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 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32824	Seminar	A	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	Music Building	Takao, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Title: Thinking Global in Mus Hist Section Info: Topic: "THINKING GLOBAL IN MUSIC HISTORY." Developing in line with intersecting calls for relational and decolonial methodologies in musicology, the so-called “global turn” has been seized as an opportunity to address the structurally embedded centrisms that favor the Anglo West and to equalize global perspectives in the study of all musics and their histories. At the heart of these considerations of the geopolitics of knowledge is the emergent, if not contended, field of “global music history.” In this seminar we will explore the analytical terrain that this burgeoning field shares with several approaches to the historical study of our world’s musics concerned with forms of transfer, interaction, entanglement, and cross-border exchange, some of which have a longer scholarly heritage and have developed in distinct ways. In doing so, we will engage in discussion that bridges the theories and methods of social and cultural history, ethno/musicology, and the broader concerns of global historiography. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to students in the Music department.
	32821	Seminar	B	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Title: Music and Cosmology 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. This semester course materials will pay special, but not exclusive, attention to two intertwined sub-themes: 1) sensorial spirituality, or the work and interplay of the senses in facilitating and enhancing mystical experience and spiritual practice, with sound at the center; and 2) acoustemological case studies in which sound, belief, and local ecology (nature, the environment, senses of place) are intrinsically interwoven—and even interdependent. Class readings include key ethnographic studies, fundamental texts in the anthropology and ethnomusicology of belief systems and ritual practice, and the instructor’s own research-in-progress. While these readings largely address music cultures outside the concert canon, students are encouraged to explore research projects dealing with any pertinent musical practice, genre, style, historical era, or composition from anywhere in the world, including those associated with Euro-American art music, popular culture, or their legacies. This course meets the seminar requirement for MM/PhD Musicology students, and fulfills the advanced musicology requirement for the DMA. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to Music or Musicology major(s).