Steven E. Plank, Director Jennifer Anne Fraser Roderic Knight Claudia MacDonald Charles McGuire     -Oberlin Music Scholar Wins Prestigious Competition -Collegium Musicum Performs in Pittsburgh and Oberlin		Emeritus Professor Sylvan Suskin lectures during an Introduction to Music History course CURRICULA Oberlin's musicology division offers a major and a minor in music history and a minor in ethnomusicology. Music history is frequently chosen as half of a double major. For those students planning careers as scholars or teachers it is excellent preparation for graduate school. Courses in both areas consider music within its present-day and past cultural contexts. Students begin with a one-semester survey that introduces them to major developments in the history of Western music and acquaints them with historical method. Five intermediate courses center on individual historical periods, encouraging discussions about social, historical, and aesthetic contexts related to the production and interpretation of music. Advanced courses provide more in-depth coverage of special topics, such as the music of Mozart, the oratorio genre, or the role of women in music. Ethnomusicology encompasses the study of music traditions from throughout the world, including Western folk traditions not covered in the music history courses. Ethnomusicology courses include: a one-semester introduction to musics of the world five area courses covering Africa, India, Indonesia, East Asia, and the Americas. ensembles devoted to some of these traditions, such as the Javanese Gamelan, the West African Mandinka Ensemble, and a North Indian vocal ensemble. GUEST LECTURERS The musicology division sponsors the Richard Murphy Colloquia, a series of lectures by visiting scholars and resident faculty. Recent guests have included Susan Youens, Robert Winter, James Hepokoski, and Scott Burnham. The ethnomusicology program also is supplemented by guest recitalists and lecturers. Recent visiting performers have included Chan-Eung Park (Korean p'ansori), Michael Gould and Chieko Iwasaki (Japanese shakuhachi and koto), and T. Viswanathan and Ramnad Raghavan (South Indian flute and mridangam).