Honors 308: Aesthetics of Music  
                       Theodore Gracyk 
     

Syllabus 2004 

Reading Assignments 2004 

My Expectations
of students
 

Homework Assignments 2004  

Final Exam 2004 

2002 Final Exam Questions
 

Due to changes in the MSUM general education curriculum, 
I no longer teach this course.


           
           
Related links about music and this course 

OVERVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC 
(Andrew Kania's essay online)

OVERVIEW OF THE AESTHETICS OF POPULAR MUSIC 

OUTLINE of DeBellis on the  topic of philosophy of music 

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
(Indiana University School of Music)

            An introduction to jazz    More on jazz  

Outline of Ted Gioia's The Imperfect Art 

Modernism Handout to go with Gioia's book 

Finding the right sound in the recording studio (NY TIMES article)


 Hanslick's book    Outline of his argument 

 Another essay on Hanslick 

Outline of Attali's agrument 

       Text only version of outline     Korean version! 

Led Zeppelin Talk

 

An analysis of Attali's Noise    and another 

"Homemade" music videos on the web
(Evidence that Attali looked in the wrong place for "composing")
 

Adorno applied to Japanese noise 

What's up with popular music studies? 

 

Click the IASPM logo to visit 
their website (International 
Association for the Study 
of Popular Music)
Outline of a talk I've given on authenticity in music

An introduction to electronic music

Islam and music

Who Killed Classical Music?  

"And now, God help us all, 
Rachmaninoff's Concerto 
in C Minor."
link

  

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