It’s a core course taught by a cohort of profs, grad students, and adjuncts in order to keep the classes small. It’s framed in a very conservative way as “masterpieces of western music” tho many instructors teach it with a critical approach to the canon.

Sounds like Music Appreciation by another name, but I guess I wouldn’t know since I never had to take either. I made the mistake of criticizing the canon exactly once in a music history class and my prof looked at me like I’d just suggested we all defrock and streak through the quad. Never again.