Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MH 3710 - History of Electronic Music


Credits: 3

In this junior-level music history course, students survey the development, experimental practices, and eventual proliferation of electronic music across the 20th and beginning of the 21st Century. The course will discuss both academic and popular electronic music trends, often addressing how the same technologies are used in significantly different ways. By outlining the historical context and global modes of influence between various works and composers involved in electronic music, students achieve a comprehensive understanding of the fruitful, ongoing discourse surrounding what, how, and why different technologies, ideas, and cultural practices shape electronic music today. Such a discourse provides a foundation for students to posit future artistic ramifications of the interaction between music and technology.

Prerequisites: HU 1110 - Humanities I: World Thought I  

Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply critical listening skills to diverse electronic music styles in consideration of technological, aesthetic, and cultural significance.
  • Identify and explain the importance of key recordings and composers in electronic music history.
  • Develop and defend arguments about the use of technology in making electronic music based on historical evidence and the contextual significance of specific works or artists.




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