Spring Term 2015 Music & Mystical Experience - 3821 - MUHI 223 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: Sophomore standing Catalog Description : What is mystical experience? And how does music evoke, induce, or otherwise bring us into relation with it? These questions motivate a cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and diachronic exploration of the ways in which human beings experience the numinous through music. In the spirit of its title, the course also introduces specific contemplative practices in order to cultivate qualities of mind conducive to contemplative engagement with music and sound. PREREQUISITES: Sophomore standing Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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