My End is My Beginning—Or Not

Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Chair of the Department of Music, stands outside of the newly renovated Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance in Lincoln Hall Jan. 12, 2007.

This talk will explore the evolving reciprocities between the beginnings and endings of operas during the ancien régime, with emphasis on the aesthetic and ideological implications of the radical changes in musical and choreographic construction that occurred around the middle of the 18th century.

Musicology Colloquium series