Contemporary Music (MUS 260)
Term: Academic Year 2010-11 - Fall
Faculty
There is not currently a faculty member for this course
Schedule
Tue-Thu, 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM (9/7/2010 - 9/9/2010) Location: MAIN WHELR 112
Tue-Thu, 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM (9/7/2010 - 12/17/2010) Location: MAIN WHELR 110
Description
Students survey important avant-garde and post avant-garde musical works and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries and examine relevant cultural shifts, innovations, and techniques that form the underpinnings of the music. The significant parallels between contemporary music and contemporary visual arts are also addressed. Musical styles such as atonality, serialism, minimalism, electronic and electroacoustic music will be considered. Course Fee. Connections Curriculum; Humanities.