RUSS 371Masterpieces of Russian Literature and Opera
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course, designed for students of literature and music, offers an interdisciplinary approach to the relationships between literary and musical culture in Russia during the nineteenth century. Central to the course is the comparative study of masterpieces of Russian opera and the classics of literature which inspired their musical intepretations. Among the works discussed as literary text, libretto and music are: Glinka’s Rusian and Ludmila, Borodin’s Prince Igor, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri. This course is taught via the Waterloo- Guelph Education Link System.
As printed in the 1994–95 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Open to all students. Additional requirements apply to students majoring in Russian and Music Programs.
Cross-listed as MUSIC 365
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1994–95 1 calendar
This course, designed for students of literature and music, offers an interdisciplinary approach to the relationships between literary and musical culture in Russia during the nineteenth century. Central to the course is the comparative study of masterpieces of Russian opera and the classics of literature which inspired their musical intepretations. Among the works discussed as literary text, libretto and music are: Glinka’s Rusian and Ludmila, Borodin’s Prince Igor, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri.
This course is taught via the Waterloo- Guelph Education Link System.
Prereq: Open to all students. Additional requirements apply to students majoring in Russian and Music Programs.
Cross-listed as MUSIC 365
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1975–76 to 1993–94 calendars.
1968–69 to 1974–75 4 calendars
Titled The Golden Age of Russian Literature.
Reading and interpretation of prescribed prose, drama and poetry from Lomonosov to Pushkin. , Prerequisite: Russian 102* One term, 3 lectures