HS 180: Revolution in the Arts

Syllabus



week one -- enlightenment to romanticism

Monday
(9/2)
Introduction:
The theme of order and chaos as it relates to this course
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Art:
Neoclassicism in Art - David
Reading:
R, Introduction, chapters 1 & 3; Art  # 1
Afternoon:
Neoclassicism continued
Tuesday
(9/3)
Art: Romantic Classicism and Pure Romanticism in French painting -  Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix Image File:
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Reading:
Art #s 2-3
Afternoon:
Watch Amadeus
Wednesday
(9/4)
Music:
Classicism and opera - Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
Reading:
Music # 1-2
Afternoon:
Watch The Marriage of Figaro
Thursday
(9/5)
Music:
Discuss The Marriage of Figaro
Classicism and the symphony - Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5
Reading:
Music #3
Friday
(9/6)
Music: Romanticism - Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt
Reading:
Music #s 4-5
1:00 PM
Meet with Bonnie Stapleton about oral presentations





week two -- mid-century to fin-de-siecle

Monday
(9/9)
Art:
Realism and Impressionism - Millet, Daumier, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir
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Reading:
R, Ch. 4, #s4-6
Paper:
Short paper on The Marriage of Figaro due
Afternoon:
Realism and Impressionism continued
Tuesday
(9/10)
Art:
Post Impressionist Art - Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin
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Reading:
R, pp 117-129; Art #7-8
Wednesday
(9/11)

Music:
High Romanticism and Realism in music- Verdi and Wagner
Reading:
Music  #s 6-7
Thursday
(9/12)
Music:
The End of Romanticism inmusic - Mahler and Debussy
Reading:
Music #s 8-9
Friday
(9/13)
Presentations:
Goya, Constable, Turner, Friedrich, the Figaro legend, program music, the romantic miniature in music, Italian opera





week three -- the emergence of modernism

Monday
(9/16)
Art:
Picasso and the Development of Cubism
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Reading:
L, chapters 3 & 4; Art, # 9
Paper:
2-page art history paper due
Tuesday
(9/17)
Art:
Early Twentieth Century ExpressionistArt- Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Kandinsky, Klee
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Reading:
Art #s 10-11
Wednesday
(9/18)
Music:
The Beginning of a Revolution in music- Stravinsky
Reading:
Music #s 10-11
Thursday
(9/19)
Music:
Expressionism in Music - Schoenberg, Berg(Wozzeck)
Special Visit and Performance by the Da Vinci String Quartet - Germaine Tailleferre, String Quartet (1918)
Reading:
Music #s 12-14
Afternoon:
Watch Wozzeck
Friday
(9/20)
Presentations:
Realism in Art and the Music of Verdior Wagner; Impressionism in Art and Music; Cubism in Art and theMusic of Stravinsky; Expressionism in Art and Music





week four -- between the wars

Monday
(9/23)
Art:
Art Between the Wars - Classicism, Surrealism, Geometric Abstrastion
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Reading:
L, chapters 3 & 4; Art #s 12-13      
Afternoon:
Visiting Professor Pete Peterson - "On Dada and BirdWatching: A Field Guide to Visual and Aural Recognition."
Preparation:
Look up the following: Filippo Marinetti, TristanTzara, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Leon Theramin.  Be sureto be familiar with the terms Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.
Tuesday
(9/24)
Music:
Music Between the Wars - Hindemith and Bartók
Reading:
Music #s 15-16
Wednesday
(9/25)

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