International Field Trips

Montclair Spring in Budapest, Graz and Vienna
Music History International Field Trip
March 11 – 21, 2010

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
This international field trip will offer a musical journey through the Hapsburg Empire. For nearly five centuries (1526-1918) Austrians and Hungarians lived together under one state. Join us on a journey through their major urban centers-- Vienna and Budapest - cities that developed rich and unique musical traditions and became dominant centers of European culture. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Vienna was a civic and cultural crossroads that attracted Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as well as others creative geniuses in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. Béla Bartók, who memorialized Magyar peasant music in his compositions and who is regarded along with Franz Liszt as one of his country’s finest composers, lived and worked in Budapest. The field trip includes a visit to Montclair's sister city of Graz, a beautiful medieval city which also served as a musical borderland between Central Europe, Italy and the Balkan States. Students will have an opportunity to attend concerts and meet with fellow students and professors at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and with the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

FACULTY:
Dr. Laura Dolp is Assistant Professor in Musicology at the John J. Cali School of Music. Dr. Dolp’s interdisciplinary research interests embrace a variety of topics, from late nineteenth-century Austro-German music and visual arts to the music of Arvo Pärt and Orthodox iconography. Currently, she is working on a book-length study of the historical relationship between cartography and the musical score. Ongoing projects explore the role of music in a literary context, in the novels of Willa Cather, and the relationship of music to modern dance, in the choreography of Mark Morris. Dr. Dolp is a frequent speaker in the North America and Europe. Her articles are featured in 19th-Century Music, the Journal of Musicological Research, Naturlaut and Muzyka and she has been awarded a President’s Fellowship at Columbia University and a DAAD scholarship at Humboldt–Universität in Berlin. Before joining the faculty at Montclair State University she was a visiting faculty member at Wellesley College. She received her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University.

ACADEMICS: This international field trip is recommended for students registering for MUHS 308 and MUHS 605 but is open to all John J. Cali School of Music students. A limited number of non-students will be accepted for the tour only, for an additional administrative fee. Accommodations and Meals Participants will stay in centrally located hotels in double occupancy rooms with private bath. Breakfasts are included throughout. Estimated Program Cost: $2,300 The program cost includes Roundtrip airfare                    3 star hotel with continental breakfast Transfers in Europe                Concert tickets All lectures, workshops, and tours Program costs are based on 15 participants and current exchange rates and are subject to change.
Application Procedure and Payment Schedule The minimum GPA considered will be 2.75. All participants are required to have an interview with the faculty. Applications should include the $100 non-refundable deposit. Once accepted into the program, the payment schedule for program costs is as follows: Non-Refundable Deposit:        $ 100 Deposit by Nov. 15:                 $ 800 Deposit by Dec. 15:                 $ 800 Final Payment by Feb.1           $ 600 (final amount to be confirmed) Make checks payable to “Montclair State University”. Non-students: Please add administrative fee of $300 for the travel portion without the spring semester course tuition. Pre-enrollment Form
For further information: Contact the Global Education Center at 973-655-4185 or email simonW@mail.montclair.edu. Contact Pro. Laura Dolp  at 973-763-7212 or dolpL@mail.montclair.edu Or visit us on the web at www.montclair.edu/globaled For Itinerary and additional information please click here Music/History department Link