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This 2-credit course is an introduction to Walt Whitman鈥檚 Leaves of Grass, which inaugurated a distinctly American free verse by breaking with European formal traditions of poetry. We will read the entire original 1855 version (a self-published volume with only twelve poems) as well as selections from some of the subsequent editions that Whitman published over his lifetime (including the 1892 鈥渄eathbed鈥 edition, which contains 383 poems!).
In this course we will be taking a hands on approach to understanding the lever harp both historically and compositionally. We will be building and stringing small 19 string harps which will be used as the basis for our compositional work where students will be creating new works of varying length for the lever harp to be presented at the end of the semester. We鈥檒l look at what techniques are and are not achievable, what makes this instrument unique to other harps, and how to include it in larger compositional contexts.