First-Year Seminar: You Never Heard Such Sounds in Your Life: American Avant-Garde Music

This first-year seminar introduces students to the fascinating history of avant-garde music making in the United States. A series of case studies will address a number of important avant-garde musicians and schools of thought spanning the early twentieth century to the present. In exploring avant-garde music, students will encounter new ways of thinking about art's place in the world and broaden their notions of music itself. No previous training in music is required. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Course Attributes: EN H; FYS; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM

First-Year Seminar: You Never Heard Such Sounds in Your Life: American Avant-Garde Music

MUSIC 1026

Section 01