Looking to knock off some core requirements? Interested in taking a class in the music department? Do you like food? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Advanced Topics in the Critical Study of Music: Music and Food is the class for you!
Here's a quick blurb from Professor Kasunic himself:
Dear Students:
We have removed the music prerequisite for the following seminar, which only
We have removed the music prerequisite for the following seminar, which only
had the prerequisite because it is a 300-level course. The course does not
require students who are able to read music, only students who are
intellectually curious and engaged readers. It fulfills both the FA and EU
CORE requirements.
If this course is up your alley (cup of tea, I should say), please do
consider taking it. My hope is that we'll chart new territory.
David Kasunic
*Music 395, Advanced Topics in the Critical Study of Music: Music and Food*
This interdisciplinary course will examine the relationship between music and food, and thus hearing and taste, in Europe and the United States, beginning with the 16th-century category of musical composition called “table music” and culminating in the present-day gastropub. Along the way we will explore topics such as the 18th-century emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy, the rise of the restaurant and gastronomy, Dandyism and Decadent literature, and “fine dining” in the United States. We will read scholarly literature from the fields of philosophy, history, cognitive science, sociology, literature, and music, and classes will include visits from scholars in these fields. This will be a discussion-based research seminar, peppered with a few short writing assignments and class reports. Students will carve out an area of research early on and develop it over the course of the semester, culminating in a research presentation and final argument-driven research paper. The course will conclude with the fastidious recreation of an historical banquet. This courses fulfills both FA and EU
require students who are able to read music, only students who are
intellectually curious and engaged readers. It fulfills both the FA and EU
CORE requirements.
If this course is up your alley (cup of tea, I should say), please do
consider taking it. My hope is that we'll chart new territory.
David Kasunic
*Music 395, Advanced Topics in the Critical Study of Music: Music and Food*
This interdisciplinary course will examine the relationship between music and food, and thus hearing and taste, in Europe and the United States, beginning with the 16th-century category of musical composition called “table music” and culminating in the present-day gastropub. Along the way we will explore topics such as the 18th-century emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy, the rise of the restaurant and gastronomy, Dandyism and Decadent literature, and “fine dining” in the United States. We will read scholarly literature from the fields of philosophy, history, cognitive science, sociology, literature, and music, and classes will include visits from scholars in these fields. This will be a discussion-based research seminar, peppered with a few short writing assignments and class reports. Students will carve out an area of research early on and develop it over the course of the semester, culminating in a research presentation and final argument-driven research paper. The course will conclude with the fastidious recreation of an historical banquet. This courses fulfills both FA and EU
CORE requirements.
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