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Music 41: Gustav Mahler composer seminar with Professor Steve Swayne.

This course is an in-depth study of the nine completed symphonies, numerous songs, and other works of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), who exclaimed to fellow symphonist Jean Sibelius that “die Symphonie muss wie die Welt sein. Sie muss alles umfassen” (“The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything”). We will also examine Mahler’s years in America (1907-11) as well as his impact on other 20th-century composers and performers. Dist: ART; WCult: W.

Continuing the Mahler theme, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will play Mahler's second symphony in the Spring term 2010. And in Spring 2011, the Music FSP will be going to Vienna, where Mahler lived and worked.

Music 40: European Patronage and the Creation of Musical Masterworks, 1600-1820. with Professor William Summers. Noble and ecclesiastical patrons supported most of the leading European composers of the 17th and 18th centuries and underwrote an astonishing number of musical masterpieces. This course examines the intricate connections between patrons, composers and works: how did the taste, sensibility, political views, and religious beliefs of patrons shape the genre, style, form, and performance history of the works they commissioned? Course work combines close analysis of works with readings in cultural and social history. Dist: ART; WCult: W.

Music 9: Music and Technology: Music Visualization with Dr. Ramona Behravan. This course will explore digital creativity through music with accompanying visual imagery. Students will study perceptual and neurological phenomena related to audio-visual composition, such as synaesthesia and emotion, as well as digital techniques and software for audio-visual creativity. Particular emphasis will be placed on the relationship between sound and visual media through studying the works of pioneers such as Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye, as well as critical appraisal of music videos, film music, live concert visuals, and dance. Assessment will be via participation in discussions, two assignments and a final project of original work to be shown in the class. Dist: TAS.

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