Musicology 2 (MUSC 2405)

• Sacred and secular music in Western Europe
• The strengths and weaknesses of creating historical-era genres
• The misappropriation of the ideas of teleology, development and evolution into the historical description of art, music and all cultural production
• The important features of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-century European music and how they relate to the individuals and cultural contexts by whom they are produced
• The weakening of the political, economic and artistic hegemony of Western Europe and the effect on music and art.
• Research methods and data bases

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.