MUSIC
Graduate Courses

MUSI615 AMERICAN MUSIC (3 sh)
This course will focus on the various native composers, compositions, and styles which constitute the history of American music from the Colonial times to the present.  Content will survey mainstream styles of serious American art music, folk music, and popular music.  Units of study will encompass music of Native Americans, Afro-Americans, and Latin Americans.

MUSI628 HUMANITIES SEMINAR:  ETHNIC MUSIC (3 sh)
This seminar will provide a general survey of music as it is used in the daily lives of various ethnic peoples.  The study will enable the student to (1) understand the ways in which fold and ritual music represent a particular ethnic group, (2) recognize and distinguish the sounds of representative styles of ethnic music, and (3) develop procedures for the study of ethnic music that will enable the student to carry out such procedures independently.  Various contrasting examples of ethnic music will be considered.

MUSI628 HUMANITIES SEMINAR:  MUSIC IN POLITICS (3 sh)
Considers music and music criticism from Ancient Greece through the present from the perspective of political action and critique.  One portion of the semester is devoted to those works of music shaped by or attempting to shape government policy.  The second portion of the semester is devoted to writings about music.

July 2003