On Friday, March 2nd Dr Jonathan Patterson, together with Dr Jonathan Williams (Director of College Music, St Hilda's College) and the Faculty of Music, will present a unique seminar: 'Musical and Literary Approaches to the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau'.
Rameau’s works were products of a formative period in Western culture, demonstrating a sensibility which stands apart from the Italo-German practices of his contemporaries Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach and Handel. The twenty-eight surviving stage works in the Rameau corpus are among the most interesting and aesthetically complex theatrical forms of the period.
Join us, as we unlock some of the enigmas presented by Rameau’s works through the integration of literary and musical analytical techniques. This combined approach will bring us closer to these extraordinary works and help us to communicate them more fluently to a modern audience.
Please, see here for the full description of the seminar.
This event is free and open to all.
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