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MUSC 301 Advanced Music Theory/Form & Analysis

Prerequisites: MUSC 201. A study of advanced, late, and post-tonal harmony and various twentieth-century systems including atonal and serial techniques, plus study of counterpoint and fugal analysis and formal analysis of works. Each student will undertake analysis of a large work for a report and class presentation. Aural skills to include recognition of form and chord progressions, plus executing rhythms and sight-singing with solmization.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

MUSC 302 World Music

Prerequisites: Completion of the Visual and Performing Arts category of the Core Curriculum. A survey of the Non-Western musical cultures of Africa, East Asia, India, Latin America and North America within the context of ethnomusicology, aesthetics, cultural anthropology and ethnic diversity. 

 

Credits

3.0

Core

Global Perspectives

Offered

Fall Semester (Odd Years)

MUSC 303 History of Western Classical Music I

Prerequisites: MUSC 201. This class surveys Western art music from 800 A.D. to 1800, covering the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods. We will discuss the major composers of these periods alongside major historical milestones such as the Reformations, the Age of Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Fall Semester

MUSC 304 History of Western Classical Music II

Prerequisites: MUSC 201 This class surveys Western art music from 1800 to the present, covering the late Romantic, modern, and postmodern periods. We will discuss the major composers of these periods alongside major historical milestones such as the revolutions of 1848, the First and Second World Wars, the Civil Rights Era, and the internet age.

Credits

3.0

Offered

Spring Semester

MUSC 318 Theory and Practice in the Arts: The Philosophy of Music

Prerequisites: Completion of the Literary Analysis and the Visual and Performing Arts areas of the core. In this class we will survey the writings of philosophers, artists and other figures who attempted to explain why music appeals to us and what the musical experience says about human nature. Readings will be taken from antiquity, the distant past, and the present day. Our goal will be: (1) to study how philosophers have attempted to explain what the musical experience says about human nature; (2) to study what these explanations say about the time periods and cultures from which they came.

Credits

3.0

Cross Listed Courses

Also offered as HON 318

Offered

Fall Semester (Odd Years)

MUSC 335 Teaching Assistantship in Music

(May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits) An opportunity for qualified juniors or seniors to assist in the teaching of music theory or history. Interested students are selected by the department. Grading is on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Credits

2.0

Offered

Either Semester

MUSC 375 Independent Study

Prerequisite: Permission of the department.

An intensive study of a musical topic, usually an individual composer, genre, or specific body of music. Students will research primary and secondary literature on the topic. May be conducted in a group when several students pursue the same study.

Credits

1.0 - 3.0

Offered

Both Semesters and Summer

MUSC 397 Special Topics

An upper-level special topics course offered at the discretion of the department. The content and methods vary with the interest of students and faculty members

Credits

3.0

Offered

As needed

MUSC 399 Internship in Music

Prerequisite: Open to junior and senior music majors, with permission of the department. Supervised part-time work in a musical setting approved by the department. Grading is on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Credits

3.0 - 12.0

Offered

Both Semesters and Summer