ALL1410-Z 12 Weeks Wednesdays 3:00-4:20 Start Date 29-Jan
Zoom Limit 25
What makes a piece of classical music sound French? What are the predominant flavors of French music? Do these qualities cross genres, or is classical music a thing unto itself? How has France’s history helped shape its music? How do French composers stack up against those of other countries? Is it even possible to measure such things? Composers whose music we may hear include Lully, Chambonniѐres, Couperin, Rameau, Forqueray, Marais, Berlioz, Bizet, Gounod, Franck, Massenet, Duparc, Saint-Saens, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Boulanger, Poulenc, Milhaud, and Messiaen.
Coordinator: John Temple 
John is a retired business writer, lifelong listener, long-ago music critic and 22-year Barnstable Village resident. This will be his fifteenth ALL course, and like the others it will focus on a relatively narrow area within the world of classical music. Prior examples have ranged from specific genres (chamber music, choral works, Mozart piano concertos) to topics that cross categories (nationalism in music, music of liberation, music of the 1930s, etc.).