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2024-2025 Catalog

MUS 202 Music History and Literature: 1915 to Present

This course examines music since 1915 through extensive listening. Course content includes a survey of Western art music as well as examples of blues, jazz, musical theater, rock, and non-Western music. The repertoire is presented through a study of readings, sound recordings, films, and lectures. Students encounter the communities, histories, traditions, and newer forms of expression of music since the early decades of the 20th century.

Prerequisite

MUS 121 or permission of the instructor

Instructor

Torres, Cummings