Short Courses 2011-2012
Fee: â‚Ź230 for 10 weeks Time/Dates: Thursday 7-9pm, 29th September to 1st December Venue: Western Gateway Building, Room G13, UCC Lecturer: Dr Eva McMullan, School of Music, UCC
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Introducing Medieval music
2.
Rituals and Royalty: music, power and ceremony in the Baroque Period
3.
The reign of Bach and Handel
4.
Introducing the symphony
5.
Mozart: the man and the artist
6.
An invitation to opera
7.
The last romantic: the piano music of Rachmaninoff
8.
Classical music in the Twentieth Century: tradition and innovation
9.
Understanding contemporary society through popular music
Understanding Music: An Introduction to Music Appreciation This course is designed to introduce contrasting musical styles and genres that have existed throughout the history of Western Classical Music. The aim of the course is to create an awareness of the particular musical styles themselves, and to identify the contrasting cultural contexts in which the selected works were composed. Each lecture will comprise of two parts. The first part will be dedicated to learning about a particular period in musical history, while the second part will include listening and responding to some of the most popular works from the genre being studied.
10. Music and other arts (visual art, architecture, literature)
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