Music Love & Death: The Earth

Catalog description

This course studies American and European music with additional material taken from around the world and mostly of a current nature. The focus is upon the intersection of the human experience of love and death as recorded in music. The student studies popular music from many countries, classical music, contemporary art music, and ancient music, the texts of the music, the social structure that that music was created in, and finally the morals that sit behind the music are all investigated and critiqued. This course fulfills the undergraduate fine arts core requirement and the fourth E/RS course requirement of the core curriculum. Course Attributes: Creative Persp / Explorations, Environ Science/Studies Elect, ERS Focus Elective College of Arts & Sciences Music & Theatre