Musicology Courses

COURSES IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY FOR NON-MUSIC MAJORS AND MUSIC MAJORS

3600 World Music (3) (Clayton) -- examines the indigenous music of numerous representative countries throughout today's world.  Any undergraduate at the University of Utah may take this course to meet its international requirement.

COURSES IN MUSIC HISTORY FOR MUSIC MAJORS

3630 Music History I: Antiquity - 1550 (3) (Rorke)

3640 Music History II: 1550-1800 (3) (Rorke)

3650 Music History III: 19th Century (3) (Basinger and Neimoyer)

3660 Music History IV: 1900 - Present/American Music, including many popular traditions (3) (Neimoyer)

Music 3630-3640-3650-3660 is the School of Music's two-year undergraduate survey of music history that examines music within the cultural context of Western civilization.

4610/6610 Music Literature: Renaissance (3) (Rorke)

4620/6620 Music Literature: Baroque (3) (Rorke)

4630/6630 Music Literature: Classical (3) (Greenan)

4640/6640 Music Literature: Romantic (3) (Basinger)

4650/6650 Music Literature: 1900 to Present (3) (Neimoyer)

4660/6660 Music Literature: American (3) (Greenan)

These 4600/6600-level courses provide advanced study (for seniors/graduate students) of issues related to these eras/regions and their music, including aesthetics, compositional techniques, performance practices, and social contexts.

4970 Senior Project: Thirty-page paper of original research (2)

6010 Music Bibliography (2) (Greenan)

Students learn how to locate, use, and evaluate information resources and explore the reference materials and literature.

6670/7670 Symphonic Literature (3) (Basinger)

6680/7680 Opera Literature (3) (Neimoyer)

7210 Performance Practice I (3) Renaissance through Baroque

7211 Performance Practice II (3) Classical to Present

6800/7800 Research Seminar in Musicology: Renaissance (3) (Rorke)

6801/7801 Research Seminar in Musicology: Baroque (3) (Rorke)

6803/7803 Research Seminar in Musicology: Romantic (3) (Neimoyer)

6804/7804 Research Seminar in Musicology: 1900 to the Present (3) (Neimoyer)

These seminars explore methodologies and critical/analytical approaches employed in creating research pertinent to these various periods.

6917 Thirty-page paper of original research for the M.M. degree in Music History and Literature (3)

6970 Master's Thesis (80-100 pages) -- original research for the M.A. degree in Musicology (6)