MUS 523

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Seminar in Musicology

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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 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in musicology or consent of instructor. Graduate students in music will be considered if they passed MUS 528A (consult Class Schedule for specific section information).

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MUS 523 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32824	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	1140 Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Music & Cosmology Section Info: Music and Cosmology: The Breath of Mysticism This course explores the position, function, and significance of music in culture-specific perceptions of the mystical, cosmological, and divine ordering of the universe in diverse locales and time periods. As such, it examines the place of sound, musical and otherwise, within large-scale epistemological systems variously embracing spirituality, religion, philosophy, ecology, mythology, (ethno-)astronomy, and morality. It addresses how music facilitates, maintains, enacts, or otherwise contributes to the belief constructs of various communities, often through sacred and secular rites, festivals, or celebrations, its symbolic play within such contexts, and its role in triggering the altered states of consciousness (such as dreaming, meditation, or trance) associated with healing, divination, and spiritual ecstasy. Course materials will pay special but not exclusive attention to the work of the breath in conjunction with mystical experience and spiritual practice, whether through wind instruments, chant, lament, song, invocations, spells, prayer, or similar phenomena. While readings will focus largely on music outside the western classical canon, students are encouraged to pursue research projects dealing with any pertinent musical practice, genre, style, period, or composition, including those associated with western art music or popular culture. Meets the seminar requirement for MM/PhD Musicology students, and the advanced musicology requirement for the DMA Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32821	Lecture-Discussion	WR	1:00PM -2:50PM	F	1 912 W Illinois	Kinderman, W Liebersohn, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Weimer Republic: Mus, Lit, Pol Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.