MUS 236 provides an overview of the best-known musical styles and composers of Western classical music from the Middle Ages through the 21st century, with a particular focus on tonal music from roughly 1700-1925. Students learn about composers from marginalized groups whose music is increasingly understood as overdue for inclusion in the canon. Through close listening, musical analysis, reading, and discussion, students gain familiarity with the chronology and distinctive features of large- and small-scale works in a range of vocal and instrumental genres.

MUS 235 is an introduction to the methods of ethnomusicology and historical musicology as they are practiced today. Both fields explore a wide variety of music through a variety of approaches. Ethnomusicology typically uses methods including interviewing, transcription, and participant-observation to understand music-making today; historical musicology usually explores music of the past, often through archival research, analysis of notated musical scores, and synthesis of secondary literature.

This course offers a multi-sensory, active, collaborative exploration of the diverse range of relationships between music and the environment. Students learn about and creatively engage with topics including the aesthetic qualities and meanings of sonic environments, the use of recorded and live environmental sounds in musical works, compositions that evoke or imitate sounds from the natural world, and the use of music to convey environmental information and promote environmentalist messages.

This course explores the ways in which music can function in the community for the public good. Students engage with new and expectant families in the community to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies. Students should have basic proficiency on a chordal instrument (guitar, ukulele, piano, or keyboard) and be able to sing simple songs.

Designed to provide music business students with on-the-job experience with participating businesses. The student works with a faculty advisor to develop an individualized learning plan that connects the internship site experience to study in the major. The learning plan includes required reading, writing assignments, and a culminating project or paper. Registration is through Career and Employment Services.

Independent study is available to those students who wish to continue their learning in an area after completing the regularly offered courses in that area.

Independent study is available to those students who wish to continue their learning in an area after completing the regularly offered courses in that area.

Guided thesis in musicology. Topic and scope to be arranged between the student and faculty thesis advisor.

A selected musicological topic is studied in a seminar format. Emphasis is given to cultural and stylistic issues and to methods and techniques of musicological research, analysis, and writing. May be repeated for credit.

A selected ethnomusicological topic is studied in a seminar format. Emphasis is given to the relationships between performance practices and associated social contexts, as well as on the praxis and ethics of ethnographic research, analysis, and representation.