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department Music History (X) |
Lecture, four hours. Designed for Music History minors. Survey of issues and methods of music history and criticism for nonmajors. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of music of Western classical tradition, with emphasis on historical context, musical meanings, and creation of the tradition itself. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Analysis of forms, practices, and meanings of rock and roll music, broadly conceived, from its origin to the present. Emphasis on how this music has reflected and influenced changes in sexual, racial, and class identities and attitudes. Letter grading.
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Seminar/laboratory, three hours. Designed to help entering graduate students remedy entrance deficiencies. S/U grading.
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Seminar/laboratory, three hours. Designed to help entering graduate students remedy entrance deficiencies. S/U grading.
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Lecture, four hours; film viewing, two hours. History of music and cinema, particularly ways music is used to produce meanings in conjunction with visual image. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Survey of groove-based electrified dance music from its origins in 1960s' pop and soul to present, covering disco, house, techno, ambient, rave, and jungle. Emphasis on interaction of technology, musical structures, psychoactive drugs, and club cultures to induce "altered states" of musical consciousness; promise (versus reality of) political and spiritual transformation; electronic dance music as new "art" music. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. American popular music before advent of rock and roll in 1950s, with special emphasis on song tradition of Tin Pan Alley. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Guided interactive tour of contemporary musical landscape. Current events in historical perspective, with special attention to questions of culture, taste, and value hierarchies. Discussion and evaluation of representative works and practices from avant-garde, mainstream, world, and popular spheres. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Emphasis on learning specific skills, incorporating technical description, historical contextualization, subjective reaction, and certain stylistic conventions necessary in writing about music. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Course 26A is enforced requisite to 26B, which is enforced requisite to 26C. Students must receive a grade of C- or better to proceed to next course in sequence. History and literature of music from ancient world to 1815, with emphasis on analysis of representative works of each style period. Materials selected illustrate history of style and changing techniques of composition. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 26A with a grade of C- or better. History and literature of music from ancient world to 1815, with emphasis on analysis of representative works of each style period. Materials selected illustrate history of style and changing techniques of composition. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 26B with a grade of C- or better. History and literature of music from ancient world to 1815, with emphasis on analysis of representative works of each style period. Materials selected illustrate history of style and changing techniques of composition. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Preparation: ability to read music. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music. Some coordination with content of courses 26A, 26B, 26C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Preparation: ability to read music. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music. Some coordination with content of courses 26A, 26B, 26C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Preparation: ability to read music. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music. Some coordination with content of courses 26A, 26B, 26C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Survey of American musical in 20th century, beginning with its roots in operetta, vaudeville, and Gilbert and Sullivan, and focusing on its connections to politics, technology, film, opera, and variety of popular musical styles, including Tin Pan Alley, jazz, and rock. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 132.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for students who do not read music. Life, works, and mythology of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in context of both his age and our own. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 133.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for undergraduate students. Life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of developments in post-World War II African American popular music, with special attention to musical achievements of Motown Records, Stax, and other rhythm and blues, funk, and soul music centers of production. Relationships between musical forms and cultural issues of 1960s, including Civil Rights Movement, counterculture, black nationalism, capitalism, and separatism, and larger dimensions of African American experience as mediated through groove-based music. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 22.) Lecture, four hours. History of blues, both as specific genre and as range of techniques and approaches that have been at center of American music and culture, from 19th-century roots to present. Exploration of commonly accepted blues mainstream exemplified by figures like Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, and B.B. King, but also central role blues has played in jazz, folk, country, gospel, rock, soul, and rap. While following evolution of music through 20th century, examination of how blues has served as metaphor for African American culture as it permeates American traditions. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of idea of medievalism in music and culture from Wagner to video games. Music covered includes film scores, opera, Gregorian chant, early music revival, folk songs, progressive rock, and Goth. Letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 4.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of life and music of the Beatles within social and historical context of 1960s. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Designed for undergraduate students. Life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. P/NP or letter grading.
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