MUS 523

Spring 2008 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 spring 2008
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34782	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -4:50PM	R	Music Building	Magee, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: M523 Studies in American Musical Theater Through most of the twentieth century, musical theater stood at the center of American culture, offering songs and stories that aimed to represent shared experience and reflect unresolved social issues, sometimes through comedy. This course explores the history and historiography of American musical theater with special focus on a few key shows in its most fertile period, ca. 1920-80, and on a plethora of recent studies that make it a rich interdisciplinary subject linking musicology, dramatic theory and criticism, cultural studies, and American history. The course aims to develop a balanced focus on music, lyrics, dramatic context, and the broad range of dramatic and social issues that directly or indirectly emerge in the shows and the literature about them. A variety of assignments will determine the grade, including reading reports, discussions, oral presentations, and an extensive final research paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music Education or Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
34785	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	Music Building	Turino, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: MUSICAL ETHNOGRAPHY This core course for ethnomusicology and anthropology (of music) graduate students trace the processes of doing ethnographic research from the project design and grant writing phases through a consideration of field work problems, methods, and ethics. during the final part of the course we will investigate ethnographic writing strategies through the study of a variety of texts. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music Education or Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
34786	Lecture-Discussion	C	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	Music Building	Hill, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/08-04/30/08 Section Info: COMPOSITIONAL THEORY OF THE CLASSICAL ERA Readings will include English translations of treatises by Riepel, Koch, Reicha, Marx, Vogler, Daube, Portman, and Engel. From their theories, students will fashion new analytical tools and stylistic criteria. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music Education or Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.