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Mozart to Mitski and Bach to Beyonce

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  • College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Music
  • First-Year Seminar Grant
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Hopefully without leaving out Dowland or Dylan, this seminar will focus on songs from wide-ranging eras. Intended not as a survey course, but rather as one in which we bring acute focus to selected music, our goals will include the development of skills in hearing and in articulating what you hear, learning new repertoire, bringing fresh ears to music you may already know, asking effective questions about music itself as well as about how music figures in our lives. Regular assignments will include listening, reading, and both analytical and reflective writing. There will be a final paper and an in-class presentation. Written work will be done in prose, with occasional options to compose in response to the music we are studying. (Composing is an option and not a requirement for the class.)

  • 2023
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Department of Music
  • First-Year Seminar
  • Teaching Art Grant

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