VC 620F NEC Song Institute: Song Lab III: French
This course is designed as an intensive, immersive experience in the study of French song in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A departure from the traditional song survey, the class provides students with the opportunity to focus on a chosen body of work and investigate it in a vigorous and detailed way. Students will experience a multifaceted approach to song analysis, merging performance and scholarship. exploring poems through linguistic, structural, and sonic lenses, producing theoretical analysis, and reading articles on subjects related to cultural and social history. In addition to in-class performance coachings, students will receive in-depth, personalized instruction from members of the voice, theory, and musicology departments. Our course of study will include two modules, the first devoted to Fauré and Verlaine, the second devoted to Poulenc and the Surrealists. A final, video-recorded lecture recital related to the musical legacy of Josephine Baker and the Harlem Renaissance in Paris will be due at the semester's end.
Prerequisite
(Instructor Permission)