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This course is a study of the major compositional trends of Western music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our study will include evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to music composition and aesthetics in works after 1914 with an emphasis on music from 1950 to the present. The process of discovery will include both historical and theoretical approaches, with an emphasis on developing styles and techniques of music composition and their historical and social contexts.