LECTURES
Lectures will be held twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday,
from 10:00–10:50am, in Campbell
Recital Hall (located in the Music Building).
Required Texts (available at the Stanford
Bookstore):
(1) Libretto for The Magic Flute
(2) The Pelican Shakespeare Othello, ed. Gerald
Eades Bentley
(3) English National Opera Guide, Verdi's Otello
(4) Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra (in: The
Portable Nietzsche)
(5) Course Reader
It is also strongly recommended that you purchase the following DVDs:
(1) Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Flute
(2) Franco Zeffirelli, Otello
(3) Tim Blake Nelson, O
(4) Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
WEEK
1: INTRODUCTION
Tuesday, September 27: Introduction to the course (Hinton/Stephens)
Readings: None
WEEKS
1 and 2: MOZART
Thursday, September 29: What is Opera? (Hinton)
Readings: (1) Selection from The New Grove Dictionary
of Opera (in reader)
(2) Libretto for The Magic Flute
Listening: Mozart, The Magic Flute (iTunes)
Tuesday, October 4: Drama and Music (Hinton/Stephens)
Readings: (1) Libretto for The Magic Flute
(2) R. Milnes, "'Singspiel' and Symbolism" (in reader)
(3) "A Public for Mozart's Last Opera" (in reader)
Listening: Mozart, The Magic Flute (iTunes)
WEEKS
2 and 3: BERGMAN
Wednesday, October 5: Screening of Bergman's The Magic Flute (8:00pm, location TBA)
Thursday, October 6: Bergman's Vision of The Magic Flute
(Stephens)
Viewing: Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute
Reading: Excerpt from Bergman, Images: My Life in Film
(in reader)
Monday, October 10: Screening of Bergman's The Magic Flute (8:00pm, location TBA)
Tuesday, October 11: Opera as Movie (Hinton)
Viewing: Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute
WEEK 3: LIVE PERFORMANCE
Thursday, October 13: Pre-performance discussion
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 14–16: West Bay Opera Preformance
Required attendance of live performance of The Magic Flute at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto.
Friday, 8pm: Dr. McIntyre's sections
Saturday, 8pm: Dr. Draughon's and Dr. Clayton's sections
Sunday, 2pm: Dr. Medin's sections
WEEK
4: SHAKESPEARE, OTHELLO
Tuesday, October 18: A Venetian Moor in 16th-Century
London (Stephens)
Reading: Shakespeare, Othello
Thursday, October 20: The Seduction of Language (Stephens)
Reading: Shakespeare, Othello
WEEKS
5–6: VERDI, OTELLO
Monday, October 24:
Assignment Due: Paper #1 must be uploaded to Coursework no later than 11:55pm
Tuesday, October 25: Why Shakespeare? (Hinton)
Reading: J. Kerman, "Otello: Traditional Opera and the image
of Shakespeare" (in reader)
Reading: ENO Guide, Verdi's Otello
Listening: Verdi, Otello (iTunes)
Thursday, October 27: Musical Form and Dramatic Character
(Hinton)
Reading: ENO Guide, Verdi's Otello
Listening: Verdi, Otello (iTunes)
Sunday, October 30: Screening of Zeffirelli’s Otello (8:00pm, location TBA)
Tuesday, November 1: Film-Opera (Hinton)
Viewing: Franco Zeffirelli, Otello
Assignment Due: Project Proposal must be uploaded to Coursework no later than 11:55pm
WEEK
6: O
Wednesday, November 2: Screening of O (8:00pm, location TBA)
Thursday, November 3: Seeing Othello (Stephens)
Viewing: O
WEEKS
7-8: NIETZSCHE, ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
Tuesday, November 8: Nietzsche in 19th- and
20th-century Thought (Stephens)
Readings: (1)
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, sections TBA
(2) Introduction to Thus Spake Zarathustra (in course reader)
Thursday, November 10: Music as a Vehicle of Transcendence
(Stephens)
Readings: (1)
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, sections TBA
WEEK 8: STRAUSS, ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
Monday, November 14:
Assignment Due: Paper #2 must be uploaded to Coursework no later than 11:55pm
Tuesday, November 15: Program vs. Absolute Music: Different Modes of Listening?(Hinton)
Reading: John Williamson, "'Freely after Nietzsche'" (in reader)
Listening: Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra
(iTunes)
Thursday, November 17: The Relationship between Strauss’s Music and Nietzsche’s Text (Hinton)
Reading: John Williamson, "'Freely after Nietzsche'" (in reader)
Listening: Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra
(iTunes)
WEEK 9: NO CLASSES (THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY)
WEEK 10: KUBRICK, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Monday, November 28: Screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey (8:00pm, location TBA)
Tuesday, November 29: Creating a Popular Image of Man Striving for the Stars—and the Significance of this Vision for the Postmodern World (Stephens)
Reading: David Hughes, "The Complete Kubrick" (in reader)
Viewing: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Thursday, December 1: Music in the Movies (Hinton)
Viewing: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Friday, December 2:
Assignment Due: Project Analysis must be uploaded to Coursework no
later than 11:55pm
WEEK 11: PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, December 6: Project Presentations
Thursday, December 8: Project Presentations
FINAL EXAMINATION:
Paper prompts will be distributed on Friday, December 9.
Exams are due Wednesday, December 14 by noon.
