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Fall 2020 | DNCE 1626 Section 001: Music for Dance (15471)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed,
Fri 10:10AM - 11:40AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cultural gravity of the Western perspective. Ways global regions express natural laws of acoustics through music while considering historical, political, and ethical issues around the relationship between music and dance. Workshops, practice, and exercises. prereq: dept consent
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- In order to understand the global universality of the natural phenomenon of music, this course begins by introducing the physical laws and behavior of sound waves. With the goal of highlighting the depth and complexity of non-western music systems, this course will compare basic western music theory with select global music systems. With an eye on how the world's musical styles and genres, its use and function in society, evolve over time; frequent class discussion focuses on the intersection of music and dance with historic and current states of social/political human dynamics that impact culture, such as diaspora, colonization, xenophobia, and ethnocentrism. Students also examine their own cultural `location', or `cultural gravity' against these backdrops. Practical class work features the study of various methods and styles of collaboration between several composer/choreographer relationships, as well as listening to recordings and watching films of select global genres and forms of music for dance. To encourage personal kinesthetic musical sophistication and further `open the ears' of students, hands-on experiences include honing rhythmic skills through percussion playing and rhythmic exercises, and participating in a variety of experiential workshops by guest artists representing non-western musical systems.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15471/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 August 2013
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