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Music and Art Series Impressionism, Post-Impressionism/Expressionism, and Primitivism

Instructor: Dr. Thomas M. Cimarusti Associate Professor of Musicology, Bower School Representative, FGCU Scholars

3-week series Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11:30 am

February 9, 16 & 23, 2021

$95 members/$118 non members

Class meets at 900 Dunlop Rd

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Throughout music history, music and art have been often intertwined in ways that have created some of the greatest masterpieces in Western Music. How have composers used art as inspiration? And how did such composers transform musical language in order to musically replicate artistic styles? This series part examines the works of artists/composers associated with various artistic movements.

Class lectures/discussions will focus on how composers constructed new musical means in order to musically paint a particular artistic style. For each of the following sections, students are encouraged (but not required) to listen and examine a work of art and to listen to a representative musical example.

• Impressionism: Claude Monet (Sunrise) and Claude Debussy (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)

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• Post-Impressionism: Vincent van Gogh (Starry Night) and Francis Poulenc (Gloria); Expressionism: Edvard Munch (The Scream) and Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot lunaire)

• Primitivism: Paul Gauguin (The Young Ladies of Avignon) and Igor Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring)

About the Instructor:

Dr. Thomas M. Cimarusti is an Associate Professor of Music History at Florida Gulf Coast University. He has lectured at various campuses across the country including Florida State University, Utah Valley University, and Texas Tech University. With research interests in 18th- and 19th-century music, Dr. Cimarusti has presented conference papers on Mozart, Beethoven, Italian opera, and chamber music.