MUS 3340 - Topics in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Music

Goals: Designed for nonmajors and majors, the course will explore issues in the music of the 20th century. The impact of wars, of political systems, of technology, of gender and race, the import of expressionism, of impressionism, of technical systems, and of the conflict between classical and popular cultures; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.

Content: American music, serialism, electronic music, new structural principles.

Taught: Alternate years

Credits: 4