Music & Meditation

Course Description

Music and Meditation explores the contemplative nature of sonic experience from humanistic, artistic and scientific perspectives.

By drawing from various traditions across both time and space, and by engaging with a variety of disciplinary methodologies from Contemplative Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Religious Studies, Cognitive Science and Performance Studies, we will seek to better understand how diverse communities have used music as a meditative tool, a mystical philosophy, a communal exercise, a ritual performance, and more.