MUSC 2050 - Music History Survey I

Credits: 3
The first in a series of two courses on the history and literature of music. Students 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 Baroque through early 19th-century Romanticism. 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.