Category: Class Notes

Mozart, as a young child, had been paraded by his father from one end of Europe to the other as a novelty act. He could barely reach the keyboard but played as ...

Pietro Masscagni – Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) This is a one-act opera with (almost) uninterrupted action on a single set. It takes place in a Sicili...

Thinking about Rigoletto The Duke is the Bad Boy of this opera, but for all his villainy and mistreatment of women, he is a rather shallow character. His power ...

Giuseppi Verdi – Rigoletto Throughout his career Verdi had recurring problems with censorship. This was amplified by the fact that he had to contend with two di...

Bad Boys (of Opera) is a sequel to the earlier course Bad Girls (of Opera). For the most part the Bad Girls were bad in the sense that they had chosen to assert...

Last First Title Date Publisher Aliber Robert Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 7th Edition 2015 Palgrave Macmillan Baptist Edward The...

We all know there was an industrial revolution. And if we know nothing else, we have a sense that it involved steam engines and manufacturing and was at first c...

In class three we will start out discussing the idea of a Liederkreis (song cycle), a group of songs linked together by a common story line. We will discuss the...

In class four we will consider the surprisingly common usage of the linden tree as a symbol and metaphor in European writing; specifically the occurrence of a l...

Bibliography for Gustav Mahler: Songs and Symphonies Last First Title Date Publisher Ariès Philippe Centuries of Childhood 1965 Vintage Blaukopf Kurt Gustav Mah...