Modernism in Music and Art
offered by Oxford University

Public University
1 Campus
Estd. 1096

Modernism in Music and Art
at
Oxford University
Overview

Knowledge and understanding of musical works in relation to contemporary art forms and the context of the twentieth century,

Duration	10 weeks
Total fee	₹19,453
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Modernism in Music and Art
at
Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

Modernism in Music and Art
at
Oxford University
Course details

Skills you will learn

ISMS

What are the course deliverables?

Selected composers in the history of twentieth-century modernist music and the visual arts
Describe and analyse their style and techniques based on close listening and reading
Identify the influences of major visual artists on their compositional praxis

More about this course

Explore in detail how selected composers created works based on their engagement with and involvement in the visual arts, especially painting; how their oeuvres are intricately linked to contemporary aesthetic theories, and the ways in which they required and generated new forms of performance, listening and types of graphic notation
The central aim is to develop an understanding of choice works, movements and -isms by focusing on the musical works themselves, the ways in which they were composed, and how they can be situated in twentieth century culture
The course aims to expand the participant's knowledge, engage in discussion, and spur on to discover new aspects of modernism (and beyond) in music and the visual arts in the long twentieth century
To learn about musical modernism in relation to the visual arts in the twentieth century

Modernism in Music and Art
at
Oxford University
Curriculum

Week 0

An Introduction to Teams ? Course orientation

Week 1

Modernism in Music and the Arts: Introduction and Key Concepts

Week 2

Debussy, Rachmaninov, and the question of representation

Week 3

Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Klee, and the New

Week 4

Stravinsky, Picasso, and Paris

Week 5

Messiaen, Schaeffer - mode, rhythm and musical object

Week 6

Varèse, Xenakis and the fusion of electroacoustic sound and the visual image

Week 7

Art informel, Abstract Expressionism and (open) form: Ligeti, Feldman, Cage

Week 8

Of music and gardens - Takemitsu's syntheses

Week 9

Music beyond the gallery - Sound Art's image

Week 10

Further connections and innovations; Weir - Klee; Ferneyhough - Bacon; LeFanu - Hokusai

Modernism in Music and Art
at
Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Joris de Henau

Joris de Henau, PhD (Dunelm), MPhil (Sorbonne), MA (KULeuven) is a musicologist and musician. He lectures in music at OUDCE, has tutored at Oriel College and taught at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle. His research interests include keyboard music, aesthetics, and global music history.