Timbre: Critical Discussions

3 Credits

This course critically examines timbre by engaging with the following questions: What is timbre, and how is it related to sound? What scholarship has addressed timbre and in what ways? How can we discuss and write about timbre effectively? By exploring timbre in classical and popular music genres, as well as in specific works, and by considering timbre through lenses such music education and race, we seek to better understand what some scholars argue is a rather nebulous phenomenon.