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 243: Music as Social Experience
  From various theoretical perspectives, investigates how musical practice interacts with social ideas and understandings. Topics include gender relationships in Bizet's Carmen, the spiritual efficacy of Tibetan Buddhist chant, dystopia in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, and the politics of Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance.
• 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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