This course is a graduate-level seminar that centers on the music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911). It uses his music as a starting point for exploring significant questions in music research that relate to students’ individual interests.
Learning Objectives
To locate and identify primary sources in Library of Congress digital collections that relate to Mahler’s music and its contexts
To observe unusual or unexpected details in related primary sources, and use those as starting points to ask larger questions about music history
About this Lesson Plan
Discipline(s)
Musicology/Music History
Time Needed
1 class period (75 minutes)
Original Course
MUS 596B (The Music of Gustav Mahler)
Lesson Plan Created By
Dr. Matt Mugmon, Fred Fox School of Music, University of Arizona
