EDP, H- This course is for students with no prior music training. Students explore music and human behavior related to music across time and in cultures across the world, including the physics of musical instruments and their design and construction, the creation and maintenance of group identity through sound-making and related physical movement, and the diffusion of music culture via demographic change resulting from war, colonialism, slavery, technological innovations, or political or religious movements. Students gain a practical foundation for understanding the ideas and behaviors related to musical traditions and the basic elements of music.
Prerequisites
Placement into ENGL 95 or above.