Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Musicology (MUCO)

  
  • MUCO 410 - Special Topics in Musicology

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary, drawn from historical, cultural, analytical, or musicological issues related to a musical genre, style, repertory, composer, or other.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
  
  • MUCO 411 - Music of Appalachia

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores the diverse, complex and frequently misunderstood music and culture of the Appalachian region. Topics include balladry, early fiddle and banjo styles, religious music, bluegrass, early country music, and Americana.
    Cross-listed: (Same as American Studies 411.)

  
  • MUCO 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores interdisciplinary 20th-century phenomena of performance and performativity, engaging with sexuality, feminisms, social constructions of gender, and identifications and presentations of the body. Consideration of ways in which performative expressions employ and encompass aspects of music, voice, and sound, drama, spoken word, film, visual arts, movement, and dance.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Women, Gender, and Sexuality 412.)

  
  • MUCO 413 - Music and the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduces music and related cultural expressions of the African diaspora connecting Africa, the Americas (especially North America) and Europe. Introduces interdisciplinary social theories, evaluates critical debates, and explores several case studies of African and African American music and performance.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Africana Studies 413.)

    Comment(s): Students who have taken MUCO 310 cannot receive credit for MUCO 413.
  
  • MUCO 414 - Music and Media

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores the role of music and sound as they intersect with visual and aural media. Topics may include gramophone and radio, film, television, computer technologies, and others. Focus on changing perceptions about music through new media from the perspectives of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, cinema studies, and allied disciplines.
  
  • MUCO 415 - Introduction to Music Therapy

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Overview of the field of Music Therapy, as an allied health profession, and in the context of the history of the profession. Examines various diagnoses within populations served by music therapists and details how music therapy is utilized within each population. Addresses current research in music therapy as a means to objectively support the field of music therapy and its evidence-based practices.
  
  • MUCO 460 - Music Aesthetics

    3 Credit Hours
    Nature of music and musical experience, sense perception and emotions, music, and the role of artist in society. Aesthetic viewpoint of individuals and historical eras through selected writings.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125
  
  • MUCO 480 - Music in Christian Worship

    3 Credit Hours
    Hymnody, liturgies, and liturgical music.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125
    Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
  
  • MUCO 540 - Medieval and Renaissance Music

    3 Credit Hours
    Musical phenomena from c. 900 to c. 1600, selected from chant, troubadour song, early polyphony, madrigal, mass, and motet. Genres considered against historical, cultural, analytical, and literary frameworks, including words-music relationships, the role of music in devotion, sacred and secular interchanges, oral and written transmissions.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 550 - Music in the Baroque Period

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of western European art music, c. 1600 to c. 1750, from historical and cultural perspectives. Genre, national identities, the roles of voices and instruments, the emergence of tonality, issues of gender, and music’s role in social, religious and performance practices.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 580 - Music in the 20th-Century

    3 Credit Hours
    Composers, repertories, and issues in twentieth-century art music of western Europe and the United States. New roles for composers and performers, confluences of high and low art forms, influences of technology, and music’s place in the formation of national, political, and gendered identities.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 585 - Topics in Music of the Americas

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical or cultural study of a topic concerned with music and musical practice in the Americans. Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 586 - Topics in Opera

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary within operatic repertory from the 17th -century to the present including music and drama; interdisciplinary, race, or gender studies; realism; nationalism; expressionism; minimalism.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • MUCO 587 - Music, Ethnography and the South

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduces current research methods and theories on music ethnography by exploring several communities associated with traditional, religious, and popular musics in the southern United States. Teaches methodologies and theories of field-based music research and ethnographic writing. Provides a foundation for further work as music ethnographers and offers insight into the study of music from this unique research perspective.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): MUSC 510.
    Recommended Background: MUCO 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 590 - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

    3 Credit Hours
    Ethnomusicology as scholarly discipline. History, theories, and methodologies as applied to study of music in culture.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUCO 595 - Seminar in Ethnomusicology

    3 Credit Hours
    Exploration of a methodological, theoretical, or ethnographic topic in ethnomusicology. Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 510.
    Recommended Background: 400.
  
  • MUCO 596 - Seminar in Historical Musicology

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary; specific musical genre, composer, or phenomenon.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.