Learning Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this module should be able to:
Show familiarity with a range of seventeenth-century operatic texts and music;
Recognise how Venetian opera developed and exported a codified set of conventional character- and scene-types over time;
Demonstrate an understanding of different theoretical approaches to these narrative conventions, including those related to gender, reception history, and formal analysis;
Appraise key concepts of narrative convention more generally.
Indicative Module Content:
Baroque opera, especially in Venice.
Reception history.
Narrative and narrative convention, especially in Baroque opera (and especially Venetian Baroque opera).
Interpretive close reading and listening (of/to music, text, and music-with-text).
Formal analysis (musical, textual, musico-textual).