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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Music Introductory Courses
MUSIC 13Q. Classical Music and Politics: Western Music in Modern China
(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Social history, cultural studies, China studies, international relations, and music. From the Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci who presented a clavichord to the Chinese emperor to the emergence of a modern generation of Chinese musicians. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
3 units, Spr (Cai, J)
MUSIC 14N. Women Making Music
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Women's musical activities across times and cultures; how ideas about gender influence the creation, performance, and perception of music. GER:DB-Hum, EC-Gender
3 units, Aut (Hadlock, H)
MUSIC 16N. Music, Myth, and Modernity: Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
(F,Sem) (Same as GERLIT 16N.) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Roots of Wagner's operatic cycle and Tolkien's epic trilogy in a common core of Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon mythology. The role of musical motive and characterization in Wagner's music dramas and the film version of Tolkien's trilogy. Music as a key element in the psychological, political, and cultural revision of ancient myth in modern opera and film. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
3 units, Spr (Grey, T)
MUSIC 17N. The Operas of Mozart
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Four of Mozart's mature operas, the earliest works in the operatic repertoire never to go out of fashion. What accounts for this extraordinary staying power? Focus on the history of their composition, performance, and reception, and their changing significance from Mozart's time to the present. GER:DB-Hum
3 units, Win (Berger, K)
MUSIC 17Q. Perspectives in North American Taiko
(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Taiko, or Japanese drum, is a newcomer to the American music scene. Emergence of the first N. American taiko groups coincided with increased Japanese American activism, and to some it is symbolic of Japanese American identity. N. American taiko is associated with Japanese American Buddhism. Musical, cultural, historical, and political perspectives of taiko. Hands-on drumming. Japanese music and Japanese American history, and relations among performance, cultural expression, community, and identity. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul
4 units, Spr (Sano, S; Uyechi, L)
MUSIC 37N. Ki ho'alu: The New Renaissance of a Hawaiian Musical Tradition
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshman. Developed in the Hawaiian Islands during the 1830s, ki ho'alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar, is an art form experiencing newfound popularity coinciding with the growth of political activism in Hawaiian culture. The musical, cultural, historical, and political perspectives of Hawaiian music and ki ho'alu, through hands-on experience, readings, discussion, and workshops. Hawaiian music and history and relationships among performance, cultural expression, community, and identity. GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul
3 units, Aut (Sano, S)
MUSIC 38N. Singing Early Music
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. 15th- and 16th-century musical repertories and their contexts; performance practice. GER:DB-Hum
3 units, Spr (Rodin, J)
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