SoundTracks: Studies in Audio-Vision (FMS-0187)

Fall 2025 · FMS 0187 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

The soundtrack as a variable aural complex (of music, sound, and voice) crucial to the audio-visual experience. The study of audio-visual artifacts -- from silent to digital film, from melodrama to animation and music video, from blockbusters to installations -- and of current critical literature in musicology, film studies, and media studies. Sustained inquiry into historical and ideological modes of image-sound synchronization. Entanglements of the visual and the aural, as well as their aesthetic aspiration to constitute an immersive sensorium. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing or graduate standing or permission of instructor.

Course codes: FMS-0187, FMS 0187, FMS0187, FMS-187, FMS 187, FMS187, MUS-0193, MUS 0193, MUS0193, MUS-193, MUS 193, MUS193

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