Consideration of interdisciplinary issues, performance problems in various eras, ethnic music, theoretical investigations, and other topics. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Selected topics from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Genre studies, broad topics in history, specific literature of single or groups of composers. May be repeated with change in topic.
Contents change with each offering.
Aspects of traditional historical, comparative, and systematic musicology and recent developments in the field, including interdisciplinary topics and an introduction to semiotics. Includes bibliographic procedures and research methods. An examination of contemporary analytic theory as presented in the writings of prominent 20th-century theorists and as applied to literature of various styles from all historical eras. Survey of existing research in music education. Research methodology and introduction to statistical techniques.