MUSIC 2208

Survey of Western Music II

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This course, intended for music majors and suitably qualified non-majors, surveys the vast terrain and diverse topography of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Western music. The course is designed to develop students' knowledge of repertory, musical institutions, and social practices; equally importantly, it aims to equip them with the means to think critically about music, texts, and contexts. Over the course of the semester, students will explore how musical and historical forces configured relationships between the material and the ineffable; the conventional and the idiosyncratic; the organic and the fragmentary; the private and the public; elitism and populism; modernism and folklorism; cities and landscapes; technology and nature; and so on.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite or corequisite: MUSIC 2102/MUSIC 2104 or permission of instructor.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

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