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MUSC 290 Structures of Music Theatre Units: 3.00
An introduction to the building blocks of music theatre, including music, book/libretto, staging, choreography, and voice. Drawing on examples from opera, operetta, musical theatre, cabaret, avant-garde, and vaudeville, and engaging in multi-media and live documents, students will delve deeply into questions about how music theatre works.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $100.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as DRAM 290/3.0.
NOTE Transportation/Live Performance: estimated cost $100.
NOTE This course is also listed/offered as DRAM 290/3.0.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion DRAM 290/3.0.
Equivalency MUTH 250/3.0*.
Course Equivalencies: DRAM290, MUSC290, MUTH250/3.0*
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the process of musicalization in music theatre.
- Analyze several prominent collaborative teams in music theatre creation history in North America, and describe their collaborative models.
- Distinguish how these processes differ in musical theatre, opera, and avant-garde genres.
- Deconstruct pieces of music theatre to explain how the combination of libretto, music, choreography, staging, design, renders a story.
- Analyze and assess production choices in live and recorded productions.
- Evaluate and compare examples of music theatre using disciplinary theoretical, analysis, and criticism skills.