“Course Summaries” will be listed below as they become available – simply click on the course title to view the course summary information. Special Topics courses may vary from year to year.
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- the TIME and LOCATION of courses is published in the Public Class Schedule
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- the OFFICIAL COURSE OUTLINE will be distributed at the first class of the term
- MUSI 1001 A, Classical Music History, Term: May-June
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- Instructor: John Higney
- MUSI 1001 is a survey of the major trends in western art music from the middle ages to the present. The materials and lectures of this course are designed to augment sensual musical experiences with knowledge of the principal genres, forms, and technical features of western art music. This intra-musical knowledge will be augmented with investigations of the extra-musical historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts that shape the creation and reception of musical works. By combining knowledge of intra-musical formal features with extra-musical historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts it is hoped that students will develop a deeper appreciation of music as culture: an appreciation that is both sensual and aesthetic.
- Course Work: lecture attendance, weekly reading and listening, three in-class listening quizzes, concert/cd report, in-class midterm examination, and a final examination.
- Required Text: Wright, Craig. Listening to Western Music, 7th ed. (and 2 cd bundle, purchased separately). Schirmer/Cengage Learning, 2014. Available at the Carleton University bookstore.
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- MUSI 1002 A, Issues in Popular Music, Term: May-June
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- Instructor: Alyssa Woods
- This course is designed to teach students to think critically about popular music. Throughout the semester, students will gain important interpretive skills for the study of popular music, with a strong emphasis on concepts and modes of thought. Issues discussed include: ideology, commodification, politics, technology, race, gender and sexuality, subcultures, production and consumption, geography, and globalization.
- Lecture format: Two weekly 1.5 hour lectures (0.5 credits)
- Evaluation: Midterm Exam (30%), Paper (30%), Final Exam (40%)
- Required Texts:
- 1) Shuker, Roy. Understanding Popular Music Culture, 4th edition. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- 2) Brackett, David, editor. The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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- MUSI 1002 B, Issues in Popular Music, Term: July-August
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- Instructor: Alyssa Woods
- This course is designed to teach students to think critically about popular music. Throughout the semester, students will gain important interpretive skills for the study of popular music, with a strong emphasis on concepts and modes of thought. Issues discussed include: ideology, commodification, politics, technology, race, gender and sexuality, subcultures, production and consumption, geography, and globalization.
- Lecture format: Two weekly 1.5 hour lectures (0.5 credits)
- Evaluation: Midterm Exam (30%), Paper (30%), Final Exam (40%)
- Required Texts:
- 1) Shuker, Roy. Understanding Popular Music Culture, 4th edition. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- 2) Brackett, David, editor. The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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- MUSI 2007 A, Popular Music after 1945, Term: May-June
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- Instructor: John Higney
- MUSI 2007 charts the development of Anglo-American popular musics from (roughly) 1945 to the present in terms of musical practices, genres, forms, and intra- and extra-musical stylistic features, persons, and scenes. In addition to these parameters, MUSI 2007a will also consider popular music from the perspectives of technology, music industries structures, audiences, mainstream and subcultural practices, ethnicity and race, gender, sexuality and sexual politics, and Canadian cultural policy and identity.
- Course Work: lecture attendance, weekly reading and listening, two in-class quizzes, concert report, in-class midterm examination, and a final examination.
- Required Text: Garofalo, Rebee and Rob Bowman. Rockin’ Out: Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2008. Available at the Carleton University bookstore.
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