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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. We will trace the long tradition of Western choral music from its beginning in Gregorian chant to the present day. Emphasis will be on listening to works both sacred and secular especially loved by singers (and orchestral players) such as Bach's St. John Passion, Haydn's Seasons, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms's Requiem, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and others. Prerequisites: sophomore standing, ability to read music. Lecture-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course is a study of the forms of the Classical and Romantic periods and an introduction to the analytic ideas of Schenker, Reti, and Schoenberg. Prerequisite: Music 312. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. We will investigate Bach's life and music, with attention to works he wrote for the conditions of his employment at different times in his career. The histories of the genres in which he composed-Lutheran church music and other vocal works; instrumental works, including those for keyboard instruments, other instruments, and orchestra-will also be considered. Prerequisites: sophomore standing; ability to read music. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will consider the ways in which African American musical expression has offered critical perspectives on the past. Topics to be explored include the reception of the spiritual during the Harlem Renaissance; historical consciousness in sample-based hip-hop; resonances of southern history in soul music; and the "blues aesthetic" in literature and the visual arts. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Lecture-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. In this course we will study one of the most important wellsprings for 20th-century popular music, the blues, proceeding along three lines of inquiry: musical elements that characterize the blues, focusing on formal and harmonic structure, melodic and poetic ideals, and improvisational strategies; stylistic manifestations of the blues, including country blues, "classic" blues, postwar commercial styles, and influences on gospel music, rock, and jazz; and hermeneutic approaches that probe the "blues aesthetic" as a cultural signifier, as reflected in music criticism, documentary film, literature, its production and consumption, and international reception. Lecture-conferenc
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The term "avant-garde" was applied to music, such as Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" or Varése's "Ionisation," that broke with techniques of the past, but also to works like Satie's "Relache," which challenged and destabilized the very notion of an art work. These tendencies flowered after World War II with the music and ideas of Cage, Boulez, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Berio, and Feldman; this course will primarily study this literature. We will also study composers of the American "maverick" line, such as Ives, Cowell, Harrison, Partch, and Lucier. Conference. Not offered 20
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The focus of this course is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte , an opera that, since its premiere in 1790, has received copious scholarly attention. Through close study o f Cos ì from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, the course will explore topics that include late Classical style, Mozart's collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, Enlightenment philosophy, the sexual politics and orientalism of Mozart's Vienna, approaches to the opera's production, and, in lig ht of Così's complex reception history, critical and analytical interpretations of the work. Conference. Not offered 20
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year.
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3.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester. Prerequisite: approval of instructor and division.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course is an introduction to the formal logic of propositions, identity, and quantification, culminating in an introduction to metalogic and a study of some alternate and deviant logics. Lecture.
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