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College Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MSMUS 549 — Viennese Song and Fortepiano

2 credits
Spring
Audrey Axinn

Using Juilliard’s Viennese 1820s fortepiano, this performance seminar surveys lieder by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert with a focus on vocal and pianistic performance practice of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Class discussions place songs in historical context and explore the seminal keyboard writing of these great composers. Weekly in-class coachings emphasize natural speech-like syllabic inflection and classical notational practices, including note length, slurs, and ornamentation. Assigned readings and class discussions establish a framework for understanding performance practice scholarship, thus enabling students to locate resources to inform their own style-oriented interpretive choices. Students complete the class equipped with knowledge and techniques they can draw upon throughout their lives both as performers and teachers. Open to Graduate and 3rd and 4th-year undergraduate voice and piano majors.