Music
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, John
Shepherd
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.
Graduate Courses
Not all of the following courses are
offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course
offerings for 1998-99, 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
This course provides a critical survey
of major theories on the relationship between music and culture.
Particular attention is paid to the way in which work in
musicology, ethnomusicology, culture theory, feminism, semiotics,
structuralism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic theory has
been applied to the problem of understanding 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
This course applies the insights and
analyses of feminist cultural critiques to the theory and
practice of music and musicology. Taking specific discursive and
musical examples as its focus, the course draws upon recent
developments in psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and
post-colonial critique 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
Nations.
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. Topics covered include folk music of the
seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, salon music,
political song, and the growth of mass disseminated popular
music. Special attention is paid to the social and political
contexts of music making, in particular the identity of popular
music with aspirations of nationalism in the Province of Québec
during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Prerequisites: Permission of the School for Studies in Art and
Culture (Music). A good reading ability in French is essential.
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