Analytical Approaches to Rhythm, Metre, and Dance

3 cr · Undergraduate

This course explores music and dance forms from a variety of traditions, investigating the new theoretical ideas, technologies, and notation systems that have recently been designed to engage these diverse repertoires. Students will transcribe and analyze the rhythmic-metric structures of these interrelated art forms using a variety of cutting-edge theoretical tools and concepts, and explore the power that choreographed and improvised physical gestures have to shape and transform the way we listen to and perform music itself. Not to be held with MUSC 3820 or MUSC 3830 when titled Analytical Approaches to Rhythm, Metre, and Dance.