The Musical World of a 20th-Century Composer

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Course Description: Overview of concert music by a significant twentieth-century composer outside the United States (for example: Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Olivier Messiaen, Osvaldo Golijov, Tan Dun, Kaija Saariaho). Lectures, discussion/guided listening sections, and selected readings. For non-majors.