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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

MS 3430 - Music in America

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The history of American music from the colonial era to the present. The major stylistic developments as seen in the works of Stephen Foster, John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin and others are contrasted and compared with the oral traditions of folk, jazz and popular music.