Writing About Music

This course focuses on ways to think and write about music. The course is generally divided into reading and listening assignments in preparation for writing assignments. Assignments will include descriptive and narrative writing, and expository and analytical assignements about music and its relationship to culture. In addition, students will explore various themes and topics, such as the connection between music, narrative, and cultural memory, and music as an expression of romantic and national feeling. Students will develop the ability to think and write about the means and goals of musical expression as well as the components of musical forms in their most inclusive sense. Additionally, the course will develop the students' writing throug musical perceptivity and sharpen the students' awareness of the relation between writing and musical thought, expression and performance.

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