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הסמינר יעסוק בעולם הילד, בילדי, ובדימויים הקשורים לילדות, כפי שאלה מובעים במוזיקה.
הכוונה היא לא למוזיקה הכתובה לילדים ופונה אליהם, אלא לייחודה של המוזיקה לעורר בנו את עולם הילדות של העבר— העולם של הדמיון, של השינה והחלום, הראייה המוגזמת וזו הרגישה לקטן ולמיניאטורי, עולם הצבעים וכוחות העל—ובמוזיקה להבנותו מחדש.
The seminar explores the world of the child as it is constructed by and manifested in music. Some of the themes that will be dealt with are: the child and the world of fantasy, the reality of the dream world, the miniature and the gigantic, the significance of colors
The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
Name of Course: Childhood in Opera
Semester II, 2017-2018
Seminar, 2 hour weekly course
The course will be held in English.
Name of Lecturer: Professor Michal Grover Friedlander
Email: groverm@post.tau.ac.il
Reception time
office hours by appointment
תיאור הקורס
הסמינר יעסוק בעולם הילד, בילדי, ובדימויים הקשורים לילדות, כפי שאלה מובעים במוזיקה.
הכוונה היא לא למוזיקה הכתובה לילדים ופונה אליהם, אלא לייחודה של המוזיקה לעורר בנו את עולם הילדות של העבר— העולם של הדמיון, של השינה והחלום, הראייה המוגזמת וזו הרגישה לקטן ולמיניאטורי, עולם הצבעים וכוחות העל—ובמוזיקה להבנותו מחדש.
Seminar Description
The seminar explores the world of the child as it is constructed by and manifested in music. Some of the themes that will be dealt with are: the child and the world of fantasy, the reality of the dream world, the miniature and the gigantic, the significance of colors
Grade Calculation and Course Requirements
Attendance, participation, class presentation - 30% of final grade
Seminar paper OR referat (short 5 page paper) - 70% of final paper
Course Topics
Constructions of childhood
Ariès, P. (1979). Centuries of Childhood (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books).
Brown, M., ed. (2002). Picturing Children: Constructions of Childhood Between Rousseau and Freud (Burlington: Ashgate).
Poetics of childhood
Bachelard, G. (1971). The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos (Boston: Beacon Press).
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1983). “On Fairy-Stories.” In The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays, C. Tolkien, ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 109–161.
The erotic child
Boa, E. (2012). “Innocent Monsters: The Erotic Child in Early Modernism.” In Modernist Eroticisms, A.K. Schaffner, and S. Weller, eds. (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 23–43.
In music:
Sharp, I. (2000). Classical Music’s Evocation of the Myth of Childhood (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press).
Poizat, M. (1992). The Angel’s Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
The mute child
Bellini’s Norma
Puccini, Madama Butterfly
Britten, Peter Grimes
Menotti, The Medium
The singing child
Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Knoepflmacher, U.C. (2005). “The Hansel and Gretel syndrome: Survivorship fantasies and parental desertion.” Children’s Literature 33, 171–184.
Enchantment
Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Abbate, C. (2003b). “Outside the Tomb.” In In Search of Opera (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 185–246.
Adorno, “Bourgeois Opera”
Starobinski, Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
Manuel de Falla’s ‘El Retablo de Maese Pedro’
Dommering-van Rongen, L. (2014). “The Musical Personality of Don Quixote: Manuel de Falla’s ‘El Retablo de Maese Pedro.’” In “Music’s Obedient Daughter”: The Opera Libretto from Source to Score, S. Lichtenstein, ed. (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 359–380.
Worlds of color, toys, animals and the inanimate
Baudelaire’s “Philosophy of Toys,”
Benjamin’s “Old Toys,” “The Cultural History of Toys,” and “Toys and Play,”
Segel, H.B. (1995). Pinocchio’s Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons and Robots in Modernist and Avant-garde Drama (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
Kleist, H. von (1972). “On the Marionette Theatre.” The Drama Review: TDR 16, 22–26.
Tillis, S. (1992). Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet: Puppetry as a Theatrical Art (New York: Greenwood Press).
Stroud’s The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Color.
Knussen and Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Bodmer, G.R. (2009). “Sendak into Opera: ‘Wild Things’ and ‘Higglety Pigglety Pop!’” The Lion and the Unicorn 16, 167–175.
The Cunning Little Vixen’: Leoš Janáček, Max Brod
Sheppard, J. (2010). “How the Vixen Lost Its Mores: Gesture and Music in Janáček’s Animal Opera.” Cambridge Opera Journal 22, 147–174.
Fairy tale
Zipes, J., ed. (2015). The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Warner, M. (1994). From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (New York: Noonday Press).
Tatar, M. (1992). Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Albright, D. (1989). Stravinsky: The Music Box and the Nightingale (New York: Gordon and Breach).
Stravinsky, Rossignol,
Knussen Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Chin, Alice in Wonderland
Henze, Pollicino or New Adventures of Tom Thumb
Dove, The Adventures of Pinocchio
Lefanu, The Green Children
Ficarra and Whittington, The Empress’s Feet
Disturbing presence
Michal Grover Friedlander, “Setting the Stage, Staging the Voice: On Directing Weill and Brecht’s Der Jasager”
Grover Friedlander, M. (2014). “Transformations of the Killing of a Boy: Weill’s and Brecht’s ‘Der Jasager.’” In “Music’s Obedient Daughter”: The Opera Libretto from Source to Score, S. Lichtenstein, ed. (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 381–404. “Transformation of a Killing of a Boy”
Well and Brecht, Der Jasager
Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande,
Berg’s Wozzeck
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
Rorem’s Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters.
Ikuma Dan, Yuzuru
Deutsch, M. (2000). “Ceremonies of Innocence: Men, Boys and Women in ‘The Turn of the Screw.’” In Henry James on Stage and Screen, J.R. Bradley, ed. (New York: Palgrave), 72–83.
Hindley, C. (1990). “Why Does Miles Die? A Study of Britten’s the ‘Turn of the Screw.’” Musical Quarterly 74, 1–17.
Performativity
Britten’s Let’s Make an Opera.