MUS 523

Spring 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 25-May 5

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 spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52671	Online	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	n.a.	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Info: TOPIC: "Music and Cosmology." 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. While readings will focus largely on genres and traditions outside the sphere of Euro-American classical music and its legacies, students are encouraged to pursue research projects dealing with any pertinent musical practice, genre, style, period, or composition. Meets the seminar requirement for MM/PhD Musicology students, and the advanced musicology requirement for the DMA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.
	34786	Online	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	F	n.a.	Takao, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Info: TOPIC: "Music and the Early Modern Jesuits." Since the turn of the last century, the field of “Jesuit Studies” has gained significant traction. Exploration of this male Catholic order, who broke the mold of monastic mores in the 16th, has increasingly focused on their changing relationship to music and sound in the early modern era. This seminar reflects the necessity of interdisciplinary perspectives for thinking about the history of the Jesuits and their role in the development of European sacred and secular musics and their exportation and adaptation throughout global missions between the 16th and 18th centuries. This seminar will focus on the reading of both primary (musical scores, libretti, treatises, letters, etc.) and secondary sources, offering students the opportunity to critically engage with early-modern documents as well as the ways in which scholars in musicology, theater studies, religious studies, and art history, frame analyses of these materials. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.