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At the undergraduate level, the department offers several highly
successful General Education
courses (History of Rock and Roll,
The Beatles,
Film Music, American Popular Song, History of Opera, The Symphony,
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, History of Jazz, American Musicals, Electronic
Dance Music, Music & Gender, and Gay & Lesbian Popular Music).
It also provides the required History of Music sequence
for majors
in the Music Department, as well as undergraduate seminars on a variety
of topics. Recent topics have included: Motown; Bach cantatas; Television
music; Mozart operas; Feminist Criticism; Music, Media and Consumer
society; Nationalism; Mahler; and Stravinsky.
The undergraduate major in Music History was established soon after
the Department became part of the College, and it now has about
40 students. This major is designed to provide training
in the study of music for liberal arts students who do not wish
to
pursue
a
degree in performance. In 1994, the Department instituted a Music
History
minor, which currently has about 45 students. Given the new areas
of popular music studies, film scores, and music criticism offered
by the
current
musicology
faculty,
the
undergraduate major is being tailored to satisfy the needs of students
who wish to study music in popular culture, as well as those concerned
with classical music.
For degree requirements of the Music History major, click
here. For more information on Musicology Undergraduate Study, click here.
For information regarding the undergraduate major please contact Professor
Elisabeth Le Guin , Undergraduate Faculty Advisor at (310) 206-1088, or the Musicology Department's Student Affairs
Officer, Barbara Van Nostrand
at (310) 206-5187.
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