Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
Is there a distinction in America today between upper- and lower-class art and music? Are art or music divided in some other way – by gender, race, or ethnicity, for example? How or how not?
Imagine you are building a country mansion. Would you prefer the rococo or the neoclassical style? Why?
The director Peter Sellars updated Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, keeping the music and text the same, but setting it in Manhattan’s Trump Tower during the 1990’s. How might you redo this opera?
Technically, “classical music” refers to a stylistic period typified by the music of Mozart and Haydn. Why do you suppose the expression has come to be an umbrella term encompassing all serious concert music from the Middle Ages to the present?
