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MUSC144
Time and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective
MUSC144 SP
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 0 0 0
Next Offered in 9899 SP
How do people perceive and perform time in music? How does
music help to structure ritual time and alter perception of
time? How do we remember time through music? This course
will attempt to grapple with the many ways in which humans
order time and with the relationship between time and
musical structure and feeling. The class flows from two
basic premises: 1) All music unfolds in time and in doing so
helps to structure time for its listeners, and 2) time
perception is culturally and historically constituted, and
thus philosophies and perceptions of musical time will vary
from culture to culture.
MAJOR READINGS
A. Borst, THE ORDERING OF TIME: FROM THE
ANCIENT COMPUTUS TO THE MODERN COMPUTER
Ed. T. Hall, THE DANCE OF LIFE: THE OTHER DIMENSION OF TIME
J.T. Fraser, TIME, THE FAMILIAR STRANGER
A. Gabrielsson (ed.), ACTION AND PERCEPTION IN RHYTHM AND
MUSIC
J. Kramer (ed.), TIME AND RHYTHM IN MUSIC, MUSIC THEORY
SPECTRUM 7
H. Pantaleoni, "The Nature of Rhythm"
S. Langer, (ed.), REFLECTIONS ON ART
A. Lightman, EINSTEIN'S DREAMS
J.T., Fraser et al (eds.), THE STUDY OF TIME
J.E. McGrath and J.R. Kelly, TIME AND SOCIAL INTERACTION:
TOWARD A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Readings and class discussions
will range from the physics, psychology, philosophy, and
phenomenology of music to ethnographic treatments of rhythm
and temporal reckoning in selected cultures. Assignments
include short weekly "reaction" papers and a semester
research project.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Students should
have some personal experience with musical performance and
at least a passing acquaintance with Western musical (staff)
notation.
Unless preregistered students attend the first
class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor
prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the
class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA MUSC
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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