GRMUS H651 — The Modernist Era

2 credits
Fall
Joel Sachs

An examination of the leading artistic and intellectual innovations of this period with concentration on the ascendancy of cultural modernism in general and musical modernism in particular. Subjects discussed include Impressionism, Expressionism, Decadence, Futurism, atonality, and varieties of experimental composition. Readings come from literary and theoretical texts as well as musical writings.