The theory and analysis of musical style, including psychological, sociological, and analytic perspectives.
This course will explore the phenomenon of style, focusing on the psychology of categories, stylistic features, the dynamics of stylistic change, cross-over, fashion, fads, and social identity.
Music 839C is offered as 3 credit-hour course. If you wish to take this course for 5 credit hours, please enroll in Music 679 (Senior Project [call number 13954-5]) or 693 (Individualized Studies [call number 13984-7]) An additional course assignment will be required for those students wishing to take the course for 5 credit hours.
The course has no formal pre-requisites. Graduate standing is required.
For the Winter 2005 quarter, class times are held at 4:00-5:30 PM on Tuesdays and 4:30-6:00 PM on Thursdays. Classes are held on the Ohio State University Campus in the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory (Room 503, Mershon Auditorium).
The registration call number for the Winter 2005 offering of this course is 14149-2.
The primary objective of Music 839C is to introduce students to a variety of theories, perspectives and analytic tools pertaining to style.
The course objectives are pursued through classroom lectures, readings, student presentations, analytic projects and class discussions.
There is no text for this course. A set of readings will be made available through Ohio State University library reserve system.
Resources for this course can be found on the world-wide web at: http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music839C/
Web-based resources include a course bibliography.
The workload for Music 839C entails three hours of classroom activities each week, plus approximately four hours of additional reading (roughly 50 pages) per week.
The final course grade will be based on the following. A supplementary assignment will be given to students pursuing 5 credit-hours. The grading scheme for 5 credit-hour students is marked by asterisks (*).
Assignment due Jan. 13, 2005 20% (*10%*) Supplementary Assignment due March 15, 2005 (*25%*) Analysis Project due Feb. 24, 2005 30% (*25%*) Class Presentation 25% (*15%*) Class Participation 25% (*25%*)
Dr. David Huron
Mershon Auditorium, Room 502
Telephone: 688-4753 (Wk.) 268-8992 (Hm.)
E-mail: huron.1@osü.edü [Ignore the umlauts; they are present to foil web crawlers.]
Students are encouraged to arrange to discuss any aspect of their course work. No appointments are necessary, however meeting times can be assured by telephoning Prof. Huron to make an appointment. If you are unable to reach the instructor on the telephone, remember to leave a message giving your name and telephone number.