MUS 165Music Appreciation

Catalog

An introduction to music, this course will enable students with various backgrounds in music to listen to music more intelligently. Students will learn about the historical-cultural aspects of music as an art and its development in the great style periods, along with the lives of the leading figures and the world they inhabited. There will be an emphasis on musical styles, forms, and media. This course will encompass music from the medieval period through the twentieth century.