Learning Outcomes
To approach the meaning of the "total work of art", to establish the relations of music to other forms of art (visual, theater, dance), to familiarize oneself with the problem and role of music in the culture of the 20th century.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course progresses in ten unities:
1. The peculiar relation between the painter and the stage in the 20th century. Differentiation from the 19th century and example for the 20th century.
2. The meaning of the scenic creation for the painter. The relation between important artists with musicians and choreographers in the years before the war.
3. Russian ballets
4. Futurists, “mechanical world”
5. Russian constructivism
6. Construction, functionality and the conception of space
7. Suisse ballets: Leger and Picabia
8. Abstraction: 1920-1930
9. 1920-1950: Different aspects of reality
10. 1950 until today: Music-dance-scenic image as a “Total Work”
Keywords
Music, opera, dance, ballet, musical theatre, regie, settings
Additional bibliography for study
1. Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo, fondata da Silvio D'Amico, Bd. 1-11, Romo 1954-68.
2. Bretter die Welt bedeuten. Entwürfe zum Theaterdekor und zum Bühnenkostüm in fünf Jahrhunderten, von Ekhart Berckerhagen & Gretel Wagner. Dietricch Reiner Verlag Berlin 1978.
3. Petzet Detta & Petzet Michael, Die Richard Wagner-Bühne König Ludwigs II. Mönchen, Bayreyth-München 1970.
4. Bablet Denis, Les Révolutions scénique du XXe siècle, Paris 1975.
5. Bühnenbild und bildende Kunst, Ausstellungskatalog, Iserlohn 1959 (Curjel Hans, Moholy-Naggys Arbeiten für Berliner Bühnen).
6. Die Maler und das Theater im 20. Jahrhundert, Austellungskatalog, Frankfurt 1986.