Music


Faculty List

Faculty: Music History & Culture

Professors
C. Clark, MA, PhD (T)
R. Elliott, MA, PhD (M)
J. Haines, MA, PhD (T)
E. Hisama, BA, BMus, PhD  

Associate Professors
F. Hemmasi, MA, PhD
S. Lee, MA, PhD
J. Packman, MA, PhD
J. Pilzer, MA, PhD

Assistant Professors
S. Gutsche-Miller, MA, PhD
E. Lockhart, PhD
 

Faculty: Music Theory

Professors
E. Hisama, BA, BMus, PhD
R. McClelland, PhD

Associate Professor
S. Vande Moortele, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor
D. Tan, PhD

Associate Professors, Teaching Stream
M. Sallmen, MA, PhD
A. Vishio, PhD

Lecturer
L. Kuzmenko, Mus Bac

Introduction

In the Faculty of Arts and Science, Music is approached as one of the liberal arts and taught as cultural history. This humanistic emphasis aims at a high degree of correlation with other disciplines such as Fine Art, Cultural Anthropology, Languages and Literatures, History, and Philosophy. Note that unlike students in the Mus.Bac. program at the Faculty of Music, students in the Specialist and Major programs are not given individual applied music instruction (e.g., piano or voice lessons). They are, however, offered a thorough grounding in musicology, and strong training in both ethnomusicology and music theory, with the option of increasing their exposure to the latter two disciplines via their upper-year option courses.

The courses with the prefix MUS are open to any student of the University. Even students with a strong music background should find them stimulating explorations of the world of music.

Students wishing to enter the Specialist or Major Program should examine the courses listed under HMU History of Music and TMU Theory of Music in the Faculty of Music Calendar. First-year specialist/major courses are available to a small number of students, who are admitted to them by audition and interview during Registration week. Those interested in ethnomusicology and the study of world music may audition on the basis of their comparable accomplishments in a non-Western instrumental or vocal performing tradition. All students are required to have completed Level 8 Theory and Level 9 Harmony from the Royal Conservatory of Music or equivalent as prerequisite, prior to the audition-interview. Knowledge of Western music history and theory ensures that students are not disadvantaged when facing the curricular requirements of the program. In this program the humanistic and historical approach is supported by courses in music theory which provide craft and analytical tools. The Specialist Program provides excellent preparation for a variety of professional activities including music criticism, library science, positions in the publishing, broadcasting, and recording industries, as well as for graduate studies in musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, leading to careers in university teaching. The program leads to the degree of Bachelor of Arts (honours). For programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music, the student should consult the Calendar of the Faculty of Music.

Students are encouraged to attend events sponsored by the Faculty of Music such as the Thursday Noon and Faculty Artists’ Series, opera productions and numerous concerts. For information refer to www.music.utoronto.ca or telephone 416-978-3740.
Faculty of Music Representative: Professor R. McClelland, Associate Dean, Edward Johnson Building, Room 256 (416-946-0802); email: ryan.mcclelland@utoronto.ca
Enquiries: Jennifer Panasiuk, Admissions Officer, Edward Johnson Building, Room 145 (416-978-3741); email: undergrad.music@utoronto.ca

 

Regarding Music Programs

Enrolment in HMU and TMU courses, and, therefore, in the Specialist and Major programs, is limited to students who pass the audition-interview, held annually in September. Students are required to complete and submit the Student Profile available at www.music.utoronto.ca under "Music for Arts & Science Students", prior to mid-August each year. Detailed information is available on the Faculty of Music website. You will then be assigned an audition/interview time. Prospective candidates must perform at the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade Eight level, and demonstrate that they have RCM Level 8 Theory (formerly Advanced Rudiments) and RCM Level 9 Harmony (formerly Basic Harmony) or equivalents. Students interested in pursuing the Major or Specialist with the Ensemble option are required to pass an additional audition-interview for ensemble placement. Please refer to MUS120Y1. (Note: No audition is required for the Music Minor program, see below.)

Music Programs

Music Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE2276

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Special Requirement

  • Students must pass an audition-interview to enroll in the program. The audition is held annually in September. Students are required to complete and submit the Student Profile available on-line, normally prior to mid-August each year. Detailed information is available on the Faculty of Music website.
  • Prospective candidates must perform at the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade Eight level, and demonstrate that they have RCM Level 8 Theory (or equivalent) and RCM Level 9 Harmony (or equivalent). Students who do not meet the Level 9 Harmony requirement (or equivalent) will be required to attend an additional hour of tutorial during the fall term of TMU140Y1.
Completion Requirements:

(10 credits)

First Year:
HMU111H1, HMU126H1, TMU115H1, TMU140Y1 (2.5 credits)

Higher Years:
1. HMU225H1, HMU340H1 or HMU345H1, TMU240Y1 (2.0 credits)
2. 3.0 credits from: HMU425H1, HMU426H1, HMU430H1, HMU431H1, HMU432H1, HMU433H1, HMU435H1, HMU450H1 
3. 1.5 credits in music history (HMU) or music theory (TMU) with at least 1.0 credit at the 300-level
4. 1.0 credits at the 100-level or above in a language other than English

Music Specialist with Ensemble Option (Arts Program) - ASSPE2027

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Special Requirement

  • Students must pass an audition-interview to enroll in the program. The audition is held annually in September. Students are required to complete and submit the Student Profile available on-line, normally prior to mid-August each year. Detailed information is available on the Faculty of Music website.
  • Prospective candidates must perform at the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade Eight level, and demonstrate that they have RCM Level 8 Theory (or equivalent) and RCM Level 9 Harmony (or equivalent). Students who do not meet the Level 9 Harmony requirement (or equivalent) will be required to attend an additional hour of tutorial during the fall term of TMU140Y1.
  • Students interested in pursuing the Major or Specialist with the Ensemble option are required to pass an additional audition-interview for ensemble placement. Please refer to MUS120Y1. An information sheet is available at the Faculty of Music and online at http://www.music.utoronto.ca/ under "Music for Arts & Science Students"

Completion Requirements:

(11.5 full courses or equivalent)

First Year:
HMU111H1, HMU126H1, MUS120Y1, TMU115H1, TMU140Y1 (3.5 credits)

Higher Years:
1. HMU225H1, HMU340H1 or HMU345H1, TMU240Y1 (2.0 credits)
2. MUS220Y1 (1.0 credits)
3. 3.0 credits from: HMU425H1, HMU426H1, HMU430H1, HMU431H1, HMU432H1, HMU433H1, HMU435H1
4. 1.0 credit in music history (HMU) or music theory (TMU) at the 300+ level
5. 1.0 credit at the 100-level or above in a language other than English

Music Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ2276

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Special Requirement

  • Students must pass an audition-interview to enroll in the program. The audition is held annually in September. Students are required to complete and submit the Student Profile available on-line, normally prior to mid-August each year. Detailed information is available on the Faculty of Music website.
  • Prospective candidates must perform at the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade Eight level, and demonstrate that they have RCM Level 8 Theory (or equivalent) and RCM Level 9 Harmony (or equivalent). Students who do not meet the Level 9 Harmony requirement (or equivalent) will be required to attend an additional hour of tutorial during the fall term of TMU140Y1.
Completion Requirements:

(7 credits)

First Year:
HMU111H1, HMU126H1, TMU115H1, TMU140Y1 (2.5 credits)

Higher Years:
1. HMU225H1, TMU240Y1 (1.5 credits)
2. 2.0 credits in music history (HMU), including at least one half-course at the 300+ level and one half-course at the 400-level
3. 1.0 credit at the 300+ level in music history (HMU) or music theory (TMU)

Music Major with Ensemble Option (Arts Program) - ASMAJ2027

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Special Requirement

  • Students must pass an audition-interview to enroll in the program. The audition is held annually in September. Students are required to complete and submit the Student Profile available on-line, normally prior to mid-August each year. Detailed information is available on the Faculty of Music website.
  • Prospective candidates must perform at the Royal Conservatory of Music Grade Eight level, and demonstrate that they have RCM Level 8 Theory (or equivalent) and RCM Level 9 Harmony (or equivalent). Students who do not meet the Level 9 Harmony requirement (or equivalent) will be required to attend an additional hour of tutorial during the fall term of TMU140Y1.
  • Students interested in pursuing the Major or Specialist with the Ensemble option are required to pass an additional audition-interview for ensemble placement. Please refer to MUS120Y1. An information sheet is available at the Faculty of Music and online at http://www.music.utoronto.ca/ under "Music for Arts & Science Students"
Completion Requirements:

(8 credits)

First Year:
HMU111H1, HMU126H1, MUS120Y1, TMU115H1, TMU140Y1 (3.5 credits)

Higher Years:
1. HMU225H1, TMU240Y1 (1.5 credits)
2. MUS220Y1 (1.0 credit)
3. 1.0 credit in music history (HMU) at the 300+ level, including at least one half-course at the 400-level 
4. 1.0 credit at the 300+ level in music history (HMU) or music theory (TMU)

Music History & Culture Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN0695

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4 full courses or equivalent)

1. MUS110H1, MUS111H1
2. MUS200H1 or an alternative 200-level 0.5 credit in world music ( MUS209H1, MUS211H1, MUS212H1, or MUS215H1)
3. 2.5 credits in MUS courses from the list below, including one credit at the 300+ level. Either MUS120Y1 or MUS220Y1 can be counted towards the 2.5 credits in MUS courses


 

Regarding Music Courses

HMU and TMU Courses

HMU111H1, TMU115H1, and TMU140Y1 are Prerequisites for all other HMU/TMU courses which are offered annually. Full details on these, and other HMU/TMU courses may be found in the Calendar of the Faculty of Music.

HMU111H, TMU115H1, and TMU140Y1, for the purposes of an Arts & Science degree, are considered category 1 (Creative and Cultural Representations) for breadth requirements, and are considered as Humanities courses for distribution requirements.

Music Courses

MUS110H1 - Introduction to Music History and Culture

Hours: 24L

Introduction to form, style and the interrelationship of music and culture. A basic ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMA80H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS111H1 - Historical Survey of Western Music

Historical survey of Western art music from the Middle Ages to the present. A basic ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU111H1 - Introduction to Music and Society

An examination of musical thought and practice in non-Western and Western traditions.

Exclusion: Does not count as an HMU elective.

TMU115H1 - Musical Skills I & II

Reading and listening skills for diatonic and chromatic materials. Topics include sight singing, rhythm reading, keyboard harmony, and dictation.

Prerequisite: RCM Level 8 Theory, RCM Level 9 Harmony, RCM Grade 8 level performing audition, and permission of Department.
Corequisite: HMU111H1 and TMU140Y1.
Recommended Preparation: This course is offered simultaneously with TMU132H1 (F) and TMU133H1 (S) at the Faculty of Music.

MUS120Y1 - Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles I

Hours: 144P

Students rehearse and perform in concerts and reading sessions as assigned by the Faculty of Music. Provides experience in choral groups, orchestra, or in concert band and large wind groups of diverse instrumentation. Development of musicianship skills through performance of large ensemble works; emphasis on sight-reading, ear-training, and musical knowledge.

Attendance at all sessions is required. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.

Download the excerpt that is relevant to the instrument you would like to audition on; excerpts will be available at www.music.utoronto.ca beginning early July.

Exclusion: MUS291Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU126H1 - Historical Survey II

Western music from 1750 to the present.

Exclusion: HMU226H1. Does not count as an HMU elective.

TMU140Y1 - Music Theory I & II

Diatonic harmony, including principles of voice leading and harmonic progression. Chromatic harmony, including modulation, mixture, Neapolitan and augmented sixths. Course requirements include part-writing, analysis, and keyboard harmony/skills.

Prerequisite: RCM Level 8 Theory, RCM Level 9 Harmony, RCM Grade 8 level performing audition and permission of Department.

Corequisite: HMU111H1 and TMU115H1
Recommended Preparation: This course is offered simultaneously with TMU130H1 (F), TMU131H1 (S) and TMU105Y/107Y1 at the Faculty of Music.

MUS200H1 - Music of the World's Peoples

Hours: 24L

A survey of musical traditions from various regions of the world, with particular emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which those musics are created and appreciated. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMA99H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS202H1 - Beethoven

Hours: 24L

A study of Beethoven’s musical style in historical context, including a non-technical consideration of Beethoven’s innovations based on listening to music and reading history. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1, VPMC85H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS204H1 - The Age of Bach & Handel

Hours: 24L

A study of the representative major works in their social and cultural setting with emphasis on the high baroque style of Bach and Handel. No prior background in music or the ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS206H1 - The World of Opera

Hours: 24L

Examination of selected operas from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Musical and dramatic styles will be considered in their cultural context. The ability to read music is not required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS207H1 - Music for Orchestra

Hours: 24L

Study of selected orchestral works from 1700 to the present. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS209H1 - Performing Arts of South Asia

Hours: 24L

Survey of classical, devotional, folk and popular musics and dances from the Indian subcontinent and their toll in the sociocultural life of the region. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS210H1 - Music in Film

Hours: 24L

This course introduces students to the history and theory of music in film, beginning in the so-called silent era and ending in recent years. Students will become familiar with basic film music concepts and be able to identify the main ways in which music works in the movies.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS211H1 - The World of Popular Music

Hours: 24L

A survey of popular music traditions from various regions of the world with particular emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which those musics are created and appreciated. Explores the role of the recording industry, media, festivals, and local institutions in shaping these music cultures both at home and in the international arena. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS212H1 - Music, Sound & Power in the Middle East

Hours: 24L

An investigation of the social life of classical, devotional, folk and popular music and dance from across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS215H1 - Performing Arts of East Asia

Hours: 24L

An investigation of the social life of classical, devotional, theatrical, folk, and popular music and dance across East Asia.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS220Y1 - Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles II

Hours: 144P

Students rehearse and perform in concerts and reading sessions as assigned by the Faculty of Music. Provides experience in choral groups, orchestra, or in concert band and large wind groups of diverse instrumentation. Development of musicianship skills through performance of large ensemble works; emphasis on sight-reading, ear-training, and musical knowledge.

Attendance at all sessions is required. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.

Download the excerpt that is relevant to the instrument you would like to audition on; excerpts will be available at www.music.utoronto.ca beginning early July.

Prerequisite: MUS120Y1. Placement audition and permission of the Department required.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU225H1 - Historical Survey I

Western music up to 1750.

Prerequisite: In Year 2.
Exclusion: Does not count as an HMU elective.

MUS225H1 - Music: Islamic World

Hours: 24L

A survey of the musical systems of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia, with special focus on the broader cultural contexts in which they are created, used, and appreciated. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS230H1 - Music of the 1960s

Hours: 24L

Examination of musical and cultural aspects of the decade, with emphasis on North America. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS235H1 - Survivors' Music

Hours: 24L

Investigating music’s myriad roles in the lives of survivors of violence and traumatic experience, for example, in health and recovery, witnessing, and advocacy—and the hidden histories these musics reveal. We encounter survivors of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Japanese “comfort women” system, and quotidian domestic and sexual violence.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS240H1 - Heavy Music

An investigation of different world genres of “heavy music” as creations of sounding figures of social order, practices of destruction, practices of personal and collective power, social critique, parody, and so on. Includes obvious suspects—metal, punk, gangsta rap—but also opera, military musics, ritual musics, and others.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

TMU240Y1 - Music Theory and Skills III & IV

The first semester focuses on the study of forms and analysis of repertoire from c.1700-c.1900; forms to be studied include binary, ternary, sonata, rondo, variation, and fugue. The second semester focuses on post-tonal theory and analysis of music post-1900 along with reading and listening skills suitable for understanding post-tonal music.

Prerequisite: TMU115H1, TMU140Y1
Exclusion: TMU230H1, TMU231H1, TMU232H1

MUS300H1 - Music, Media and Technology

Hours: 24L

This course explores some of the ways in which music has been shaped through history, and particularly during the last 100 years, by technology and the media. Special attention will be paid to the record industry, broadcasting, and cinema. Examples from popular and art music traditions of the world will be used to illustrate the symbolic relationship between music and media. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS301H1 - African Popular Music

Hours: 24L

A survey of popular music in Sub-Saharan Africa from the 1920s to today. Students will listen to and think critically about a range of musical genres in their historical and social contexts. Case studies include Ghanaian highlife, Congolese rumba, Ethiopian jazz, South African kwaito, and Nigerian afrobeat(s). In our exploration of popular genres, we will engage topics of colonialism, nationalism, ethnicity, aesthetics, commodification, and appropriation, among others. No prior background in music is required.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS302H1 - Symphony

Hours: 24L

Masterpieces in the symphonic genre from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS303H1 - Music in the Contemporary World

Hours: 24L

The modern musical repertoire, including popular and traditional music from various parts of the world, will be studied from a variety of theoretical perspectives. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS305H1 - Latin American and Caribbean Music

Hours: 24L

A survey of popular, folk, and religious music from Latin America and the Caribbean.  Each practice will be considered in its socio-cultural context with attention to the histories and discourses of racial and cultural mixing that deeply inform everyday life in nation-states including Peru, Brazil, Haiti, and Jamaica among others. 

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS306H1 - Popular Music in North America

Hours: 24L

A selected survey of North American popular music from the 1930s through present. Students will develop a critical framework for listening to and analyzing popular music in historical and social context by focusing on aspects of performance, representation, composition, mass media, aesthetics, and commodification. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS308H1 - Handel

Hours: 24L

Handel’s life and music will be examined in its cultural contexts.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS315H1 - North American Vernacular Music

Hours: 24L

Explores vernacular music in North America, considering how musical performances and festivals of vernacular music map local, regional, and ethnic identities in North America. Specific case studies will include Scottish Highland, Tejano Conjunto, Métis Fiddling, Powwow, and Zydeco. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS321H1 - The Beatles

Hours: 24L

In The Ultimate Encyclopedia Of Rock, it was written of the The Beatles that “From three-minute pop classics to the psychedelic extravaganza of ‘Sgt. Pepper’, their songs soundtracked the Sixties. They were the greatest group in history. They probably always will be”. In addition to a survey of the group’s history, their recordings, and their films, this course aims to answer two basic questions: (1) what made the songs of The Beatles so successful? (2) in what ways did the band’s artistic output “soundtrack” the 1960s? No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS325H1 - The Age of Haydn & Mozart

Hours: 24L

Selected works from the second half of the eighteenth century by Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries will be examined in cultural and historical context. No prior background in music or ability to read music is required.

Exclusion: HMU111H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS330H1 - Music, Violence, and War

Hours: 24L

An inquiry into the social life of music in situations of violence, war, social domination, and traumatic experience. Case studies include music and African-American slavery, the First World War, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the Asia-Pacific War, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, the Iraq Wars and others.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

MUS335H1 - A Social History of the Piano

Hours: 24L

A survey of the changing roles and gendered associations of the piano c.1700 to the present day. Examples from the western art music tradition are compared to the acculturating force of the piano in other cultures, representations in the visual arts and film, and contemporary contexts of piano performance.

Exclusion: VPMB76
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU340H1 - Music in North America

Study of music in North American life. Topics may include folk and popular music, jazz and art music.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1, HMU225H1

MUS340H1 - 20th Century Music for Theatre

Hours: 24L

An examination of the role that music has played in modern Western theatre, with specific case studies drawn from one or more of the following genres: ballet, modern dance, musical theatre, opera, spoken theatre.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU345H1 - Global Popular Musics

Global Popular Musics is an introduction to popular music in its social and cultural context in a variety of international settings. Genres to be covered may include, but are not limited to, rock, hip-hop, country, and “world music”. The course will take an issues-based approach to the study of popular music, focusing on topics such as the interplay of tradition and modernity; media and technology; race, gender, sexuality, class, and other facets of identity; urbanization and migration; and the markets and legal structures surrounding music.

Prerequisite: HMU111H1, HMU126H1, HMU225H1
Exclusion: HMU245H1

MUS408H1 - Wagner

Hours: 24L

A study of the life and works of the composer Richard Wagner, and of his influence on European cultural life from his time to the present day.

Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HMU425H1 - Topics: Medieval Music

Plainchant and polyphony, including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.
Exclusion: HMU330H1

HMU426H1 - Topics: Renaissance Music

A comprehensive survey of sacred and secular polyphony (1400-1600), including topics or independent research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.
Exclusion: HMU331H1

HMU430H1 - Topics: Classical Music

Pre-classical composers, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1720-1830), including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU431H1 - Topics: Romantic Music

Instrumental and vocal genres, including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU432H1 - Topics: 20th Century Music

Developments and trends since 1910, including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU433H1 - Topics: Ethnomusicology

The history of the discipline from its roots in Comparative Musicology in the 1880s to the modern, holistic study of music and society. Other topics include transcription, transmission, and cultural appropriation. A variety of the world's traditions are illustrated with audio-visual materials, and students contribute personal surveys, analyses and debates.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU435H1 - Topics in Ethnomusicology: Current Issues

An undergraduate seminar devoted to exploring an emergent sub-field of ethnomusicology. The sub-field to be explored will rotate, but some examples are: the study of music and gender, race, or class; music and language; music and violence; sociomusicology; medical ethnomusicology; the ethnomusicology of popular music and technology; analytical approaches in ethnomusicology.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.

HMU450H1 - Topics: Baroque Music

Instrumental and vocal genres (1600-1750), including topics for individual research.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4-course History requirement and one additional HMU elective, or P.I.
Exclusion: HMU333H1

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