Modern Music: 1900-1960
21M.262 · Music and Theater Arts · Undergraduate · Fall 2006
Prof. Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
This subject covers a specific branch of music history: Western concert music of first sixty years of the twentieth century. Although we will be listening to and studying many pieces (most of the highest caliber) the goal of the course is not solely to build up a repertory of works in our memory (though that is indeed a goal). We will be most concerned with larger questions of continuity and change in music. We will also consider questions of reception, or historiography - that is, the creation…
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