I'm curious if you know anybody who has taught a course, such as I am doing
now at Cal State Long Beach, on the history of concert programs. My work
on the rise of classical repertories has taken me into the history of
programs themselves, and to collecting a lot of them, c. 1750-1914, from
London, Paris, Leipzig, Vienna and a few other places. The program has a
history, but this is also a good way by which to teach the history of
musical taste. The course is focused upon the programs themselves, asking
what their frameworks were, what meanings were embedded in that structure,
and how they developed. The main themes is the shift from 'miscellany' to
'homogeneity' as the central principle behind programming, happening around
1870. Since it's for MA students, 8 of them, it's an ideal focus for
discussion.
So--has anybody tried this? Bill Weber
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