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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of vocal and instrumental literature from Bach to Beethoven; intellectual and historical setting, music as expression of the cultural conditions of its time, composition as craft, and the shared musical language of the Viennese Classical Style. Study through listening, reading, writing, videos, and live concerts. Prerequisite: MUSC 331 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Vocal and instrumental works from the early 19th-century Age of Expression through Nationalism and Impressionism; opposing trends from miniature to the grandiose, from intimate to mass music, from craft to personal inspiration; and the cult of the genius. Late Beethoven to Debussy. Listening, reading, writing, and live concerts. Prerequisite: MUSC 330 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The rebellion against Romanticism, pre-World War II styles, Expressionism; atonality; serial music; non-Western influences; post-1945; the age of anxiety; experimentalism; neo-Romanticism; new frontiers in electronic and mixed media; and minimalism. Stravinsky to Glass. Listening, reading, writing, and live concerts. Prerequisite: MUSC 332 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in the relationships between music and culture in a global context, surveying the musical application of topics such as cultural identity, nationalism, politics, border crossing, race, economics, copyright law, cultural appropriation, and technology. Case studies from around the world are examined in depth through readings, listenings, and live performances.
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3.00 Credits
Three major composers of far-reaching influence. We will study their contributions to solo, chamber, orchestral and vocal genres, and consider their secular music for entertainment at court and in the concert hall, their sacred music for worship and private edification, and their music for the theater stage. Focus will be on musical style characteristics, esthetic principles, philosophical perspectives, and historical circumstances. Historical study, informed listening and criticism, writing based on library research, analytical writing are central aspects of the course. Prerequisites: Two from MUSC 330-332 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Focus will be on the evolution of opera in music history, in chronological order, as seen through contemporary documents. These documents include memoirs, letters, histories, polemical writings, reviews, biography essays, and poetry. Such historical responses to opera illustrate changing attitudes of successive generations of opera lovers to the art form, as well as demonstrate the impact contemporary views have had on composers of opera and on operatic developments themselves. Historical study, informed listening and criticism, writing based on library research, analytical writing are central aspects of the course. Prerequisites: two from MUSC 330-332 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A musical and social history of the birth of bebop in the 1940s, and an introduction to the nature and language of jazz, its roots and the musical styles leading up to the 1940s. Its leading pioneers, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell will be closely examined, as will the social and political issues that dictated the living conditions of these artists, many of whom were African-Americans. No previous musical training is required for this course.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of selected topics in depth, such as history of sacred music, history of opera, piano literature, vocal literature, or string literature. May be repeated for credit when topicc change. Prerequisites may apply.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Public presentation during the senior year of a solo recital, the performance of a substantial original composition, or a written research project, under the direction of a faculty supervisor. For Music majors only. Prerequisite: Approval of music program director required.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Practical experience in music management through service to a university or community performance organization. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of music program director required.
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