Hearing Time

Catalog description

How can music be both ephemeral and eternal, bound to time while floating free of it? This course will survey musical expressions of time across a wide array of histories and genres both within and outside of Western art music. Spanning case studies from Renaissance prolation canons to Javanese Gamelan and durational performance art to J Dilla, we will uncover the ways in which time is made audible and embodied through performance. In addition to analysis of scores and recordings, we will study texts on temporality found across music, sound, film, and performance studies. Students will be assessed through several short creative projects throughout the semester. Basic fluency with Western notation is recommended, but not required. (MUSIC-HC)