Courses

From the links below, you can download and print out course outlines for the courses I am offering in 2004-2005.

MUHL 220: Women in Music

An introduction to the roles, musical experiences, and artistic achievements of women in a variety of musical traditions and cultures. A case study format will be adopted to permit in-depth analysis of specific musical achievements and exploration of the various social, political, and cultural forces that have shaped women’s musical activity. While emphasis will be placed on contemporary European, American, and Canadian musicians, exploration will adopt a cross-cultural perspective that approaches music, not in the traditional sense as “work,” but as a way of “writing and re-writing” (shaping and discovering) our own identities. Re-current themes will question traditional conceptions of music history as a mode of knowing, as well as concepts such as power, authorship, genius, voice, body, and gender.


Graduate Seminar

This course explores contemporary Operas written by a Canadian composer and/or with the involvement of a Canadian librettist, including (but not limited to) works by Louis Applebaum, Istvan Anhalt, Rodney Sharman and Atom Eyoyan, Ka Nin Chan, Bruce Mather, Harry Somers, Alexina Louie, Randolph Peters, D. D. Jackson, Murray Schafer, and Margaret Atwood. Exploration will follow four thematic strands: (a) identity as Opera; (b) composer/librettist as a reader of Canadian culture; (c) opera as constitutive of Canadian culture; and (d) challenges of interpretation and realization.