MUSC 302 - Musical Modernisms and Postmodernisms

This course looks at the wide expanse of Western musical activity in the 20th century and looks for continuity where there might seem to be none. We will consider inter-connected questions of history, aesthetics, and technique, moving chronologically and taking a composer-oriented rather than stylistic or nationalistic approach. Our historical inquiry will be grounded in the historiographical frameworks of modernism and postmodernism. We will explore compositional techniques through analysis and model composition, including: the atonal and serial works of the Second Viennese School, avant-garde jazz, French spectral music and microtonal music, American minimalist music, and noise.

Prerequisites
MUSC 114 Music Theory I: Fundamentals of Harmonic Practice or Permission of Instructor

Credits 4

Area
Creative Arts

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Creative Arts