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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. A survey of people, identity, and music making. Includes listening to music from many cultural contexts. Also covers a variety of scholarly topics in world music. Cross-listed with ANTH 006.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An exploration of popular film and TV soundtrack music, emphasizing drama and musical style. Scene study features such films as The Matrix, Casablanca, The XFiles, and Altered States. Cross-listed with MCS 009.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores the so-called popular musics and music cultures of the United States and the social history of these cultures to provide students with a sonic understanding of these extremely fractured, ever reconstituted "United States."
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; workshop, 2 hours. Teaches basic theory and practical skills for understanding digital audio, recording, editing, and processing sound. Students work with audio and MIDI sequencers with the goal of writing musical compositions with computer notation programs.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): MUS 001 or a passing score on an equivalent examination or consent of instructor. A study of advanced musical fundamentals.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to issues surrounding popular and urban musics of the world, focusing on three major geocultural areas: Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Emphasizes the relationship between mass-mediated music and issues of cultural hegemony, resistance, and subversion. Analyzes the cultural impact of media technology on music performance and reception. Cross-listed with ETST 014 and URST 014.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; assigned listening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to the vast array of folk and popular styles of music in Latin America, with an emphasis on cultural and ethnic interaction and exchange in the context of Latin American history, politics, and society. Cross-listed with LNST 015.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; assigned listening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Survey of the rich heritage of Latin American classical music from Renaissance sacred polyphony to contemporary styles. Emphasis on the gradual emergence of Latin American music from European domination and the establishment of distinctive national traditions in the post-colonial era. Cross-listed with LNST 016.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; assigned listening, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): musical training and knowledge of Spanish is useful but not required. Surveys the rich traditional and art music of Mexico from the early 1500s to the present. Explores changes in social and political function, in time and across social classes and ethnicity. Cross-listed with LNST 017.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; term paper, 1 hour; assigned listening, 2 hours. Examines the rich heritage of Scottish music from the Middle Ages to the modern day, including folk, popular, and classical traditions. Emphasis is on the music of the Scottish highlands and the bagpipe. Explores the role of music during war and peace within the context of Scottish history.
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