Music Appreciation

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Over a century before his famous novel Les Misérables inspired the celebrated Broadway musical, Victor Hugo recognized the unique, expressive nature of music. This course explores as many different musical genres as possible in order to achieve a broad understanding of how music reflects culture and society and crosses artistic boundaries to express, as Hugo aptly articulated, "that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." The central objectives of this course are to encourage active listening skills and informed personal and communal responses to music through study of musical language, history, idioms, style, and trends. Cross-listed: MUS-1500(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and MUS-1500.