Words and Music (MUSL 218)

Whether you're a literature buff eager to learn more about classical music or a music nut hoping to get in better touch with great literature, this is your dream course come true. Thanks to the Provost's Initiative on Team-Teaching, here's a semester full of poetry and prose which have inspired musical settings, now brought together with those settings in the interdisciplinary format that is MUSL 218.

With both an English and a music professor in the classroom for each session of this course, the intellectual sparks will fly. It's exciting enough to discuss the beauties of Emily Dickinson's poetry alone; combine that with the exploration of Aaron Copland's setting of Dickinson, and you've got the makings of an even greater adventure. And look at these other dynamic duos: John Dryden and George Frideric Handel, Walt Whitman and Paul Hindemith, Ben Jonson and Benjamin Britten, James Agee and Samuel Barber, William Carlos Williams and Steve Reich, and many more.The great virtue of team-teaching is the opportunity it affords students to experience not one but two fields of knowledge. At the same time learning is enriched because the professors are learning from each other! Come celebrate the uniqueness of music and literature and also their harmonious interaction.

"The class was great. Both professors were very helpful outside the class and stimulated good discussion in class."
--former student, on a course evaluation form

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


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