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Undergraduate Course: Special History in Music: Wagner - Music, Philosophy and Culture (MUSI10050)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course provides an introduction to Richard Wagner's complex roles as philosopher, composer, revolutionary and cultural barometer in 19th and 20th Germany. Students will study selected operas by Wagner together with his polemical prose writings. They will place Wagner in context of 19th-century German culture and society, and will explore his posthumous reception, in particular under the Nazi and communist regimes. Additional topics to be covered include Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, anti-semitism and German nationalism.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Music 2B: Music and Ideas from Romanticism to the Late Twentieth Century (MUSI08061) OR Music 1D: Introduction to Compositional Techniques (MUSI08056)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least three Music courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students will become familiar with Wagner's operas. They will gain an understanding of his compositional style, his philosophies, and will develop an awareness of German culture and society in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Students will examine the roles that music can play in society and the impact that social and cultural currents can have on music. In particular students will develop an understanding of how music can be appropriated for political means.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.music.ed.ac.uk
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Seminars in Weeks 1-5 and 7-11.
KeywordsWagner,Opera,Music
Contacts
Course organiserDr Elaine Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)50 8248
Email:
Course secretaryMiss Carrie Lyall
Tel: (0131 6)50 2422
Email:
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