Music

This course is designed to sharpen the student's listening attention to enrich his/her listening experience. The course attempts to accomplish this by moving from its language components to Western music's masterworks in easy steps. World popular music is also included.

This course provides an introductory survey of non-western music traditions within the field called ethnomusicology. This course explores how music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is performed. The syllabus will guide the study of music in terms of musical instruments, sounds, forms, and their functions in the culture and society that supports them. Music studied includes the Middle East, Africa, India, Australia, China, and Japan.