4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ICNUpath WIrepeatable for credit
Examines how musical culture works in, and in relation to, the Western art music canon. Explores music selected from the Middle Ages to the present to consider musical structure, style, and performance together with the conditions that shape them, approaches to analyzing and interpreting them, and questions of how music is meaningful within a given time and place. Topics change from semester to semester and may center on such themes as a genre (e.g., the symphony); a historical or style period (e.g., music between the world wars); a set of musicians (e.g., women composers); or an issue or concept (e.g., fantasy). May be repeated once.