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School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music
Loeb Building A911
Telephone: 520-5770
Fax: 520-3905
The School
St. Patrick's Building 423
Director, Bryan Gillingham
Assistant Director (Music), Bryan Gillingham
Music offers courses at the graduate level in musicology and ethnomusicology.
These include courses offered in cooperation with the School of Canadian
Studies. Full use is made of the resources of the National Library, the
Public Archives, and the National Museum of Civilization.
Dr. Elaine Keillor is lecturer in Canadian music with Dr. Helmut Kallmann
(former Chief Music Librarian, National Library) as Adjunct Professor.
Courses in the sociology and aesthetics of music are offered by Dr. John
Shepherd and Dr. Geraldine Finn.
NOTE: See Cultural Mediations for our new doctoral program.
Graduate Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an
up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2000-2001, please consult
the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published
in the summer.
F,W,S indicates term of offering. Courses offered in the fall and winter
are followed by T. The number following the letter indicates the credit
weight of the course: 1 denotes 0.5 credit, 2 denotes 1.0 credit, etc.
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Music 30.501W1
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Theories of Music as Culture
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A survey of major theories in musicology, ethnomusicology, feminism, semiotics,
structuralism, poststructuralism, cultural studies and psychoanlysis as
they have been applied to the understanding of the culture-specific character
of sound in music.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
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Music 30.505F1
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Feminism and Musicology
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Applying specific feminist approaches, this course focuses upon recent
developments in psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction and post-colonial
criticism to examine the structures and significances of music in contemporary
culture and its relationship to politics, ideology, and power.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
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Music 30.510T2
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History of Canadian Music I
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Selected aspects of notated Canadian music from 1600 to the present; liturgical
music; social and economic conditions of Canadian musical life; regional
studies; individual composers and performers.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
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Music 30.511F1
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History of Canadian Music II
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Anglo- and Franco-folk music traditions in Canada, past and present.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
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Music 30.512W1
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History of Canadian Music III
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The music of various ethnic minorities in Canada with special emphasis
on the traditions of the First Peoples.
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Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
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Music 30.515F1
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History of Canadian Music IV
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A survey of the history of French-Canadian popular music from the beginnings
of Nouvelle France to the present. Special attention is paid to the social
and political contexts of music making in Québec.
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Prerequisites: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture
(Music). A good reading ability in French is essential.
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