MUSC 2055 - Music History Survey II

Credits: 3
The second in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music from the Middle Ages to the present. Student develop strategies for listening to the sounds of music in Western culture. Students identify the instruments, aesthetic structures, major composers and typical styles of musical works from the Romantic era through the present. Including critical comparison with non-Western and contemporary popular forms of music, students analyze the context, meaning, and historical impact of music in Western society.

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