Monteverdi, L'Orfeo
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- Subject according curriculum
- Musical analysis
- Teachers
- Prof. Volkhardt Preuss
- Semester
- Wintersemester 2023/2024
- Scope
- Fridays, 9.00-10.30
- Room
- BP 11
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
The legendary figure of Orpheus is a symbol of the power of music. It went so far as to be allowed to bring Euridice back from the realm of the dead to the upper world of the living. We will examine how Claudio Monteverdi, in his opera of 1607, places all the artistic categories that have characterized the Renaissance since the 15th century at the service of this tremendous plot and shapes them into a musical drama that was to be groundbreaking by forming opposites into a new whole. The following themes:
- How does Monteverdi shape and change Ovid's original?
- How does he combine features of the Prima and Seconda Prattica?
- What role does the ancient understanding of tragedy play in this?
- A comparison with Peri's version and the Marian Vespers
- On the structural, dramatic and symbolic significance of dance, rhetoric, ornamentation and affect
- A look into the future: Gluck, Henze, Stravinsky, Offenbach- Literature
will be announced in the seminar
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Modules
- Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 1, Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 2, Musiktheoretisches/Musikwissenschaftliches Wahlmodul Instrumental, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)