Honors Music Appreciation

Catalog description

A broad survey of music in the Western world, including terminology for describing musical elements, forms, and styles. This Honors course is organized to acquaint students with the roles of music and musicians in society and with representative musical selections through listening, reading, writing, and live performance. It offers an enriched experience for accelerated students by means of limited class size, seminar format, discussions and projects generated and led by students, a focus on primary texts in translation, and the applications of higher-level thinking and writing skills--analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Students may not receive credit for both MUS-19 and MUS-19H. 54.00 hours lecture. (Letter grade only)