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School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music
Loeb Building A911
Telephone: 520-5770
Fax: 520-3905
Web site: www.carleton.ca/artandculture/music.html
The School
St. Patrick's Building 423
Director: 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 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 2004-2005 and to determine the
term of offering, consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule
booklet, published in the summer and also available online at
www.carleton.ca/cu/programs/sched_dates/
Course Designation System
Carleton's course designation system has been restructured. The first
entry of each course description below is the new alphanumeric Carleton
course code, followed by its credit value in brackets. The old Carleton
course number (in parentheses) is included for reference, where
applicable.
- MUSI 5001 [0.5 credit] (formerly 30.501)
- Theories of Music as Culture
- A survey of major theories in musicology, ethnomusicology,
feminism, semiotics, structuralism, poststructuralism, cultural studies
and psychoanalysis 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).
- MUSI 5005 [0.5 credit] (formerly 30.505)
- 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).
- MUSI 5100 [1.0 credit] (formerly 30.510)
- 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).
- MUSI 5101 [0.5 credit] (formerly 30.511)
- 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).
- MUSI 5102 [0.5 credit] (formerly 30.512)
- History of Canadian Music III
- The music of vario us 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).
- MUSI 5105 [0.5 credit] (formerly 30.515)
- 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 Quebec.
- Prerequisites: permission of the School for Studies in Art and
Culture (Music). A good reading ability in French is essential.
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