| Course ID: | MUSI 4240/6240. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Modern Music |
Course
Description: | Modern trends in music from Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Bartok to the present. |
| Oasis Title: | MODERN MUSIC |
| Prerequisite: | MUSI 3210 and MUSI 3220 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Upon completion the successful student should be able to associate aesthetic and analytical knowledge with the sound, style, genre, and performance idiom of individual works. |
| Topical Outline: | Major units of study will include: the styles of Late Romanticism; Debussy; the New Viennese School; Stravinsky; 1920s eclecticism; the return to large forms and national styles; varieties of serialism and indeterminacy; electronic resources; the new virtuosity; the broadening of the canon; late 20th-c American music. Students will learn of the historical, national, and aesthetic contexts for 20th-c art music. |