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Music
Loeb Building A911
Telephone: 520-5770
Fax: 520-3905
The School
St. Patrick's Building 423
Director, Bryan Gillingham
Assistant Director (Music), Jennifer Giles
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 a 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.
Graduate Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, 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.
- Music 30.501W1
- Theories of Music as Culture
- 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.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
- Music 30.505F1
- Feminism and Musicology
- 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.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
- Music 30.510T2
- History of Canadian Music I
- 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.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
- Music 30.511F1
- History of Canadian Music II
- Anglo- and Franco-folk music traditions in Canada, past and present.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
- Music 30.512W1
- History of Canadian Music III
- The music of various ethnic minorities in Canada with special emphasis on the traditions of the First Peoples.
Prerequisite: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music).
- Music 30.515F1
- History of Canadian Music IV
- 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.
Prerequisites: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and Culture (Music). A good reading ability in French is essential.
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