Students learn about the importance of gestures in baroque opera through viewing and practicing them.
Goals:
- to teach students that baroque opera involved body movement as well as music, and that physical motion and musical material were intimately linked in the 17th and 18th centuries
- to demonstrate how stage gesture can affect one's interpretation of an opera scene.
Class: Music 97a: Music History and Repertory: Medieval to Baroque
Introduction/Background: This class...
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