Description: (Same as Ethnomusicology M7C and Music History M10C.) Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Preparation: placement examination. Enforced requisite: course M10B with grade of C- or better. Introduction to study of music from three complimentary perspectives: its history, relation to culture, and creative structuring. Lectures from musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and composers/theorists combined with small sections in which students develop wide range of musicianship skills. Organized around broad ideas (performance, simultaneity, time, place, and more) where creative and cultural implications are explored through analysis and discussion of broad repertoire of musical works spanning historical eras and global cultures. Compositional exercises, production of short compositions, and short papers dealing with historical and cultural issues required. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0