Practical Approaches to Music Theory and Analysis

3 cr · Undergraduate

This course offers an introduction to the study of music as a cultural, social, and artistic practice. Students will learn about, and gain experience employing, the methods and intellectual traditions of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and Indigenous studies in music, by which they might seek to understand the roles of music in societies, institutions, politics, communities, identities, histories, and in people’s lives. It will also introduce students to important resources for academic research in these areas and strategies for communicating about music.