1M16 Music as the Mirror of History

Tutor/Facilitator Jim Pribble

When
Date: on/from Mon 29 May 2023 to Mon 21 Aug 2023
Frequency: Weekly
Class time: 9:30-11:30

Delivered Online

Other information

 

This course has as its core videos recorded by The Great Courses.  The Lecturer is Dr Robert Greenberg – Music Historian-in Residence at San Francisco Performances. This course comprises about 50% history, 50% music and 100% superb presentation.

At the most general level, a composer’s environment shapes his musical style, meaning the generalised musical vocabulary and expressive parameters of his work (historically, composers were men, hence, “his”). But sometimes, specific historical events shape the creation and content of a piece of music, and that’s what this course is about: music written in direct response to contemporary historical events. As such, this will be a course about connections: the connections between composers and historical events—events that shaped the composers’ lives and inspired the creation of the works under study.

The composers and their works featured in these twentyfour 45-minute lectures are:  Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz/de L’Isle, Chopin, Glinka, Strauss (Sr), Brahms, Gottschalk, Verdi, Wagner, Dvorak, Balakirev, Janacek Rimsky-Korsakov, Holst, Berg, Shostakovich, Copland, Gorecki and Crumb.

Two episodes will be shown at each class session.

REQUIREMENTS: Interest in history and music

TUTOR: Jim, a retired research biologist, has been an active participant in U3APP by being a member of the Committee of Management for 3 years, a member of the COVID-19 Working Group and tutor for more than 15 courses covering history, music, language evolution and other disciplines.

How to Enrol

On-line: after bookings have opened

On-line enrolments are preferred as this significantly reduces the amount of back-office work for our volunteers.

  • Login to the U3APP.org.au website.
  • Go to the Courses & Enrolling page.
  • Scroll down to find the course that you are interested in.
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    • Click on “Book for this course or event”.
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  • OR is the course shown as FULL?
    • Click on WAITLIST.

Paper Enrolment Form: before bookings open for First Semester

  • Obtain a paper Enrolment Form either from the Office or by printing an online copy available here.
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The start date for acceptance of paper Enrolment Forms for first semester is published on the U3APP website and in the e-Bulletin. Enrolment Forms received before this date are treated as though they had been received on the start date (ie there is no advantage to be gained by submitting early). On the start date and thereafter, paper Enrolment Forms are numbered in order of receipt.  Paper Enrolment forms are processed by U3APP volunteers on the same day as on-line bookings.

If your enrolment is successful, you will receive a confirmation email.  Please check your Junk/Spam folders as these automatically-generated emails often finish up there.

If your enrolment is unsuccessful,  you will receive an email telling you that you have been waitlisted.

Via the Office: after bookings have opened

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