Seminar for Music Majors
MUSC 300
Spring 2018
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02
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| This course may be repeated for credit. |
This seminar will provide music majors an opportunity to understand one or more of the world's musical traditions by studying them in-depth. The topic of the seminar will vary from one semester to the next. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA MUSC |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (MUSC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
T.Viswanathan and Matthew Harp Allen, MUSIC IN SOUTH INDIA
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will produce a final project in addition to written assignments, and a mid-term exam. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Seminar Topic: "Boundary Crossing in Indian Music"
Students will be introduced to the core aspects such as raga and tala of India's two classical traditions in a broad perspective. The current practices of many varieties of Indian music are very much connected to one another. Thus, this course will be focused on the interrelated characteristics within the classical, popular, folk and devotional music cultures. |
| Instructor(s): Balasubrahmaniyan,B. Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: MST301; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
| SECTION 02 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBA |
Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Books and essays in the autobiography and biography format provide valuable information and perspective about the processes of humanly organized sound. This course will survey the lives and works of numerous composer/ performers of the African American music tradition referred to as jazz. The focus time period will be from 1910 through 1980. Artists will include Joplin, Morton, Henderson, Ellington, Armstrong , Hampton, Gllespie, Parker, Monk, Davis Coltrane, Mingus, McLean, Shorter, Hancock, and others. This course is structured as a music major seminar, but interested non-music majors are welcome. |
| Instructor(s): Hoggard,Jay Clinton Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: RHH003; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 26 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 2 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 0 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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