2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MUSC 103 - Post-Music


This course will explore music-making and listening since World War II from theoretical, musical, and historical perspectives. By listening to examples and reading writings by philosophers, composers, and historians, students will be introduced to the study of new musics that have emerged in the West since 1945. There will be a primary emphasis on musics in the Western art music tradition that incorporate avant-garde or experimental elements (including serialism, minimalism, early electroacoustic and synthesizer music, and aleatoric composition). However, jazz and popular musics will also be considered, with consideration of e.g. free jazz, fusion, psychedelic and progressive rock, noise-rock, and ambient electronica.

Fulfills the Aesthetic Perspective requirement

Course Designation/Attribute: AP

Anticipated Terms Offered: every other year