MUS 522

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Special Topics Seminar

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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of special topics in musicology, whether historical, ethnomusicological, or interdisciplinary in approach; seminar format.

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: MUS 528 A (consult Class Schedule for specific section information); Music and Sound Studies graduate minor; or consent of instructor. For graduate students in Music; this course is intended for performance and composition majors, especially DMA students seeking advanced musicology credit.

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MUS 522 class schedule data for fall 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
70495	Seminar	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	Music Building	Silvers, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Info: Topic: "GRANTWRITING IN MUSIC FIELDS." NOTE: MUS 528A is a prerequisite for Music graduate students and instructor permission is required for Graduate Minors in Sound Studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing. Restricted to students in the Music department.
78480	Seminar	B	2:00PM -4:50PM	F	Music Building	Bashford, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Info: Topic: "CONCERTS AND HISTORIES: MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, AND COMMUNITY FROM COURTLY EUROPE TO COVID-19." The concert has long been one of the principal forums for the performance and consumption of Western music, its continuities disrupted and subsequently adapted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. This seminar considers the concert as a musical, social, and cultural phenomenon through case-studies of concerts in Europe and North America from the 18th century to the COVID era, with special reference to primary sources, interpretative techniques, and work in the Digital Humanities. Some sessions will be devoted to events at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, providing students with a unique opportunity to engage with the collaborative Digital Humanities research project, The Internet of Musical Events (https://intermuse.datatodata.org/), which is shared between the University of Illinois and the University of York in the UK. Topics for discussion will include repertoire and programming; canon formation and disruption; community building; economics and arts management; performers and their drawing power; intersections with technology; rituals and etiquette; and modes of listening. Attendance at a KCPA concert will be required (tickets provided by KCPA). Assigned work will include short papers or reports, in-class discussion, short individual and/or collaborative presentations, and a final research project (culminating in a paper or mock pre-concert talk). NOTE: MUS 528A is a prerequisite for Music graduate students and instructor permission is required for Graduate Minors in Sound Studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing. Restricted to students in the Music department.
78498	Seminar	C	12:00PM -2:50PM	R	Music Building	Magee, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Info: Topic: "CRITICAL APPROACHES TO AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER." Through much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, musical theater has stood at the center of American culture, offering songs and stories that aimed to represent shared experience and confronting—through both comedy and drama, and sometimes implicitly—vexed issues around representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The course will focus on close, critical analysis of scripts, scores, and videorecordings of stage and screen productions (when available) of selected shows, supplemented with readings selected from the vast interdisciplinary literature of musical theater studies. Grading will be based on active classroom engagement and a variety of format options for demonstrating mastery of the subject matter, research discoveries, and and/or creative approaches to the material. NOTE: MUS 528A is a prerequisite for Music graduate students and instructor permission is required for Graduate Minors in Sound Studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing. Restricted to students in the Music department.
78825	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	Music Building	Eagen-Jones, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Info: Topic: "MAKING RENAISSANCE MUSIC." Oriented toward conductors, this hands-on course invites participation from graduates and upper-division undergraduates interested in renaissance choral and vocal ensemble repertoire. Emphasis is placed on cross-national genres, styles, and trends, and on the cultural contexts that shaped these idioms. Following a review, the course is organized geographically. Regions and associated styles of focus include France and Burgundy, the German-speaking territories, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, and England. Among other activities, students will sight sing from period notation, improvise polyphony, and complete exercises in music paleography. Students will also engage in discussions of primary source readings, relating to humanism, trade and intercultural exchange, the reformations, and print culture. Inclusivity is a priority; several sessions are dedicated to the exploration and celebration of women’s creative artistry; and two meetings investigate Jewish "converso" (forced conversion) culture and Hebrew-texted polyphony. The course concludes with graduate-led workshops. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Graduate class standing. Restricted to students in the Music department.