57-477 Music of the Spirit

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This guided listening course is a musical exploration of spirituality, a musicological and ethnomusicological survey organized around comparative religions. While the majority of repertoire will be from the Western Classical tradition, musics of a variety of cultures will be included. The music will be organized by particular religious traditions and by universal themes, such as community, deathafterlife, birthnew birth, martyrsheroes, transcendence immanence, meditationcontemplationtrance, etc. Most course materials, including streaming audio, are online, with one meeting per week in the classroom. Will include participatory introductions to numerous forms of chant. Requires oral and written reports.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027

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