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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of music and dance in religious and spiritual practice in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. We will explore the dialectics between: sacred and secular, virtuosity and devotion, and religious belief and sociopolitical forces, in Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and indigenous African and Native American spirituality. (Matthew Allen, Julie Searles)
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A survey of American musical theatre, focusing on three areas: the African American experience (through shows such as The Green Pastures, Cabin in the Sky, Show Boat, Carmen Jones, Porgy and Bess and The Wiz); Western views of Asia ( Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and The King and I); and romantic treatments of American history ( The Girl of the Golden West, 1776 and Oklahoma!). Emphasis on film viewing and discussion. (Ann Sears)
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3.00 Credits
The tension between language and music will be explored in terms of various theories of and programs for setting words to music. The interpretive qualities of recitation, setting and performance will be studied and whenever possible, rehearsed. Selected works of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Mahler will be examined as well as the poets Goethe, Eichendorff, Heine and M?ike. This course will be cross-listed in the German Department. (Reinhard Mayer, Ann Sears)
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3.00 Credits
Composer Edgard Varèse's rallying cry reflects therebellious spirit of composers who emerged from the decaying European classical and romantic music tradition of the 19th century striving to create new musical languages and ideals. The course will survey the important composers of the 20th century, their music and their interactions with the other arts, in the context of the cultural and political upheavals of that period. (Guy Urban)
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The development of technical facility in music composition through individual study and group discussion and analysis. (Ahmed Madkour)
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Discovering the interactions of time, space, language, timbre and form as they occur in Western European music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. (Ahmed Madkour, Guy Urban)
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This course examines the crucial role played by music in the construction of individual, community and national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through the lens of art, folk and popular music traditions, we will study music "revivals";the role played by music in nationalist movements in Europe, the Americas and Asia; and the culture clashes that occur when musical systems encounter each other. (Matthew Allen)
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3.00 Credits
This class will survey the cultivated and vernacular traditions of American music, both sacred and secular, from the Yankee tunesmiths and immigrant musics of the colonial period to jazz and musical theatre at the end of World War II. Considerable independent listening, viewing and writing. (Ann Sears)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to important philosophies in music education, teaching styles, learning strategies and curriculum design. Includes teaching practicum at the Elisabeth W. Amen Nursery School. (Ann Sears)
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3.00 Credits
This class explores dynamic issues such as race, gender, class, sexuality and spirituality, framed through revolving case studies of world dance traditions. We will consider the impact of colonialism on expressive forms and how controversies emerge through transformative shifts in ownership. We will look at how definitive dance styles materialize through negotiation and the appropriation of marginalized influences, and how people use dance to embody, define, reinforce and empower personal and shared identity. (Julie Searles)
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