Enlightenment To Romanticism
Oct. 8th, 2005 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloAilz's new Open University course is titled Enlightenment to Romanticism, 1780-1830. Once again, as her carer, I'm sitting in on tutorials.
Cool stuff- The Encyclopaedia, the French Revolution, The Napoleonic wars, the campaign to end the slave trade. Cool people- Mozart, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Byron, Turner, Goya, Bonaparte, Delacroix. Are these the fifty coolest years in western cultural history? Could be.
Our first "text" is Don Giovanni. I like Mozart- he's my favourite classical composer- but it's the instumental music I've always gone for, and while I've seen productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni I can't say I've ever "got" them. But then I've never really "got" opera, full stop. Hmm, maybe now's my chance.
Cool stuff- The Encyclopaedia, the French Revolution, The Napoleonic wars, the campaign to end the slave trade. Cool people- Mozart, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Byron, Turner, Goya, Bonaparte, Delacroix. Are these the fifty coolest years in western cultural history? Could be.
Our first "text" is Don Giovanni. I like Mozart- he's my favourite classical composer- but it's the instumental music I've always gone for, and while I've seen productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni I can't say I've ever "got" them. But then I've never really "got" opera, full stop. Hmm, maybe now's my chance.
