2024-2025 Catalog

 

MUS-506 Survey of Non-Western Music

This course will present a survey of non-Euro-American musical genres, including the aspects of music that are unique to these genres and that differ from Euro-American music in general. The course will cover music from west, north, and east Africa, the Middle East, India, China, Japan, and the Andes. The course will provide students an understanding of music outside the Euro-American sphere, as well as the analytic skill to recognize the use of musical elements in music throughout the world, and a realization in depth of the various philosophical and social influences affecting the music of the world.

Credits

3

Notes

3
Indiana Weselayan