Music

• CAS MU 117: Music Appreciation I
  Introduction to music through study of representative styles and forms in the history of Western music. Music as a changing language of human communication. No prior musical experience required. Lectures, performances. CAS MU 118 continues but does not presuppose CAS MU 117. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS MU 118: Music Appreciation II
  Introduction to music through study of representative styles and forms in the history of Western music. Music as a changing language of human communication. No prior musical experience required. Lectures, performances. CAS MU 118 continues but does not presuppose CAS MU 117. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS MU 229: Masterpieces of Opera
  History of opera from late-Renaissance experiment through Handel, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Berg, Stravinsky, Britten, Harbison. Emphasis on opera as a complex, multimedia genre continually redefining itself, its (often) noble aims conflicting with financial realities, inflated egos, a fickle public. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS MU 230: Mozart
  Study of Mozart's work in major genres--sonata, symphony, quartet, concerto, opera--viewed in the context of rapidly changing eighteenth-century political and intellectual currents: equality vs absolutism, free-market economy vs aristocratic patronage, freemasonry vs the church. Origins of the "Amadeus" myths.
• CAS MU 401: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS MU 402: Sr Indep Work
  
• CAS MU 491: Directed Study
  
• CAS MU 492: Directed Study
  

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