2025-2026 Catalog

MUS 202 Music History and Literature: 1915 to Present

This course examines music since 1915 through extensive listening. Course content includes a survey of Western art music as well as examples of blues, jazz, musical theater, rock, and non-Western music. The repertoire is presented through a study of readings, sound recordings, films, and lectures. Students encounter the communities, histories, traditions, and newer forms of expression of music since the early decades of the 20th century.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

MUS 121 or permission of the instructor

Instructor

Torres, Cummings