Music Program Classes

Preview of Fall 2002 Classes offered at the Other CUNY campuses

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
afternoon	MUS 79003 Debussy & Ravel: Orenstein, Queens College, 3-4:15pm MUS 76402, Analysis of 20th Century Music: Rupprecht, Brooklyn College, 3:25-4:40pm MUS 72100 Structures: O'Donnell, City College, 3-4:15pm MUS 72601 Electronic Music: Howe, Queens College,  4:30-7:20pm MUS 74200 Style: Burnett, Queens College,  4:30-7:20pm	MUS 75400 Musicianship: Jazz:   Washington, Brooklyn College, 2:40-3:55pm MUS 79801   Solfege and Score Reading: Gagné, Queens College, 3-3:50pm MUS 70000 Bibliography: Graziano, City College, 4:30-7pm	MUS 79003 Debussy & Ravel: Orenstein, Queens College, 3-4:15pm MUS 76402, Analysis of 20th Century Music: Rupprecht, Brooklyn College, 3:25-4:40pm MUS 72100 Stuctures: TBA, City College, 3-4:15pm MUS 740/74100 Style Criticism: Bushler, City College, 4:30-7pm MUS 77300 Ars Sublitor:   Stone, Queens College,  4:30-7:20pm MUS 78400 20th C: Howe, Queens College,  4:30-7:20pm	MUS 75400 Musicianship: Jazz:   Washington, Brooklyn College, 2:40-3:55pm MUS 79801 Solfege and Score Reading: Gagné, Queens College, 3-3:50pm MUS 75200 Counterpoint:   Del Tredici, City College, 4:30-7pm MUS 70000 Bibliography: Hallmark, Queens College,  4:30-7:20pm	MUS 77704 20th C Performance: Neidich, Queens College,  2-4:50pm
evening	MUS 72400 Music Theory I: Burstein, Hunter College, 6:10-9pm MUS 789.52 Analysis in Performance: Basquin, Hunter College, 6:10-9pm	MUS 75200 Music History II: Deford, Hunter College, 6:10-9pm	MUS 78600 History of Jazz: Washington, Brooklyn College, 6:30-9pm	MUS 77500 Ethnomusicology I: Hampton Hunter College, 6:10-9pm MUS 76006 20th C Music History: TBA, Brooklyn College, 7-9:30pm

Hunter College
MUS 72400 Advanced Studies in Music Theory 1
Hunter College, Monday, 6:10-9:00 pm Rm. 407, 3  credits, Prof. Poundie Burstein
Thorough review of concepts of harmony, figured bass, three-part species counterpoint, and form.  Includes introduction to the selections from the scholarly literature of music theory and analysis of pieces from the mainstream of Western music.

MUS 75200 Advanced Studies in Music History 2
Hunter College, Tuesday, 6:10-9:00 pm Rm. 406, 3  credits., Prof. Ruth Deford
Study of advanced topics in the history of music in the European tradition since 1750. Includes analysis of music in different styles, studies of the role of music in cultural history, and instruction in research and writing about music.

MUS 77500 Seminar in Ethnomusicology 1
Hunter College, Thursday, 6:10-9:00 pm Rm. 406, 3  credits., Prof. Barbara Hampton
A history of the discipline; the development of theories and methods; selected problems.This course equips the student with skills necessary to describe and explain musical systems in various cultures. Seminars will assume the form of lecture-discussion sessions.Students are required to read assigned material relevant to theories which have gained currency in ethnomusicology, assess the theories and understand their place in the history of ethnomusicology. A written report of independent research on a topic relevant to ethnomusicological theory is required.

MUS 789.52 Analysis in Performance
Hunter College, Monday, 6:10-9:00 pm Rm. 635, 3 credits, Prof. Peter Basquin
Analysis of various works in tonal and post-tonalstyles, with emphasis on those aspects (harmonic, melodic, structural,
rhythmic and thematic) that influence performance decisions. Students will prepare works for analysis and performance in class. Assigned readings, listenings, short weekly analyses and a longer final paper are required.

City College
MUS 70000 Bibliography
City College, Tuesday, 4:30-7:00 pm, Rm. S79, 3  credits, Prof. John Graziano
The study and evaluation of sources and bibliographical methods.

MUS 72100 Structures 1
City College, Monday and Wednesday,  3:00-4:15 pm, Rm. S79, 3  credits, Prof. Shaughn O'Donnell
Harmony, voice-leading, and tonal structures in tonal music.   

MUS 74000/74100 Style Criticism 1&2 
City College, Wednesday, 4:30-7:00 pm, Rm. S79, 3  credits, Prof. David Bushler
The components of style; musical material, its selection, manipulation and expressiveness. Characteristics of individual composers and schools as determined by creative personality, nationality and milieu.

MUS 75200 Advanced Counterpoint
City College, Thursday, 4:30-7:00 pm, Rm. S182, 3  credits, Prof. David Del Tredici   
Composition of tonal and/or modal counterpoint according to style models. Analysis of tonal and/or modal counterpoint.

Brooklyn College
MUS 75400 Seminar in Advanced Musicianship: Jazz
Brooklyn College: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:40-3:55 pm, Rm. 347G, 3 credits, Prof. Salim Washington
Work in advanced ear-training, harmonic function, chordal progression, blues patterns, and vocabulary of jazz; aural and written transcriptions of improvisations; principles of major/minor, modal, pentatonic, altered, and whole-tone scale constructions; exploration of the relationship between improvisation and harmonic context. Prerequisite: permission of the director.

MUS 76006  Seminar in Music History: 20th Century
Brooklyn College: Thursday, 7:00-9:30 pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, professor TBA
Investigation of general principles and specific phenomena pertaining to the period.  

MUS 76402 Analysis of 20th Century Music
Brooklyn College:  Monday and Wednesday,  3:25-4:40 pm, Rm. 356G, 3 credits, Prof. Philip Rupprecht
Intensive analysis of twentieth-century music. Developing adequate theoretical concepts and analytic techniques.

MUS 78600  History of Jazz
Brooklyn College:  Wednesday, 6:30-9:00 pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, Prof. Salim Washington
Survey of styles, genres, and forms of jazz from its origin to the present. Analysis of selected works.

Queens College
MUS 70000 Bibliography
Queens College: Thursday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 125B , 3 credits, Prof. Rufus Hallmark

MUS 72601 Electronic Music Studio I
Queens College: Monday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 310/302, 3 credits, Prof. Hubert Howe

MUS 74200 Style Criticism
Queens College: Monday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 351,  3 credits, Prof. Henry Burnett

MUS 77300 Ars Subtilior: Art Songs from Machaut to Dufay
Queens College: Wednesday,  4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 310, 3 credits, Prof. Anne Stone

MUS 77704 20th Century Performance Practice
Queens College: Friday, 2:00-4:50pm, Rm. 214, 3 credits, Prof. Charles Neidich

MUS 78400 20th Century I
Queens College: Wednesday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 351, 3 credits, Prof. Hubert Howe

MUS 79801 Advanced Solfege & Score Reading
Queens College: Tuesday and Thursday, 3-3:50pm, Rm. 314, 3 credits, Prof. David Gagné
Intensive work in musicianship skills, including but not limited to solfège, reading of alto, tenor, and soprano clefs, advanced work in rhythm and meter, score reading at the piano, and singing of tonal and post-tonal melodies. Dictation in one, two, and four parts.

MUS 79003 Debussy & Ravel
Queens College: Monday and Wednesday,  3-4:15pm, Rm. 351, 3 credits, Prof. Arbie Orenstein

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