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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with MUSC Western Art · returned 4 results

  • MUSC 215 Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present 6 credits

    How does music shape society? What does it feel like to participate in musical life—as a creator, performer, listener, leader, fan, or critic? These questions will guide us as we study the history of Western music with an emphasis on social experience. We’ll explore music from the Romantic era to our contemporary moment, with our ears and eyes trained toward the repertoire’s civic and interpersonal meanings. Along the way, you’ll respond to current concert programming and curate playlists that speak to your communities on campus and beyond. Front of mind will be expansive themes of belonging and identity. 

    • Fall 2023
    • Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
    • EUST transnatl supporting crs Amer Music Soundtracks of Amer Music Western Art Music Pertinent
    • MUSC  215.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
  • MUSC 217 Opera: Stage, Screen, Recording 6 credits

    Opera has something for everyone: drama, desire, politics, stagecraft, design. The medium sets life to music and reveals the music within people’s lives. In the spirit of exchange between art and reality, this course looks at the history of opera through a contemporary lens. Centering on a diverse collection of operas—and voices—from past to present, we’ll ask how modern sensibilities animate the music’s production and performance. We’ll bring concepts of relevance, risk, representation, and justice to bear on opera, with attention to media and technology. We’ll listen to recent operatic interpretations and discover how creatives are making opera new.

    • Fall 2023
    • Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
    • None, ability to read music is not necessary

    • Amer Music Soundtracks of Amer Music Western Art
    • MUSC  217.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • MUSC 218 Improvisation: A Living History 6 credits

    Jon Batiste told Forbes in 2019: “I think that you have to open your mind to really be comfortable improvising. It really starts in the mind.” We’ll embrace this mind-music connection by thinking flexibly and critically about improvisation in American music, and by improvising musically ourselves. Readings and discussion will engage Black studies, performance studies, gender studies, philosophy, and political theory. And we’ll build our creative practice with your instruments and voices. Throughout, we’ll keep alive to the ethics of improvisation and the term’s multiplicity of meanings, which call out for your interpretation. Expected preparation: participation in a music ensemble, registration in music lessons, or facility on a musical instrument (Western or non-Western) including voice

    • Spring 2024
    • Arts Practice
    • Amer Music Soundtracks of Amer Music Pertinent Music Western Art
    • MUSC  218.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:20
    • T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • MUSC 308 Seminar in Music Analysis 6 credits

    An introduction to advanced analytical techniques for larger formal structure in Western Art Music repertoire from the classic, romantic and early twentieth century. Musical forms to be considered are binary, ternary, rondo, and variation forms, with particular emphasis on theories and analyses of sonata forms of eighteenth and nineteenth century music.

    • Spring 2024
    • Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • Music 110 or 204 or Instructor consent

    • American Music Research Seminr Music Western Art Music Seminar
    • MUSC  308.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am

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