Courses
Academic Courses
Musicology and Music History
- MUS M400 Undergraduate Readings in Musicology (arr. cr.)
- MUS M401 History and Literature of Music I (4 cr.) P: T252 Music Theory and Literature IV or equivalent. History of music from beginnings of Western civilization to 1750. Style analysis, visual and aural, of representative compositions, and relationship of music to sociocultural background of each epoch.
- MUS M402 History and Literature of Music II (4 cr.) P: T252 Music Theory and Literature IV or equivalent. History of music from 1750 to the present. Style analysis, visual and aural, of representative compositions, and relationship of music to sociocultural background of each epoch.
- MUS M410 Composer or Genre (3 cr.) P: M401-M402 History and Literature of Music I-II. Life and works of representative composers in historical context or survey of a major musical genre and its historical evolution. Emphasis on stylistic development in the music literature studied.
- MUS M502 Composers: Variable Topics (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, and M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I or M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II as appropriate, or equivalents. Life and works of representative composers in the cultural and historical context of their eras; emphasis on the development of individual style through analysis of characteristic works. May be repeated for different composers only.
- MUS M510 Topics in Music Literature (3 cr.) Inquiry into selected aspects of music literature and history related to specific repertories, genres, styles, performance practices/ traditions, historiography, or criticism. Research project required. May be repeated for different topics only.
- MUS M525 Survey of Operatic Literature (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I and M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II, or equivalents. Emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- MUS M527 Symphonic Literature (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I, and M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II, or equivalents. Orchestral music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- MUS M528 Chamber Music Literature (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I and M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II, or equivalents. Emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- MUS M539 Introduction to Music Bibliography (2-3 cr.) Music reference and research tools in all areas of music, use of library resources and networks, and bibliographic style and technique. Formal paper required.
- MUS M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I (3 cr.) Designed to satisfy deficiencies indicated by the graduate entrance examination in music history and literature. Before 1750. Removal of deficiency requires a grade of C or higher.
- MUS M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II (3 cr.) Designed to satisfy deficiencies indicated by the graduate entrance examination in music history and literature. After 1750. Removal of deficiency requires a grade of C or higher.
- MUS M551 Introduction to Historical Musicology (3 cr.) Survey of bibliography and problems and methods of historical research.
- MUS M556 Research in the History and Literature of Music (1-3 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. For advanced students in music literature or musicology desiring to do research in non-course areas of music literature.
- MUS M602 Seminar in Musicology: Variable Topics (3 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward Ph.D.
- MUS M603 Methods of Musical Scholarship: Variable Topics (3 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. For advanced students in musicology and music theory. May be taken more than once for credit toward the Ph.D.
- MUS M650 Music in the United States (3 cr.) A musical and cultural history emphasizing the coexistence and intersections of a variety of imported and indigenous, written and oral, traditions, including concert music, opera, Native American music, popular song, jazz, blues, musical theater and film, Tin Pan Alley, rock, spirituals and other religious idioms.
- MUS M651 Medieval Music (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
- MUS M652 Renaissance Music (3 cr.) M652 Renaissance Music (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
- MUS M653 Baroque Music (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
- MUS M654 Classic Music (3 cr.) M654 (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I, M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
- MUS M655 Romantic Music (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I, M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
- MUS M656 Music Since 1900 (3 cr.) P: M541 Music History Review for Graduate Students I, M542 Music History Review for Graduate Students II and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents. This course is exempt from the Incomplete rule.
- MUS M698 Individual Seminar in Musicology (3 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward the Ph.D.
- MUS M700 Dissertation in Musicology (arr. cr.) This course is eligible for deferred (R) grading.
