FREN 3554 - French Music and Poetry 3 s.h.

This course is designed to familiarize students to French culture and literature through a form likely to attract French, English and Music majors. Taught in English, the offering will be a survey course providing an approach to French music and lyric poetry from the Middle-Ages to the present, including Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century. The course will examine the development of the French mélodie and its intimate connection with French poetry. A-E Only. Offered every two years.