Schedule of Daily Readings For Humanities II (Spring 2009)

Go here for the Top 40’s for Unit #6 (now available!)

Go here for the essay topics for the final exam (now posted!!)

Any announced changes in class will supersede this schedule. Note: For each of the major units, students should read all of the appropriate text volume; pages listed below are for your convenience in preparing for a particular day's lecture.

Date	Topic	Chapter	Music Examples
Jan 13	Introduction to the Arts of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries What are some of the new complexities facing the arts—and our understanding of them—as we move our study into the early modern world? What are some significant differences between the Renaissance and Baroque spirit in the arts?
15	Catholic Baroque Art How did Baroque styles advance the agenda of the Catholic Counter-Reformation? How did artists like Caravaggio and Bernini meet the requirements for the new religious art? How is the Baroque spirit reflected in music and literature?	25	Andrea Gabrieli, Ricercar à 4 Monteverdi, Orfeo, “Tu se’ morta” Vivaldi, “Spring,” mvmt. 1 from The Four Seasons
20	The Secular Baroque in the North How does Dutch vernacular art reflect the new science of observation and empiricism? How does Northern Baroque style differ from Italian? What makes the Northern style still “Baroque”? How did Bach's reputation change after his death? What factors lead to this change?	26	J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, mvmt. 3 J.S. Bach, Fugue No. 5 in D Major
22	Absolute Power and the Baroque What is “Baroque classicism” and how did it serve as the perfect vehicle for the absolutist ideology of the French aristocracy? Quiz on Chapter 28 due January 27	27	Purcell, “Dido’s Lament”
27	The Enlightenment in England What factors led to the “Age of Reason”? How did the Enlightenment challenge absolutist monarchies? What new literary and artistic styles emerged during this period? How do they reflect Enlightenment ideals?	28	Handel, Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
29	The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent What characterizes the Rococo style of Art? Why would that style and the extravagances of the French court draw the censure of the philosophes? How did 18^th-century instrumental compositions reflect a concern for classical balance? How did the new “classical” style in music reflect new roles that music began to play in society in the 18^th century?	29	Haydn, Symphony No. 94, mvmt. 3 Wolfgang Mozart, “Madamina,” from Don Giovanni
Feb. 3	Cross-cultural Encounters  How is the concept of the "noble savage" reflected in Western art? What are some consequences of the Western encounter with other cultures?	30
5	The Rights of Man How did Enlightenment ideals inform the American Revolution? Why was the style of Neoclassicism attractive to Early American leaders? What factors led to the growing opposition to the slave trade?	31	Traditional: Chemetengure/Mudendero William Bolcom, “Little Black Boy” and “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (WebCT)
10	Revolution in France Pages 946-50: how did Enlightenment ideals and the writings of the philosophes foment revolution? How does the Neoclassicism of Jacques Louis David reflect the politics and issues of the day?	Pages 946-950; 32
12	Exam #1: Unit 4. Go here for the essay topics for the first exam.
17	Romanticism in Nature How does Romanticism represent a breaking away from the ideals of (Neo)classicism? Why does the reverence for nature figure so largely in the poetics and art of Romanticism? Why and how does landscape painting emerge as such an important art form?	33	12
19	The Promethean Hero and the Romantic Imagination What are some of the features of the Romantic hero and how does he reflect the spirit of the age? In what ways is Beethoven an example of the romantic hero in music? What are some of the defining characteristics of his music that reach beyond the Classical style?	33-34	Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, mvmt. 2 Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, mvmt. 4
24	Virtuosos in Music What is a virtuoso? Why was the cult of the virtuoso so popular during the early 19^th century? How was early 19th-century music influenced by the "cult" of the composer-performer?  Describe differences between the culture of the concert hall/opera hall and the culture of the salon and the musical styles associated with each of them.	34	Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, mvmt. 1 Robert Schumann, “Widmung” Chopin, Fantasie-Impromptu Paganini, Caprice for Solo Violin No. 24 (WebCT)
26	Realism and the Working Class What is “Realism”? How is this movement in the arts a reaction against Romanticism? How do individual works of realist literature and painting advance a political and social call for reform?	35
March 3	Revolution and Civil War What shifts in subject matter occur in the visual arts after about 1848, and why? How did artists like Courbet, Daumier, Millet, and Manet approach the ordinary man? How is this different from earlier art we've looked at in this class? What new determinisms challenge the traditional role of the humanities? Dr. Harwood’s Beethoven monument assignment due (see link at bottom of main course page on GeorgiaView)	36	Verdi, Quartet from Rigoletto Foster, The Camptown Races
March 5	Rise of Bourgeois Culture How does the Haussmannization of Paris and Impressionist painting reflect the emerging bourgeois culture? What new formal innovations are found in Impressionist painting?	37	Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture
March 10	The Gilded Age in America How does the art, poetry, and jazz of this period reflect some of the optimism and contradictions of the Gilded Age?	38	Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag
March 12	Global Confrontations What are some of the impacts of Global confrontations (European and American encounters with indigenous peoples)?	39
24	From Realism to Symbolism and Post-Impressionism How does the music of Brahms, Mahler, and Debussy point the way for new directions in music? Renoir, himself an Impressionist painter, declared that Impressionism after 1883 was becoming a "blind alley." How did European painters after Impressionism approach form and color? What did they hope to accomplish by this? What are some of the developments in fin de siècle literature and philosophy?	40	Indonesian Gamelan Music (Web CT) Debussy, La Mer, mvmt. 1 Mahler, Symphony No. 1, mvmt. 3
26	Exam 2: Unit 5. Go here for the essay topics for the test on unit #5
31	The Era of Invention What basic qualities shared by Picasso, Matisse, and Stravinsky mark them as modernist innovators?	41	Stravinsky, “Sacrificial Dance” from The Rite of Spring Schoenberg, “Madonna” from Pierrot lunaire
April 2	Modernism What are some features of modernist poetics? How do Matisse and Picasso take art in new directions? How are these “modernist”?	41cont.
7	The Great War and Its Impact How did the Great War impact the arts? How does Freudian understanding of the mind open up new avenues for the arts to explore?	42
April 9	Skyscraper Culture What were the cultural achievements of the Harlem Renaissance? How did artists respond to skyscraper culture and the machine age?	43	Williams, Florida Bound Blues Armstrong, Hotter than That Ellington and Mills, It Don’t Mean a A Thing
14	Between the Wars What are some of the impacts of technology on music? How did artists and writers respond to the threat of rising totalitarian states and their powerful propaganda? What new directions in architecture and the arts were espoused by the Bauhaus and later reflected in the International style?	44	Brecht and Weill, “Mack the Knife” from The Threepenny Opera Copland, Variations on “Simple Gifts” from Appalachian Spring Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land”
16	World War II and its Aftermath · What is existentialism and how did its expression in art and literature reflect the spirit of pessimism following WW II? · What are some new developments and challenges to the arts at mid-century? · How do the compositions of John Cage make us rethink what music is?	45	Cage, Water Music (WebCT)
21	The Turbulent 1960’s · How did the arts give expression to the revolutionary forces of the Civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War protests, and feminism?	46	John Adams, “News” from Nixon in China (WebCT)
23	The Postmodern Era · What are some key features of postmodernism in art, literature, and music? For literature, we will focus on Borges’s “The Library of Babel”: All students must submit on a page of paper one question they have about the tale on April 23. The main assignment is due April 28. Go here for expanded information on that assignment. Due April 28	47	Glass, “Knee Play 2" from Einstein on the Beach
28	The Global Village in the Information Age (note: any students who need to take a make-up exam must notify Dr. Harwood in writing by April 28)	48	33-35 Piazzola, Adios Nonino (WebCT) Glass, Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra (WebCT)
30	The Humanities in the 21^st Century; Review; Make-up Exams What are possible directions the Humanities may take during the course of the 21^st century? What relevance do the Humanities have for 21^st century society.	review
May 5 12:30 -2:30	Final Exam: Unit #6. here for the essay topics

Top 40’s for Unit 6 (music, art, literature and general). Note: again, we have more names but terms but overall list is 78 items.

Terms atonality 12-tone composition Sprechstimme futurism tone row vs. scale blues Dixieland jazz swing jazz minimalism musique concrète control vs. indeterminism in music Fauvism Futurism Cubism Bauhaus The Degenerate Art Exhibition Surrealism International Style Prairie Style Ready-made Collage Photomontage The Harlem Renaissance Multiculturalism Postmodernism (at least 2 or 3 features of) Feminism Stream of Consciousness Novel Existentialism Civil Rights Movement Magical Realism

People, Pieces, etc. The Rite of Spring Pierrot lunaire Three-Penny Opera Dmitri Shostakovich Aaron Copland Louis Armstrong John Cage (Water Music) Einstein on the Beach The Jazz Singer (1927 film) Sergei Eisenstein Nixon in China Astor Piazzola (Adios nonino) Tan Dun Harrison Birtwistle, The Minotaur Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907; Guernica, 1937 Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin Odessa Steps Sequence Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water, 1936-39 Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 William Van Alen, The Chrysler Building, 1928-30 George Grosz, The Pillars of Society, 1926 Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles # 11, 1952 Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934 Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram’s Building, 1954-58 Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1962 Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997 Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series, 1940-41 Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972 Robert Smithson, The Spiral Jetty, 1970 Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996 Nam June Paik, Megatron, 1995 Yukinori Yanagi, America, 1994 The Names Project Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, 1994 Ezra Pound Wilfred Owen Sigmund Freud Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Franz Kafka Joseph Heller Ralph Ellison Betty Friedan Jules Luis Borges Veronique Tadjo

Essay Topics for the Final Exam: on the day of the exam, your instructors will choose the topic(s) for your essay section of the exam. Be sure to support your main points with reference to specific works of art, music, and literature/philosophy

1. Discuss how Modern or Postmodern art, literature, and music make use of past works in the humanities. Be specific about the past work quoted or referred to in the later work, and discuss how it is used in the Modern or Postmodern artwork (or architecture), text, and piece of music.

2. What is multiculturalism and how has it found expression in art, music, and literature? Select and discuss examples from the three disciplines.

3. Influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, many works of 20^th Century art give expression to irrational, primitive, and “surrealistic” states of the human psyche. Discuss examples from art, literature, and music.

4. See the following distinction from modernist poetics webpage:

Modernist and Postmodern arts inherit and complicate the late nineteenth century divide between Realism and the Art for Art’s Sake movement.  Faced with the many social upheavals during the 20^th C (such as the Wars, the Depression, and Postcolonialism), many artists continue in the realist tradition of social commentary, holding up a mirror to the age, documenting its problems, and working for social justice.  Formalism, on the other hand, radically departs from the idea that art represents reality (or radically refigures the notion of what is “real”) and concentrates, often with wonderful exuberance and creativity, on redefining the medium of the arts.

Discuss at least one work of art, music, or literature in the tradition of social commentary and its aims and one that represents formal innovation; end your essay with a discussion of at  least work of art, music, or literature that combines the two strands (formally innovative and socially activist).

Quiz: The Rise of the Enlightenment (20 points)

Due Jan. 27 at the beginning of class; copy, paste, print out, and submit the quiz below (a sheet with just the letter answers will not be accepted). No collaborations please.

Print out the below and match the person with the letter that supplies the best match.

______1. Jonathan Swift A. famed for his Dictionary and aphorisms

______2. Joseph Addison B. botanist and member of the Lunar Society

______3. Daniel Defoe C. novelist who subtly used irony in examining distinctions of class, rank, and social standing

______4. John Locke D. offers a “modest proposal” to the Irish problem

______5. Samuel Johnson E. launched one of the first periodicals; invented the journalistic essay

______6. Thomas Hobbes F. the “only way” for people to live in peace and justice “is to confer all their power and strength upon one man”

______7. Jane Austen G. “WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT”

______8. Alexander Pope H. treats satirically Richardson’s idea of “virtue rewarded”

______9. Henry Fielding I. uses idea of tabula rasa to argue that humans are “by nature, free, equal, and independent”

______10. Erasmus Darwin J. wrote novels depicting the power of the average person to survive and flourish, even in difficult situations

Essay Topics for Unit#5. Study and makes notes on all four; on the day of the exam, your instructors will choose the topic(s) for your essay. Be sure to provide concrete and named examples to develop your main ideas.

1. Discuss how the idea of the Romantic or Promethean hero finds expression in the painting, literature, and music of the early-mid nineteenth century.

2. Discuss how Realism reacts against Romanticism. Use three pairs of works from art or literature to draw your contrasts.

3. Pinpoint two or three new challenges to the humanities that emerged from the social turmoil or technological advances of the nineteenth century. Discuss how works of art, architecture, literature, and music (at least three of these fields) responded to those challenges.

4. Identify new directions in art, music, and literature (or philosophy) at the end of the nineteenth century. Provide at least one example for each of these new innovations, and discuss how each offers a breaking away from the past.

“The Library of Babel” assignment

o.k.: take it easy—this is, admittedly, an experimental-type assignment, quite typical of postmodernism in that there exist no “right” answers but a number of possibilities (and, of course, multiple possibilities is what the Library of Babel is all about). Listed below are some suggestions about how to proceed, but really there is only one baseline requirement: use the Library of Babel to say something about your world.

My original suggestion: Discuss some ways that Borges’s library anticipates or resembles or offers a critical perspective on today’s world of mass, electronic communication (or what is known as the “Information Age”). Note: although written in 1941, the story has been read as a satire of the internet.

But after re-reading the story, here’s another, antithetical proposition: Discuss some ways the internet or other contemporary forms of electronic communication provide solutions to the problems that plague Borges’ librarians.

Some other possibilities: how your life as a student resembles the existence of Borges’s librarian; how the librarian’s quest for the “catalogue of catalogues” symbolizes the human search for God; what book would you most like to find in the Library: why?; imagine yourself as occupying a day in one of the hexagons of the library: what would you do?

Also, here’s an audio translation of the text, a slightly different one (wouldn’t you know it?) from the one you have read: mp3 audio version

Baroque vs. Neoclassical. How do the couplets below differ in style and subject matter?

From Richard Crashaw’s “The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa” (1652)

O thou undaunted daughter of desires!

By all thy dow'r of lights and fires;

By all the eagle in thee, all the dove;

By all thy lives and deaths of love;

By thy large draughts of intellectual day,

And by thy thirsts of love more large than they;

By all thy brim-fill'd bowls of fierce desire

By the last morning's draught of liquid fire;

By the full kingdom of that final kiss

That seiz'd thy parting soul, and seal'd thee his;

By all the heav'ns thou hast in him

(Fair sister of the Seraphim!)

By all of him we have in thee;

Leave nothing of my self in me.

Let me so read thy life, that I

Unto all life of mine may die.

From Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” (1711)

 . . . You who seek to give and merit fame,

And justly bear a critic's noble name,

Be sure your self and your own reach to know,

How far your genius, taste, and learning go;

Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet,

And mark that point where sense and dullness meet.

Nature to all things fixed the limits fit,
And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. . . .

Avoid extremes; and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. . . .

Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive __________. [can you supply the missing word?].

1. Compare and contrast in two of the following countries/areas (1) cultural influences on the development and use of baroque style and (2) specific features of baroque style. Choose from among Italy, Holland/Germany, France, and England. Be sure to include specific examples to illustrate your points and to use examples from all three disciplines.

2. Explain how societal changes in the eighteenth century, for example the rise of the middle class, led to a break from Baroque style and toward new trends in literature/philosophy, art, and music.

3. Select and discuss some works of art, literature/philosophy and/or music that served the Absolutism of European monarchies and also some works that were sharply critical of such Absolutism.

4. Discuss the art and culture of two non-western cultures and the impact of their “encounter” with Europeans.

Top 40’s for Unit #5. Important Note: For this unit we have more under the artists, titles section (48) and fewer under terms (32) but the total comes out to 80 overall. Dates are there to help you locate works in time, but you don’t have to memorize them

Heiligenstadt Testament organic form Lied (art song) symphony vs. program symphony concert overture ragtime gamelan salon (general sense + specific art sense) idée fixe Richard Wagner's "music drama" operetta klezmer music Romanticism daguerreotype Japonisme Ukiyo-e Haussmannization Plein air painting Symbolism Impressionism Post-Impressionism Art for art’s sake / aestheticism pointillism Avant-garde sublime Lyric poetry The Romantic or Promethean hero Realism Marxism Utilitarian Free verse Social Darwinism

Ludwig van Beethoven George Bridgetower "Ode to Joy" Eroica Symphony Robert Schumann, "Widmung" Frederic Chopin Nicolo Paganini Symphonie fantastique Rigoletto 1812 Overture Claude Debussy La Mer Gustav Mahler "The Camptown Races" --J.M.W. Turner, Interior of Tintern Abbey, 1794 --Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 --Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1810 --Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 --Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1850 --Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 --Louis Daguerre, Temple Boulevard, 1837 --Eastman Johnson, Negro Life in the South, 1859 --Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1889 --Sir Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, 1851 --Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1876 --Monet, Bridge over a Pool of Water lilies, 1899 --Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic, 1889 --Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman, 1893 --Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac, 1898 --Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, 1863 --Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Cafe, 1888 --Paul Gauguin, Where do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? 1897 --Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86 --Paul Cezanne, Mount St. Victoire, 1904 William Wordsworth and the poetry of nature Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry David Thoreau Napoleon Goethe’s Faust Charles Dickens Frederick Douglass Honoré de Balzac Fyodor Dostoyevsky Walt Whitman Kate Chopin Emily Dickinson Nietzsche

Top 40’s for Unit 4 (music, art, literature and general)

programmatic music timbre fugue oratorio opera buffa dramma giocoso structure of the Classical orchestra patronage system pianoforte homophonic texture Esterhazy family symphony concerto Baroque tenebrism etching camera obscura vanitas painting caricature Rococo noble savage Neoclassicism The Counter-Reformation The Enlightenment Empiricism Tabula rasa Deism Satire Yahoo Journalistic essay The rise of the novel Heroic couplet Aphorism French Revolution

Monteverdi /Orfeo/ Vivaldi, The Four Seasons ("Spring,” mvmt. 1) J.S. Bach, The Brandenburg Concertos (No. 2, mvmt. 3) Handel, Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus) Haydn, "London" Symphonies Wolfgang Mozart, Don Giovanni ("Catalog" Aria) Chemetengure, Mudenero Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1645-1652 Bernini, Saint Peter’s Cathedral Colonnades Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, 1600 Palace of Versailles, France, 1668-75 Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632 Vermeer, The Geographer, 1668-69 Peter Paul Rubens, The Kermis, 1635 Christopher Wren, St. Paul’s, 1675-1710 William Hogarth, Marriage à la Mode, 1743 Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing, 1768 Thomas Cole, Kaaterskill Falls, 1826 Thomas Jefferson, Monitcello, 1770-1784 Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge René Descartes Molière Alexander Pope Thomas Hobbes John Locke Jonathan Swift Samuel Johnson Jane Austen The Philosophes Jean-Jacques Rousseau Voltaire Thomas Jefferson Olaudah Equiano Mary Wollstonecraft