Musicology

S.E. Plank, Professor of Musicology, Director
Jennifer Fraser, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Austin Glatthorn, Assistant Professor of Musicology
Fredara Hadley, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Kathryn Metz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Charles McGuire, Professor of Musicology
James O’Leary, Frederick R. Selch Associate Professor of Musicology

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Programs

• Bachelor of Music: Musicology

• Minor in Ethnomusicology
• Minor in Music History

Courses

• ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World
• ETHN 106 - The History of Rock
• ETHN 190 - Black Music in the Hour of Chaos
• ETHN 200 - Music of Latin America
• ETHN 201 - Doing Musical Ethnography
• ETHN 202 - Epics, Puppets, and Music: From India to Indonesia
• ETHN 204 - Music and Gender
• ETHN 212 - Music and Ecology
• ETHN 213 - The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship
• ETHN 214 - Popular Music and US Urban Identities
• ETHN 215 - Pop Music and Media
• ETHN 216 - The Public Intellectual & Arti
• ETHN 222 - Building Community Through Music
• ETHN 302 - Musical Thought: Analysis of World Music
• ETHN 303 - Ethnomusicology as Activism
• ETHN 304 - Engaging the “Other”: From Colonial Echoes to Decolonizing Strategies
• ETHN 305 - Interpreting Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and The Negro
• ETHN 995F - Private Reading - Full
• ETHN 995H - Private Reading - Half

• MHST 071 - Music of the 1970s
• MHST 101 - Introduction to the History and Literature of Music
• MHST 221 - American Music
• MHST 226 - Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• MHST 235 - Music in the Baroque Era
• MHST 238 - Musical Theater and Opera
• MHST 245 - Music in the Classic Era
• MHST 255 - Music of the Romantic Era
• MHST 255B - Music in the Late Romantic Era
• MHST 260 - Desire and the Diva
• MHST 275 - Music Since 1914
• MHST 290 - Introduction to African American Music
• MHST 291 - Introduction to African American Music
• MHST 301 - Introduction to Music Research and Writing
• MHST 302 - Introduction to Historical Performance
• MHST 303 - Music of Tudors
• MHST 316 - Studies in Opera: Verdi
• MHST 319 - Studies in Genre: The Symphonic Poem
• MHST 323 - Music Minus 10
• MHST 331 - Johann Sebastian Bach
• MHST 332 - History of Film Music
• MHST 336 - Philosophy of Music
• MHST 337 - Introduction to Organology
• MHST 342 - Fin-de-Siécle Music in Germany and France
• MHST 344 - Making American Music-Selch
• MHST 347 - What’s That Sound? The History and Development of Instruments (Frederick R. Selch Collection)
• MHST 351 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• MHST 353 - Opera in US since 1950
• MHST 357 - Charles Ives’s Musical Universe
• MHST 361 - Robert Schumann
• MHST 362 - Music, Politics, and the Western Canon, c.1800
• MHST 400 - Senior Honors
• MHST 401 - Senior Honors
• MHST 420 - Stephen Sondheim
• MHST 503 - Music of Tudors
• MHST 995F - Private Reading - Full
• MHST 995H - Private Reading - Half