Mozart (MUSC 118)

Some people like Mozart's music because they discovered it in the movie Amadeus. Others like it because it's so pretty to put on in the background when they're doing homework. Still others enjoy the ways in which the music creates a sense of another world, another place, another time. But very few people really think about how to listen to Mozart's music in order to get as much as possible out of the experience. If you've ever wondered what makes Mozart tick, how he goes from one idea to the next, why everything he does sounds so marvelous, then MUSC 118--Mozart is the course for you.

The entire class is based on a very simple premise: Every movement of every Mozart piece is an adventure, a journey that requires good, solid map-reading skills. Mozart, then, is a course about navigating classical music. It is about understanding the potent principle that listening to music with greater technical awareness and sophistication actually helps us to feel more emotions. In this class, there is no conflict between the analytical mind and the feeling heart; on the contrary, the two attributes, which every person possesses, work "in concert" with each other all semester long.

"Without a doubt, one of the best classes on campus."
--former student, on a course evaluation form

Credit?
Arts and Science--elective
Engineering--humanities
Peabody--humanities

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