Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Time
21M.542 · Music and Theater Arts · Undergraduate · January IAP 2010
Dr. Martin Marks, Prof. Marcus A Thompson, Prof. Charles Shadle
<p>This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of three broad topics concerning music in relation to time.</p> <ol> <li>Music as Architecture: the creation of musical shapes in time;</li> <li>Music as Memory: how musical understanding depends upon memory and reminiscence, with attention to analysis of musical structures; and</li> <li>Time as the Substance of Music: how different disciplines such as philosophy and neuroscience view the temporal dimension of musical processes and/or performan…
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