Music composition class

It has kind of becoming a introduction class about all kinds of music.

There is one weekend where we have to listen to European music selection from different parts of the history: from Josquin des Prez to Johann Sebastian Bach to Mozart to ...., etc. Then we had a guest lecture on European medieval music, mostly the chants in churches. Last weekend we had to attend some avant-garde music concert in which instruments from Japan, China and Korea are brought together in the same music pieces. Just now we had another guest lecture, and we're talking about Indian music.

I certainly wasn't expecting all these when I first signed up or when I found out that I had to stand in an elevator for half an hour doing nothing. It's been giving me surprises. And I also remember the professor saying something about pop music comparison. Well, we'll see how it goes.

(There is also a large portion of avant-garde music. The professor even performed John Cage's 4'33'' in the first class. Then we had lots of non-traditional music. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8C4HL2LyWU)