MUS 523

Fall 2007 All Classes

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Seminar in Musicology

Credit: 4 hours.

Problems in historical and systematic musicology or ethnomusicology; discussions of special problems and reports on individual research.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hous. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in musicology or consent of instructor.

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MUS 523 class schedule data for fall 2007
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32821	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	1140 Music Building	Magee, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Section Info: TOPIC: THE AMERICAN HYMN TUNE This seminar will focus on American hymns over four centuries, from the earliest colonial period to the present. Topics will include psalmody, religion, and immigration; the first New England School and nationalism; Lowell Mason and the musical repertory of the revivals; gospel before, during and after the Civil War; and the hymn tune in various media. Coursework and class meetings will feature original archival research, extensive readings of the secondary literature, analysis, and musical, religious and cultural history. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32824	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	R	3142 Music Building	Bashford, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Section Info: TOPIC: MUSICAL CULTURE IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND This seminar will study of the role of music in 19th-century English culture, with reference to both primary sources and a body of recent scholarship that emphasizes approaches from social and economic history. We will explore the development of public performance (including concerts), the relationship between London and the regions, the growth of the music profession, the vitality of domestic music-making, and related issues of class, gender and national identity. There will also be emphasis on how and why particular ideas about Victorian music have evolved in the historiography, which will enable students to assess, critically, the popular perception of England in the 19th century as a "Land without Music". Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32825	Lecture-Discussion	C	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	3142 Music Building	Solis, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Section Info: "Rock Studies" This course will examine scholarship on rock music and its predecessors from 1945 to the present, with an emphasis on considering the theoretical and methodological paradigms brought to bear on the music. We will consider scholarly approaches to rock from musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as looking at rock criticism. There will be brief forays into the literature on World Beat, Country, Hip Hop, and Blues, but the primary focus will be the rock/pop strand of popular music. While discussion of the music itself will be a central facet of this course, it is not intended as a history of popular music; a basic knowledge of the tradition will be expected. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.