MUSC 1090 - The Musician in Society

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Course Description: This course examines the diverse roles that musicians and their collaborators play in various social, historical, and cultural contexts. The course surveys a wide array of music occupations and relationships, analyzing their interactions and the music that results from them. Students will evaluate the roles they themselves play, and the creative opportunities they can explore, in engaging with music as a social and human activity.
MnTC Goals
MnTC Goal 6

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Analysis of the roles of musicians and collaborators in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, including:
   1. Listeners
   2. Instrument Makers
   3. Teachers
   4. Composer
   5. Adapters
   6. Performers
   7. Patrons
   8. Facilitators
   9. Influencers
   10. Conservators
   11. Disseminators
2. Analysis of music produced by these collaborations

1. describe the roles that musicians occupy in society, in a variety of cultural and historical contexts.

2. analyze the relationships that foster the creation, performance, and reception of music.

3. analyze musical works as products of social and creative collaborations.

4. evaluate their own roles in engaging with music as a social and human activity.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies MnTC Goal 6
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.

06. 02 Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
none

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