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MUS 480. Advanced Seminar in Musicological Topics


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 011939 Grading Basis GRD

An intensive study of a single topic in musicology or ethnomusicology. Topics change each semester, and may include studies of a specific musical issue (performance practice, etc.), a single composer’s music, a single musical genre (the string quartet, etc.), or music at a specific time and/or place (music in fin de siecle Paris, music in modern South Africa, the second Viennese school, etc.). Fulfills the College of Visual and Performing Arts  writing-intensive requirement for the major. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): MUS 380  and MUS 381 .