Course Descriptions
Music, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
MUSC: Music
- MUSC 100 (3) Principles of Musical Form
- Fundamental materials and processes of music - rhythmic, melodic, textural, and harmonic - and how they create small-scale structures in a variety of styles. Compositional and analytical applications. Training in listening, sight-singing, and score-reading skills. [3-0-0]
- MUSC 103 (3) Introduction to the Theory of Music
- Concepts of rhythm, pitch, timbre, and texture; notation and aural recognition of rhythmic and pitch patterns; basic principles of melody and form. [3-0-0]
- MUSC 110 (3) Understanding Music
- Fundamental skills for understanding and appreciating Western art music. For students with little or no musical training. [3-0-0]
- MUSC 115 (3) Popular Music and Visual Cultures
- A survey of changing attitudes toward class, ethnicity, gender, and ideology as reflected in folk, blues, jazz, rock, and hip-hop music and their accompanying visual cultures from the early 20th century to the early 21st century. Credit will be granted for only one of MUSC 115 or ARTH 115. [3-0-0]
Equivalency: ARTH 115. - MUSC 120 (3) History of Music I
- Introductory survey of music and musical values in Western and selected non-Western societies through humanistic, cultural, historical, and musical-analytical perspectives. [3-0-0]
- MUSC 121 (3) History of Music II
- The development of Western music from circa 1500 to circa 1750. [3-0-0]
- MUSC 324 (3) Sound Art and Experimental Music
- A study of selected alternatives to formal compositions performed by skilled professionals, ranging from avant-garde experiments in noise and chance to sound art and audio-narrative for performances and installations. Credit will be granted for only one of MUSC 324 or ARTH 324. [2-0-2]
Prerequisite: Third-year standing.
Equivalency: ARTH 324.
