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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The changing historical relationships among music, literature, fine arts, and philosophy. Musical developments as responses to social, political, and economic circumstances. FALL.
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Perspectives on two great problems of human life throughout the history of Western music. Themes include idealized love, sexual pathology, love and realism, love of God, confronting death, transcending death. Connections of music to visual arts, literature, film. No musical background required.
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Diverse ways in which Western musical works have communicated values about what kind of life to live. Contrasting themes include goodness and amorality, holiness and the allure of the sensuous. Investigations of historical styles and genres, composers' philosophical outlooks, and music's various functions in society. Consideration of changing performance practices and differing ideological responses to music. No musical background required. SPRING.
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An investigation of the roles women have played in the development of Western music-performance, composition, patronage, education-and the social and economic factors that have influenced their position. Recommended: MUSL 121W, 140, or 141 or familiarity with the style periods of classical Western music. FALL.
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Exploration of gender and sexuality in Western art and vernacular musical traditions. Topics include gendered musical forms, genres, and performance; feminist music criticism; ideologies of musical authorship and genius; musical canons; and musical representations of gender and sexuality. Prerequisite: MUSL 121W, 140 or 141 and ability to read a score. SPRING.
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An investigation of Biblical texts (Old Testament/Tanach; Deuterocanonical texts/Old Testament Apocrypha; New Testament) that have inspired musical settings and the musical settings themselves. Emphasis on literary and musical analysis and interpretation. No musical or scriptural background assumed. SPRING.
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In-depth study of five or six representative works. Score and libretto analysis, reception history, cult of the performer, role of the contemporary producer/director. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 247 prior to fall 2010. SPRING.
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An exploration of large orchestral works of Gustav Mahler emphasizing their demonstration of the synthesis of symphony and song and their reflection of nineteenth-century German philosophies of irony. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. FALL.
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The musical legacy of each composer in culture and (especially) social context: patrons, family, and friends. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. FALL.
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An in-depth look at the music of Haydn and Mozart in cultural and social contexts. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. FALL.
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