MUSC 233 - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

2022-2023 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An overview of the study of world music. The course will study musical traditions in light of distinctive technical characteristics; social and political roles; and local, national and international transmission and identity, both historically and as they are practiced to the present. Course requirements will call on students to engage in individual fieldwork and notate musical transcriptions.

Prerequisite(s): MUSC 189.
Offered: Every Spring Semester