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MUHST 100 Engaging with Music (3) A&H
Helps students understand their experiences making music in its broadest social and historical contexts. Includes hands-on projects involving personal, local, and university histories with music, as well as current events. Offered: W.
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MUHST 210 Introduction to the History of Western Music I (3) A&H
Introduction to the critical study of Western music history, including representative composers, works, and genres, as well as significant concepts and issues. Covers medieval and Renaissance periods. Prerequisite: MUHST 100; and MUSIC 203 or MUSIC 206, either of which may be taken concurrently. Offered: A.
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MUHST 211 Introduction to the History of Western Music II (3) A&H
Introduction to the critical study of Western music history, including representative composers, works, and genres, as well as significant concepts and issues. Baroque and classical periods. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 210; a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 203; and a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 206. Offered: W.
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MUHST 212 Introduction to the History of Western Music III (3) A&H
Introduction to the critical study of Western music history including representative composers, works, and genres as well as significant concepts and issues - nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 211. Offered: Sp.
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MUHST 301 Music and the American Experience (3) A&H/SSc
Survey of American music from the colonial period to the present day, with emphasis on in-depth examination of representative works from both cultivated and vernacular traditions. Prerequisite: MUHST 210; MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306. Offered: WSp.
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MUHST 310 Perspectives in Music History (3, max. 6) A&H/SSc
Overview of different stylistic periods in music history. Perspectives include music and philosophy, music and gender, and music and text. Students develop an insight into the manner in which similar questions have been approached in diverse cultures and periods. Prerequisite: MUHST 210; MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306. Offered: WSp.
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MUHST 311 Beethoven in Western Culture (3) A&H/SSc
Comprehensive study of Beethoven's works and their nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception, with consideration of how Western culture has used Beethoven's music in its constructions of subjectivity, genius, and national and other collective identities. Prerequisite: MUSIC 303; MUSIC 306; MUHST 210. Offered: WSp.
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MUHST 400 Medieval Music: To 1400 (3) A&H
Critical readings on issues in medieval music. Works to be studied include repertory from chant, motets, and sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages.
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MUHST 401 Early British Music: 1300-1700 (3) A&H
Examines the history of British music from its earliest polyphony through the music of Purcell. Stylistic features of English music studied, including medieval polyphony, Tudor music, Elizabethan music, and seventeenth-century music through Purcell.
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MUHST 402 Late Renaissance Secular Music: 1525-1630 (3) A&H
The madrigal in Italy, England, and Germany. The Chanson, Jannequin through Lassus.
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MUHST 403 Late Renaissance Sacred and Instrumental Music: 1525-1630 (3) A&H
Latin church music. Willaert through G. Gabrieli; early Reformation church music, Walther through Gibbons; instrumental music, Cabezon, the English virginal school, and Sweelinck.
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MUHST 404 Baroque Keyboard Music (3) A&H
Forms and styles: Frescobaldi through J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach.
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MUHST 405 Orchestral Music: 1620-1760 (3) A&H
Corelli though the Mannheim School. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 406 Baroque Choral Music (3) A&H
Monteverdi through Handel. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 407 Baroque Opera (3) A&H
Monteverdi through Handel.
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MUHST 408 Keyboard Music: 1760-1830 (3) A&H
Haydn through Schubert. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 409 Chamber Music: 1760-1830 (3) A&H
Haydn through Schubert. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 410 Orchestral Music: 1760-1830 (3) A&H
Haydn through early Berlioz.
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MUHST 411 Art Song, 1760-1830 (3) A&H
The art song in European culture during the classical and early Romantic periods. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 412 Choral Music: 1750-1830 (3) A&H
Large works for chorus and orchestra, Haydn through Beethoven.
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MUHST 413 Opera: 1750-1830 (3) A&H
Gluck through Bellini.
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MUHST 414 Keyboard Music: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
Schumann through Debussy. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 415 Chamber Music: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
Schumann through Ravel. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 416 Orchestral Music: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
Schumann and Mendelssohn through early Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 417 Art Song: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
The Lieder of Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Mahler, and Schoenberg. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 418 Choral Music: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
Selected choral masterpieces. Mendelssohn through Schoenberg.
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MUHST 419 Opera: 1830-1915 (3) A&H
German, French, and Italian operatic traditions. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 420 Authenticity and Performance (3) A&H
The practical and philosophical issues raised by historically informed performance of early music on period instruments. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 421 Music Criticism (3) A&H
Study of the various forms of music criticism, with an emphasis on the writing of valid examples and evaluation of one's own work along with that of others - classmates, journalists, and academic critics. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 422 Gender and Music (3) A&H/SSc, DIV
Investigates how gender issues have shaped the creation and perception of music; introduces women composers and their music. Topics include writing women's biography; creation of the music canon; gender issues in opera; intertwining issues of race, class, and gender, blues women; and popular music. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306. Offered: W.
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MUHST 423 Twentieth-Century Music to 1945 (3) A&H
Intensive study of selected composers and works exemplifying the new vocabularies, grammars, and styles of the early part of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 424 Music Since 1945 (3) A&H
Diversity of the contemporary musical scene. Vocabularies appropriate for the description and understanding of the new music, developed through study of representative composers and works, and appropriate readings. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 425 Jazz History and Analysis (3) A&H
Major eras and styles of jazz with emphasis on technical aspects of jazz music: composition, arranging, improvisation practices. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 426 American Popular Music (3) A&H
An in-depth consideration of American popular music styles and repertory from about 1920 to the present day. Analysis of representative pieces; consideration of critical and aesthetic issues relating to popular music; relationship of popular music to "art" music and to American culture and society. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 429 Music, Literature, and the Arts (3) A&H
Literary and visual art works that include musical subject matter and forms; musical genres that incorporate other arts such as opera and ballet. Related philosophical writings. Includes works of a particular time period or investigation of a specific problem in comparative arts. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 430 Special Topics in Opera (3, max. 9) A&H
Topics in the history of opera. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 212; a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 302; and a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 305.
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MUHST 431 Special Topics in Music and Dance (3, max. 6) A&H, DIV
Relationship between music and dance, combining readings in music scholarship with exploration of specific works and/or social dances. Topics vary by quarter. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 212; a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 302; and a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 305.
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MUHST 432 Special Topics in Film Music (3, max. 6) A&H
Explores the role of music in cinema, combining analysis of movies with readings in film-music scholarship. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 212; a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 302; and a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 305.
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MUHST 433 Special Topics in American Music (3, max. 6) A&H
History of music in the Americas. Includes reading in music scholarship as well as in-depth explorations of specific musical works. Topics vary by quarter. Prerequisite: a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUHST 212; a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 302; and a minimum grade of 2.0 in MUSIC 305.
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MUHST 497 Special Topics in Music History (1-5, max. 15) A&H
Topics vary each quarter. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in each of MUHST 210, MUSIC 303, and MUSIC 306.
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MUHST 500 Seminar in Methods of Music Research (3)
Explores various critical approaches to research in music at the graduate level, examining specialized bibliographical resources, controversial arguments about musical issues, and other matters of musical criticism required to begin advanced study of music. Prerequisite for all graduate music history courses except MUHST 515.
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MUHST 503 Readings in Medieval and Renaissance Music (5)
Musical styles, genres, and forms of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Focuses upon musicological problems and controversy related to music composed circa 1000 - 1600. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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MUHST 504 Seminar in Medieval Music (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 505 Seminar in Renaissance Music (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 506 Seminar in Baroque Music (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 508 Seminar in the Viennese Classical Period: 1760-1830 (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 509 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Music: 1830-1890 (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 510 Seminar in Music Since 1890 (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 515 Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Notation (5)
Gregorian chant through sixteenth-century prints.
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MUHST 519 Seminar in Modern Editorial Procedures (5)
Study of modern procedures for preparing critical editions. Related areas of study may include analysis of musical style and historical and performance problems inherent in works being edited.
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MUHST 520 Seminar in American Music (3, max. 6)
Research in the life, works, and times of composers in the United States from colonial days to the present. Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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MUHST 537 Seminar on Opera (3, max. 6)
Prerequisite: MUHST 500.
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