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.

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Musicology; Music and Sound Studies graduate minor; or consent of instructor. Graduate students in music will be considered if they passed MUS 528 A (consult Class Schedule for specific section information).

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MUS 523 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32824	Seminar	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Section Info: Topic: "MUSIC, DEATH, AND COMMEMORATION." "Songs and Dances of Death." "Death and Transfiguration." "Death and the Maiden." "Pavane for a Dead Princess." Dido’s "Lament." "Isle of the Dead." Mahler’s "Kindentotenlieder." Schubert’s "Erlkönig." Countless requiems, from Mozart to Britten and beyond. Whether as dramatic device, commemorative vehicle, grief-stricken expression, artistic inspiration, or personal vision, few topics have intrigued composers of art music in the Euro-American tradition more than death and dying. Indeed, musical practices play a critical role in death, mourning, and mortuary rites and customs throughout the world, yet with the possible exception of lament, these activities have only occasionally been the focus of scholarly attention. Drawing upon literature from anthropology, campanology, folklore, ethnomusicology, historical musicology, psychology, neuroscience, and the medical fields, as well as the instructor’s own research, this graduate ethnomusicology seminar looks cross-culturally at the experience of death and how that experience is heard, sounded, signified, mediated, managed, memorialized, and defied musically. Course topics may include music in dramas of disposal; music and the politics of death; sonic visions of dying, death, and the afterlife; musical commemorations and remembrances; lamentation; posthumous aurality; and the musical poetics of grief, loss, and abandonment, among others. Students will be expected to read widely and to conduct original research resulting in a creative or written project appropriate to their degree program and career aspirations. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.