Students will learn how to approach and critique musical works from several contrasting perspectives, including that of a Hollywood producer, a Soviet-era Marxist, a feminist, a church pastor, a cultural anthropologist, a postmodernist, a sociobiologist, a behavioral ecologist, as well as other perspectives.
Analytic approaches will include functionalism, hermeneutics, memetics, idiomaticism, evolutionism, anthropology, fashion, cognitivism, commerce, socialist realism, critical theory and postmodernism.
Music 839B is offered as 3 credit-hour course. If you wish to take this course for 5 credit hours, please enroll in Music 693 (Individualized Studies) call number 13676-8 I. Additional course assignments will be required for those students wishing to take the course for 5 credit hours.
The course has no formal pre-requisites. Graduate standing is required.
Classes are held on the Ohio State University Campus. For the Winter 2004 quarter, the class will be meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:18 PM in the Music & Dance Library, seminar room 066.
The registration call number for the Winter 2004 offering of this course is 14075-6 D.
The primary objective of Music 839B is to expose students to a variety of conceptual perspectives for understanding music. Problems in relating each perspective to the organization of the music will be stressed.
The course objectives are pursued through classroom lectures, demonstrations, and class discussions.
There is no text for this course. A set of readings will be made available through Ohio State University library reserve system.
Resources for this course can be found on the world-wide web at: http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music839B/
Web-based resources include a course bibliography.
The workload for Music 839B entails three hours of lecture/demonstrations each week, plus approximately two hours of additional reading (roughly 20 pages) per week.
The final course grade will be based on the following. Extra assignments for students pursuing 5 credit-hours are marked with an asterisk (*).
*Assignment #1* due Jan. 13, 2004 (5%) *Assignment #2* due Jan. 27, 2004 (5%) Assignment due Feb. 10, 2004 25% (*10%*) *Assignment #4* due Feb. 24, 2004 (5%) Class Participation 25% Final Examination March 16, 2004 50%
Dr. David Huron
Mershon Auditorium, Room 502
Telephone: 688-4753 (Wk.) 268-8992 (Hm.)
E-mail: huron.1@osü.edü [Ignore the umlauts; they are present to foil web crawlers.]
Students are encouraged to arrange to discuss any aspect of their course work. No appointments are necessary, however meeting times can be assured by telephoning Prof. Huron to make an appointment. If you are unable to reach the instructor on the telephone, remember to leave a message giving your name and telephone number.