Music Program Classes

Preview of Fall 2002 Classes offered at the Graduate Center (Click here for registration schedule.)
Note: In addition to these courses, Graduate Center students can request permission to take courses at other CUNY campuses.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10am- 1pm	Music 71200 Research Techniques in Ethnomusicology Prof.  Blum 3 cr., rm. 3491 Music 82501 History of Music Theory Prof. Deford 3 cr., rm. 3389	Music 74500 Schenker I Prof.  Burstein 3 cr., rm. 3491	Music 83200 Cross-Cultural Studies of Composition Prof.  Blum 3 cr., rm. 3491	Music 81502 Baroque Perfomance Practice Prof.  Erickson 3 cr., rm. 3491
2pm- 5pm	Music 88400 Music of the Hispanic Caribbean Prof. Manuel 3 cr., rm. 3491	Music 70000 Bibliography Prof. Atlas 3 cr., rm. 3389 Music 86700 Beethoven Inside- Out Prof.  Kramer 3 cr., rm. 3491	Music 85700 Rhythm in Tonal Music Prof. Rothstein 3 cr., rm. 3491 Music 86100 American Orchestral Music Prof.  Graziano 3 cr., rm. 3389	Music 89100 Composers Seminar Prof. Saylor 3 cr., rm. 3491

70000 Bibliography and Research Techniques Tues 2-5 Prof. Allan Atlas 3 cr., rm  3389
An introduction to what "musicologists" (using that term in its broadest sense) do, this by doing some of the things that some of them do: editing, archival research, sketch studies, codicology, analysis-criticism, book reviewing, etc.  A survey of the chief musicological reference tools, journals, histories, etc.  Discussion of one or two of the "hotter" topics. A series of short papers and semester-long projects.

71200 Research Techniques in Ethnomusicology Mon 10-1 Prof. Stephen Blum 3 cr., rm  3491
The proseminar focuses on problems of coordinating several types of sources in ethnomusicological research. Assignments include a number of exercises and two major projects: a survey of the state of research in one area, and a detailed proposal for a monograph or dissertation. Required of students concentrating in ethnomusicology.

74500 Proseminar in Theory/Analysis: Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis  Tues 10-1 Prof. L. Poundie Burstein 3 cr., rm 3491
An introduction to the practice of Schenkerian analysis, including discussion of its notation, terminology, and techniques. Assignments will involve intensive analyses of works and excerpts of works from the Western tonal repertoire. Students entering the class should have a strong background in harmony and counterpoint.

81001 Studio Tutorial (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 3 cr.
81002 Studio Tutorial (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 3 cr.
81003 Studio Tutorial (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 3 cr.
81004 Studio Tutorial (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 3 cr.

81101 Ensemble (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1 cr.
81102 Ensemble (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1 cr.
81103 Ensemble (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1 cr.
81104 Ensemble (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1 cr.

81502 Performance Practice: Baroque Thurs 10-1 Prof. Raymond Erickson 3 cr., rm. 3491
This course, intended for performers, will approach various issues in Baroque performance practice primarily through the music of J.S.Bach. Issues to be dealt with include: Baroque instruments and vocal and instrumental technique, dances and dance music, national styles, ornamentation, and continuo playing.

8250 History of Music Theory I Mon 10-1 Prof. Ruth DeFord 3 cr., rm. 3389
This course focuses on three broad issues in music theory from ancient times to ca. 1600: (1) concepts of pitch, including interval measurement, tuning systems, musica ficta, and the chromatic and enharmonic genera; (2) theories of counterpoint; and (3) mode. It emphasizes conflicting opinions, both among early theorists and among their modern interpreters, with the objective of discovering the (often unstated) assumptions that underlie these conflicts. Relationships of theory to composition and performance practice are also considered.

83200 Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Cross-cultural Studies of Musical Composition Wed 10-1 Prof. Stephen Blum 3 cr., rm. 3491
This seminar examines attitudes toward composing and toward interpretation of existing compositions in societies of various types. Among the topics treated are (1) the structuring of rituals, (2) compound musical forms in Asia and Africa, (3) nationalist projects in Europe and the Americas.

85700 Seminar in Theory/Analysis: Rhythm in Tonal Music Wed 2-5 Prof. William Rothstein 3 cr., rm. 3491
This seminar will examine several theoretical traditions that seek to explain the nature of rhythmic and metric processes in tonal music. Following a brief survey of 18th- and 19th-century rhythmic theories, attention will focus on theorists writing after 1900.   Theoretical concepts will be applied to analysis.  Participants will determine what insights might be gained from each theoretical perspective, and why it remains difficult for theorists to arrive at a consensus regarding rhythmic phenomena.
    Prerequisite:  One semester of hands-on study of Schenkerian analysis, or permission of instructor.  A reading knowledge of German is preferred but not required.
    NOTE: This seminar does NOT count as Schenker 3.  Schenker 3 is now a separate course, offered every other fall (once every four semesters). 

86100 Seminar in Music History: American Orchestral Music, 1790-1990 Wed 2-5 Prof. John Graziano 3 cr., rm. 3389
A detailed survey of symphonic music in the United States from the end of the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. We will explore the types of music written through the latter part of the nineteenth century, by composers such as Hommann, Heinrich, Fry, Stoepel, and Bristow, as well as the composers of the second New England School, including Beach, Chadwick, Parker, Paine, and Foote, and New York composer Edward MacDowell. The survey of twentieth century composers includes those active during the first half of the century (Griffes, Carpenter, Copland, Harris, etc.), as well as those associated with new trends in the last half (Foss, Glass, Adams, DelTredici, Torke, etc.).

Two major papers and class presentations are required.

86700 Seminar in Music History: After Enlightenment: Beethoven Inside-Out Tues 2-5 Prof. Richard Kramer 3 cr., rm. 3491
Commonly read as testaments of the Revolution and its aftermath, Beethoven's music interrogates Enlightenment aesthetics in convoluted, deeply personal confessionals.   We study these convolutions in such works as the Bonn cantatas; some early songs; the Sonata "quasi una fantasia"in C-sharp minor ("Moonlight");  Leonore/Fidelio; the Incidental Music for Goethe's Egmont; the String Quartet in F minor (Opus 95); some folksong settings; the Missa solemnis; some later songs; the Ninth Symphony; the String Quartet in B-flat, Opus 130.  Topics will be amplified in a range of readings, of Beethoven's time and ours, from the perspectives of critic, historian,biographer, theorist.

88400 Regional Studies: Music of the Hispanic Caribbean Mon 2-5 Prof. Peter Manuel 3 cr., rm. 3491

89000 Independent Study and Composition Tutorial (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1-12cr.

89100 Composers Seminar Thurs 2-5 Prof. Bruce Saylor 3 cr., rm. 3491

90000 Dissertation Supervision (Room and Campus TBA) Staff 1cr.

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