Syllabus FALL 2007
MUSC 2100
 Department of Performing Arts
Millsaps College | Jackson, MS

The Evolution of Style in Western Music

WRITING PROJECTS

The required term paper is an 8- to 10-page document examining the music of a particular composer or school of composers. Your paper should demonstrate how the intelligent use of LaRue's style analysis techniques can illuminate the study of a well-defined area of the music literature. The best papers will arrive at interesting conclusions about the music, unforeseen when the writer began the study.

If you major is not music, you may write a paper from a wider context, relating it to you area of interest. See me for advice.

REGARDING PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is intellectual theft and will not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty is a violation of the college Honor Code. Clear evidence of such will result in procedures that bring the student to the attention of the Honor Council. [In some cases, the Honor Council has levied the penalty of failure of an entire course for proven plagiarism.]

You are responsible for knowing what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.