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 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32821	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	Music Building	Silvers, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Title: Music, Gender, and Sexuality Section Info: In this seminar, we will examine how practices of music-making, listening, and fandom participate in the construction of gender and sexual identities, the ways gender and sexuality are encoded in sound and musical gesture, and relationships between music, bodies, and desire. Literature will concern musics and identity formations from a range of cultural perspectives. We will also read relevant feminist and queer scholarship from outside the music disciplines. (This course is affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.) Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32824	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	Music Building	Macklin, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Info: TOPIC: "Time and Music Before Clocks and Metronomes." It's often said that music is a temporal art, but what does that mean? After all, when he asked himself what time itself was, St. Augustine of Hippo said, "I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled." In this class, we will explore a number of ways Augustine’s question has been answered, and the degrees to which music both reflects and problematizes the way people and groups engage with time. Exploring a wide range of topics ranging from tempo rubato, tactus or "felt time", concepts of circularity and linearity in temporal organization, and religious and natural philosophical conceptions of time, the goal of the class is to acquire a deeper understanding of time as both a physical and cultural entity whose experience is an essential part of music-making and music perception. Though intended primarily for graduate students in music, the course is open to any UIUC graduate student with advanced knowledge of music, history, religion, philosophy, literature, or medieval studies and possessing at least a basic familiarity with western classical music. If you are unsure of whether your background has prepared you for this course, please email Dr. Macklin (cmacklin@illinois.edu) to ascertain whether the course is appropriate for you. Restriction(s): Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.