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Honors Institute

Music
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MUS 2BH :: HONORS GREAT COMPOSERS & MUSIC MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION						5 Units
Introduction to the great composers and music masterpieces of Western culture. Includes composer biographies with emphasis on how composers synthesize or transform the aesthetic ideals of their time. Examines how composers' music reflects their own lives as well as mirrors contemporary social, political, and religious events. Historical periods include the Classical period up through early Romanticism. Composers include Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Weber. The honors section offers deeper theoretical content, assignments that require more sophisticated cognition/critical thinking, more rigorous assessment, and additional creative and summative projects.
Advisory: Not open to students with credit in MUS 2B.
Repeatability: Not Repeatable.
4 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. (84 hours total per quarter.)
17�Թ� GE Area: Humanities
Transferability: CSU and UC
Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at: foothill.edu/transfer/forms/current_transfer_ge_guide.pdf
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