Music History
Courses
MUHI 310: Music Cultures of the World I, II
Credits 3Musical comprehension, instruments and role of music in society. MUHI 310 – cultures of Europe, Africa and the Americas. MUHI 311 – cultures of the Pacific, Near East and Asia.
MUHI 311: Music Cultures of the World I, II
Credits 3Musical comprehension, instruments and role of music in society. MUHI 310 – cultures of Europe, Africa and the Americas. MUHI 311 – cultures of the Pacific, Near East and Asia.
MUHI 315: History of Jazz and American Popular Music
Credits 3Musical styles and structures of jazz and American popular music with emphasis on music since 1900.
MUHI 341: Introduction to Early Music Performance Practices
Credits 3Summary and perspective of the problems and issues associated with the field of early music performance practices.
MUHI 342: Seminar in Early Music Performance Practices
Credits 3Seminar in a specific instrumental and/or vocal area of performance practices, such as Baroque vocal, or instrumental, or keyboard practices.
MUHI 390: Undergraduate Research Seminar
Credits 3Special projects appropriate to individual interests and needs.
MUHI 431: Medieval Music: Early Christian to 1425
Credits 3The Mass, liturgical drama, early polyphony through Ars Nova. Secular movements in music.
MUHI 432: Music of the Renaissance, 1425-1600
Credits 3Vocal polyphonic music from the Burgundian School through Elizabethan madrigal.
MUHI 433: Music of the Baroque Period, 1600-1750
Credits 3Musical developments from Monteverdi to Bach and Handel.
MUHI 434: Viennese Classicism, 1750-1830
Credits 3Development of the symphony, concerto, chamber music and opera in the works of the Mannheim composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
MUHI 435: Nineteenth-Century Music, 1830-1900
Credits 3Romanticism and other 19th-Century trends in music up to Impressionism.
MUHI 436: Twentieth-Century Music
Credits 3Critical and analytical study of music since 1900. Examination and discussion of style characteristics and aesthetic aims of Contemporary composers.
MUHI 443: Medieval and Renaissance Notation
Credits 3Theory of chant, modal, mensural and tablature notations. Practice in making literal transcriptions, editing, and preparing scores for performance.
MUHI 590: Seminar in Music
Credits 3Problems in musical criticism, aesthetics and analysis, as well as historical style.
MUHI 610: Bibliography and Research Methods in Music
Credits 3Seminar in research methods and techniques stressing the analytic and functional approaches to bibliography.
MUHI 611: Doctor of Musical Arts Seminar
Credits 3MUHI 798: DMA Written History Comprehensive Examination
Credits 0The music history component is administered through CWRU.