Topics in Music Theory

Harvard FAS

Analytical Approaches to Musical Interculturality. This graduate seminar explores scholarly debates on musical interculturality from the perspective of music analysis. Focusing primarily on music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course will examine how discourses surrounding identity, power, diaspora, and geopolitics have presented new possibilities for close listening and analysis, and how music theorists have engaged in analysis as a form of political critique. Topics of…