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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