| Spring Term 2026 TOP: IDENT & THE AMERC MUSICAL - 4098 - MUCO 450 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: MUCO 212 Catalog Description : A study of a particular time and place, examining the relationship between social institutions, intellectual ideas, and music products. Topics in this series vary from year to year. May be repeated when topic is different. TOPICS FOR Fall 2025: Divine Love in 17th-century Music PREREQUISITES: MUCO 212 In this course, we will examine musical depictions of the mystical union between the earthly and the divine in 17th-century sacred music. Through this study, we will come to better understand 17th-c spirituality, the role of music in spiritual life, and the theological aims and earthly politics of musical representations of divine love. We will learn how to engage with musickings from different perspectives, including modal analysis, tonal analysis, carnal musicology, and performance practice studies. We will also come to new understandings about early modern gender, sexuality, embodiment, and power. TOPICS FOR Winter 2026: Music and Colonialism in the Early Modern Era PREREQUISITES: MUCO 212 In this course, we will explore the role of music in colonialism from the 15th through the 18th centuries. We will learn to critique colonial-era primary source materials including musical works, traveler’s accounts, and images. We will also engage a wide variety of secondary sources, including postcolonial and decolonial scholarship, indigenous perspectives, and contemporary performances that engage with colonial pasts and presents. TOPICS FOR Spring 2026: Music in the 1920s PREREQUISITES: MUCO 212 In this course we will explore music in the 1920s from a variety of perspectives. Topics will include: early radio and the record industry, the songs of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway, modernist and experimental composition, machine music, vaudeville and cabaret song, blues, jazz, old-time music, the music of the Harlem Renaissance and Afrocubanismo, and vernacular genres first recorded during the 1920s in cities all over the world. Each student will undertake an independent research project on a topic of their choice. TOPICS FOR Spring 2026: Music and the Fairy Tale PREREQUISITES: MUCO 212 In this course we will pursue the potentialities of fairy tale musickings. Focusing primarily on film and opera, we will wonder about valuings, meanings, and worldmaking possibilities in fairy tale contexts. We will explore desires, identities, relationships, embodiments, virtualities, agencies, systems of power, boundary crossings, and magic technologies. We will practice reading, listening, and making with the multivalences of speculative fictions and imagination. Attributes: Music Course, GER Fine Arts Div, GER Writing Intensive, 400-599 Advanced Course
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