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4.00 Credits
Topics include the works of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; the ascendancy of the secular over the sacred resumed and maintained; a new harmonic basis for musical structure: the basso continuo; the theatricalization of music in opera, oratorio, and the cantata; the expansion of the span of time music can sustain and, in the instrumental forms of sonata and concerto, a new musical independence from nonmusical ideas; the concert as music's own occasion; musical autonomy in the symphonies and quartets of the Viennese classicists.
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4.00 Credits
The works of major composers from Beethoven through the late 19th century. Topics include the effect of romanticism on musical forms (symphony, sonata, lieder, opera), as well as the central importance of Wagner's musical ideas.
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4.00 Credits
Major revolutions of the early 20th century (Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók) and later serialism (Webern, Boulez, Babbitt, Stockhausen). Discussion of Cage, minimalism, and other recent developments.
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4.00 Credits
In-depth study of musical practices emerging throughout the 20th century, with an emphasis on mass-mediated musics and their impact on the constitution of new social fields. Topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
A concentrated study of musics and cultures from around the world. Topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the anthropology of music, with a focus on the politics and ethics of ethnographic method. Readings include major texts from disciplines of ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology.
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4.00 Credits
A study of Brazil's social and political history through its music and dance traditions, emphasizing questions of identity and performance in the international and transitional geographies of globalization.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the traditional and contemporary music of the Celtic areas of Western Europe: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Galicia. Recordings and live performances present the extraordinary range of singing styles and the musical instruments employed in each culture, including harps, bagpipes, and a variety of other wind, free reed, keyboard, and stringed instruments. Forms and musical styles are explored in depth, along with a study of their origin, evolution, and cultural links.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the underlying principles and inner workings of the tonal system, a system that has guided all of Western music from the years 1600 to 1900. It includes a discussion of historical background and evolution. Focuses on concepts and notation of key, scale, tonality, and rhythm. Related skills in sight-singing, dictation, and keyboard harmony are stressed in the recitation sections.
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4.00 Credits
Required of all honors students in the department, this seminar discusses recent ideas and issues in all areas of musical research, musicology, ethnomusicology, and theory. All faculty members in the department present different topics, discussing both ideas and their application, so that by the end of the semester students are capable of undertaking the advanced research project required for an honors degree.
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