Seminar for Music Majors
MUSC 300
Fall 2019
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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: None |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBA
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Topic: Transposing Music and Image
This seminar examines the relationship between music's oral and written practices as a process of translation, transformation, translocation, and transfiguration. Tracing a thread from medieval notations through to contemporary graphic scores, we investigate the shifting tensions between the sonic and the visual over a long arc of music history. Why were sounds inscribed in the 9th century? How do 1960s scores reflect the radicalism of their era? Connections across centuries help shed light on musicians for whom the creative potential of notation surpasses its descriptive and prescriptive functions. Featured composers will include Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, Baude Cordier, Guillaume Du Fay, Antoine Busnoys, Louis Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Earle Brown, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Mark Applebaum, and Claudia Molitor. Overarching themes include the history of notation (music as image), music as part of a visual entity (music in image), music as the backdrop (music behind image), and music as the larger category (music beyond image). Complementary materials comprise visual art, illuminated books, concrete poetry, and experimental theater. Composers, ethnomusicologists, medievalists, modernists, and postmodernists: all are welcome.
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| Instructor(s): Alden,Jane Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: MST301; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 7 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
| SECTION 02 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
TBD |
Examinations and Assignments:
TBD |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Topic: Creative Music Since 1959
As 1959 proved a crucial year in the political and social climate in the United States, so too was 1959 a landmark year for major innovations in the arts and creative improvised music. The music developed during the intervening six decades has led to many answered and unanswered questions regarding the relationship between improvisation and composition, extant aesthetic constructions of place / scenes, and genre. Through extensive discussion, readings, and classroom listening, this course will survey many sub-genres of creative improvised music dating from that year up to the very present day. |
| Instructor(s): Sorey,Tyshawn Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: RHH105; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 6 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: X |
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