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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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

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.