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MUSC 211 Western Art Music: Industrialization to the Internet Units: 3.00
Students will study the styles and meanings of Western art music from the Romantic period to that of the 21st Century. In addition to understanding this music's beauty and power, we will also examine the ways that narratives of Western art music from this period are imbricated with racism, sexism, ableism, and classism.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (MUSC 103/3.0 or MUTH 111/3.0) and (MUSC 104/3.0 or MUSC 105/3.0 or MUSC 191/6.0 or MUSC 192/3.0).
Exclusion MUSC 102/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe ways that music from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries reflects its socio-cultural context.
- Recognize and describe stylistic characteristics of Romantic, Twentieth, and Twenty-first century art musics.
- Describe specific ways that Western Art Music has been imbricated with systems of racism, sexism, ableism, and classism.
- Creatively employ discipline-specific theoretical skills and vocabulary to write about music in a variety of forms.
- Read academic articles, summarize, discuss, present, and write with greater clarity and persuasion.