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Apr 19, 2024
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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MU 260 Music in World Cultures
This course is a unique combination of lecture and participation in various aspects of a wide variety of non-western musical, artistic and cultural sources (for a more specific ‘tour of the world’ please see the schedule). In this course, which meets twice a week for 1.5 hours, the first meeting of each week generally takes the form of lecture – students will have a reading and listening assignments to prepare them for the week. This information will be amplified and expounded on during the first meeting. At the next meeting, students will go deeper with more analysis of the culture studied, and then will actually participate in making the music studied or creating and participating in a part of the culture we have been studying. In this way, students will read about the culture, it’s history, it’s rich artwork, it’s music, and anything else germane to the subject. Students will then be assigned a variety of audio and video examples illustrating specific musical aspects, and then student will attempt to re-create portions of the music and cultural legacy of the specific country or region studied. This gives them a much greater impact and appreciation of the culture than just reading, writing or listening.
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