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Winter Term 2019 TOP: MUSIC AND MEMORY - 1119 - MUCO 450
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Prerequisites/Notes: MUCO 202

Catalog Description : An examination of the historical development of a single genre, stressing the effects of societal changes. Topics in this series vary from year to year. May be repeated when topic is different.

Topic for Fall 2018: Cultural Histories of Sound Recording
Since the late nineteenth century, the history of music has been tied inextricably to the history of sound recording. In this course we will examine the impact of recorded sound on practices of composing, performing, preserving, and listening to music. We will study many examples of historical recordings, popular music recordings, and tape music compositions; we will read and discuss essays and articles by composers and performers, as well as material and cultural histories of recorded sound technologies. Discussion topics include: early ethnographic recording projects, the early history of the record industry, the use of historical recordings in musicological research and performance studies, magnetic tape, easy listening and background music, multitrack recording and other techniques of studio recording, hifi equipment, the long-playing record, tape music composition, mashups, mixtapes, turntablism, and sampling.


Topic for Fall 2018: The Madrigal
This course will examine the madrigal from multiple perspectives including modal analysis, histories of publication and material culture, politics and patronage, literature and poetry, gender, subjectivity and habits of listening an performance practice to consider how and why the genre contributed to and flourished in the artistic, social and political contexts of Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries


Topic for Fall 2018: Music and Disability
In this course we will pursue the multifaceted relationship between music and conceptions, constructions, and experiences of disability. Grounded in the field of Disability Studies, our exploration will involve performers, composers, and hearers; multiple musical genres, traditions, and practices; and issues of meaning, value, and difference. We will consider music’s power to reflect and configure bodies, attitudes, and ideas—to limit, but also to provide access to extraordinary possibilities.


Topic for Winter 2019: Concepts of Authenticity in Popular Music
In this course we will compare various models and measures of authenticity in popular music. The concepts of taste, artifice, appropriation, and reinvention will be explored and theorized alongside concepts of authenticity. Case studies will be drawn from an array of popular music genres, including folk, blues, country, singer-songwriter, rock, disco, punk, metal, grunge, hip hop, and indie pop. In addition to exploring the published scholarship on authenticity, we will analyze and discuss numerous popular music recordings, as well as music videos and other filmed musical performances. This course is writing-intensive.


Topic for Winter 2019: Music and Memory
An exploration of the diverse ways that musical creation, practice, and reception are bound up with memory. We will examine music and ideas from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on the ways music can function as, be affected by, create, invoke, and interrogate memory.


Topic for Spring 2019: Early Music Revivals
This course will examine when, where, how and why musicians have revived musical works and practices from the period roughly encompassing 800-1750 AD. In addition to studying early music movements, students will explore issues of performance practice and presentation by performing early musical works of their own choosing.


Topic for Spring 2019: Music and the Fairy Tale
This course will explore the ways that music embodies, constructs, deconstructs, interrogates, and communicates values and meanings in a variety of fairy tale contexts in popular and classical realms.



Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, 400-599 Advanced Course


Term

Winter Term 2019

Instructors

Julie McQuinn

Course

MUCO 450

Grade Mode

Standard

Title

TOP: MUSIC AND MEMORY

Final Exam

Wednesday, Mar 13, 2019 08:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

CRN

1119

Status

Active

Class Time

01:50 PM-03:00 PM MWF MUSI 259

Start-End Date

Jan 03, 2019-Mar 13, 2019

Campus

Appleton Main Campus

Units

6

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