonatas for violin and piano. In addition to immersing themselves in theories of classical harmony and musical form, students will consider how contemporaneous works of art (music, literature, visual arts) help shape our understanding of this repertoire. They will then apply this knowledge to their own performances of select movements from the sonatas. Although the course is devoted to a specific repertoire, it offers a broadly applicable methodology for integrated musicianship (i.e., how history, theory, and performance inform one another). This course is open to students whose primary instrument is either violin or piano. Pre-Requisite: Instructor Permission.
Prerequisite
(Instructor Permission and Instructor Permission)