MUS240

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Music in the American Century

Music College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

MUS

Course Number

240

Status

Inactive

Course Attributes

MMUS: Major-Music, NARD: Minor-Performing Arts Admin, NDAN: Minor-Dance, ENAM: Minor-American Stud Elective, NAME: Minor-American Studies, NMSC: Minor-Music

Course Short Title

Music in the American Century

Course Long Title

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Course Description

A broad survey of American music from John Adams to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. May examine neo-romantic trends in the music of Samuel Barber, Amy Beach and John Corigliano, the transcendentalism of Charles Ives, the American West in Aaron Copland, jazz in the music of Leonard Bernstein and the innovations of minimalist composers Phillip Glass and Steve Reich, and the new directions of the "avant-garde" from John Cage to Pauline Oliveros.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Restrictions

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Equivalent Course(s)

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