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Introduction to Music (3)
A comprehensive view of music designed to develop critical ability as a listener; significant composers, representative works, forms, and styles.
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Music and Film (3)
Relationship between music and film from the silent era of live accompaniment to the modern era of synchronized sound tracks; philosophical relationship of music to visual arts.
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Women in Music (3)
Women in pop, jazz, and classical music; their lives and society's changing attitudes toward women performers and composers.
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American Music (3)
Survey of a representative sampling of U.S. musical traditions, including Native American, African-American, Ukrainian, Irish, Italian, Polish, Hispanic, and others; processes of change, development, and preservation, as well as musical features.
Previous musical knowledge not required.
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21:087:237,238
Survey of Western Music (3,3)
The forms and styles of Western music from the early medieval period to the present day.
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Jazz (3)
A survey of jazz from its earliest roots to its present level of sophistication; lectures illustrated by recordings and live performances.
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Rock Music and Culture (3)
This course explores post-1945 music in America through both its cultural impact and its diverse stylistic tangents, from post-war rhythm and blues and classic rock and roll, to hip hop, techno, and other recent genres.
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World Music--An Introduction (3)
World folk and ethnic music, including Asian, African, and European; musical instruments; methods of approach to diverse instrumental and vocal performance styles; lecture-demonstrations by visiting ethnic musicians.
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The Age of Bach (3)
Discussion of vocal and instrumental forms of the early 18th century, with emphasis on the works of Bach.
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The Age of Beethoven (3)
The evolution of the classical style; emphasis on the life and works of Beethoven.
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Opera and Music Drama (3,3)
A study of the development of dramatic forms in music, based on a selection of significant operas.
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Music in the Romantic Era (3)
A study of the period ca. 1815 to 1900; works of Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, and Verdi.
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Music in the 20th Century (3)
Study of the principal stylistic tendencies from ca. 1900 to the present; works of Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Bartók; experimental music and the contributions of American composers.
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Topics in Jazz (3)
Changing topics, which may include the work of a particular performer, or style, or the sociology of jazz.
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Topics in Music History (3)
Changing topics delving into intriguing aspects of music history.
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