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3.00 Credits
A study of Brahms' large-scale orchestral works and other selected literature from the perspective of 'influence.' Musical relationships to Couperin, JS Bach and sons, Beethoven, Wagner, Schoenberg and others. Topics include Brahms' self-image; Brahms as conductor, performer and editor; stylistic fingerprints; popular and folk elements; Brahms and later composers; his relationship to Clara; the Wagner-Brahms debate. 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 intensive exploration of the string quartet. Topics for discussion include origins and history of the genre, rhetoric, audience, reception, interpretation, and performance practice. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. FALL.
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Explores developments in genres, styles, patronage, and careers brought on by socioeconomic and political change from late Haydn to Wagner. Topics include nationalism, Romanticism, rise of the middle class, touring virtuoso, composer/critic. Musical analysis, historical and cultural context. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. FALL.
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S. Bach: Learned Musician and Virtual Traveler. Explores the life and works of high baroque composer J.S. Bach, who developed a highly cosmopolitan, erudite musical style. Course will include structural and stylistic analysis and will also address biography, cultural context, and performance practice. Prerequisite: B.Mus Students, MUSL 121W and 122; music minors and second majors, MUSL 121w; or permission of instructor. SPRING.
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An exploration of the wealth and diversity of European and American art music since 1900. Emphasis on the historical, cultural, philosophical and technological contexts that encourage an approach to this music on its own terms. Prerequisite: MUSL 122 or 140. SPRING.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of music and its historical, cultural, political, and performance contexts in the Baroque and Classic Eras. Development of research and writing skills. Prerequisite: MUSL 122 or 242. FALL.
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An in-depth study of music from the Romantic period to the present. Emphasis on reception history and historical, cultural, political, and performance contexts. Refinement of research and writing skills. Prerequisite: 243. Non-B.Mus. students may petition to use 140 or 141 as a prerequisite. FALL, SPRING.
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An in-depth exploration of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art music of the United States, from Charles Ives to the present. Prerequisite: MUSC 172 or 220, and MUSL 122 or 147 or 244. 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: 140 or 141. SPRING.
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An introduction to a wide variety of musical genres and traditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Indigenous, folk, popular, and art music forms and their social function, meaning, historical development, cultural blending, and cross-hybridization. SPRING.
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