Forensic Musicology in Theory and Practice

Catalog description

Forensic musicologists often serve as expert witnesses in court. In this course, students will (i) examine and evaluate the ways in which the techniques of music theory and analysis have been used in service of forensic musicology; (ii) assess the persuasiveness of existing forensic-musicological analyses by studying significant music copyright cases; (iii) prepare forensic analyses, both for and against claims of copyright infringement, using hypothetical cases; and (iv) be able to situate current standard of forensic-musicological within the larger history of music and intellectual property. Only one of A MUS 280 or A MUS 380 may be taken for credit. Prerequisite(s): A MUS 245 or permission of instructor.