La asignatura está estructurada en base a los siguientes bloques de contenidos, que incluyen aspectos generales y teóricos, además de las obras literarias y musicales concretas que serán estudiadas.
1. Preliminary questions
1.1 Musicality as a poetic and textual quality
1.2 Influence, adaptation and textual transference
1.3 The frontier between high and popular culture
2. Poetry and music in Medieval and Renaissance England
2.1 Popular ballads
2.2 Thomas Campion and John Dowland
2.3 Musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s sonnets
3. Literature, opera and musical theatre
3.1 The Waste Land and Richard Wagner’s opera
3.2 Opera librettos based on literary texts: The Turn of the Screw, Salome
3.3 Between opera and American musical theatre: Porgy and Bess, West Side Story
