MUS 523

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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 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32821	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	1140 Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Section Info: TOPIC: MUSIC AND COSMOLOGY This course explores the position, function, and significance of music within culture-specific perceptions of the mystical, cosmological, and divine ordering of the universe. As such, it examines the place of music within large-scale epistemological systems embracing spirituality, philosophy, ecology, temporality, religion, astronomy, mythology, and morality. Here music--often through sacred and secular rite, festival, or celebration--facilitates, maintains, and enacts the normative social and cognitive orders of a given society. A central course objective is thus to understand how music operates in specific ritual events, its symbolic play within such contexts, and its role in triggering the altered states of consciousness (such as dreaming, mediatation, or trance) necessary for healing, divination, and spiritual ecstasy. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32824	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	1172 Music Building	Turino, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Section Info: SEMIOTICS OF MUSICAL PRACTICE The primary purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to Peircean semiotics as an approach for analyzing instances of music making and style. The major attention will be granted to sign types, processes, and effects pertaining to realms of life outside the semantico-referential. We will also touch on Saussurean structural linguistics and its legacy in musicology, Barthes' semiology, and music scholars who have advanced semiotic approaches, e.g., Nattiez. Tarasti, and Lidov. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.