Music Program Classes
Classes offered at the Graduate Center
in FALL 2003
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Note: In addition to these courses, Graduate Center students
can request permission to take courses at other
CUNY campuses.
Music 70000 Bibliography and Research Techniques
Prof. Allan Atlas Room 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.
Music 71200 Research Techniques in Ethnomusicology
Prof. Stephen Blum
Mondays 10am-1pm Room 3389
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.
Music 74100 Introduction to the Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
Prof. Shaugn O'Donnell Room 3491
Music 74500 Proseminar in Theory/Analysis: Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
Prof. David Gagne
Mondays 10am-1pm Room 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. NOTE - This course is limited to 15 (Ph.D. and DMA students at
the Graduate School only; NOT open for any permit or non-matriculated students).
Music 84200 Seminar in Theory/Analysis: Current Trends in Music
Theory
Prof. Joseph Straus Room 3389
Music 76002 Proseminar in Music History: Topics in the Renaissance
Prof. Ruth DeFord
(Taught in conjunction with MUS 81202)
This pair of courses serves as an introduction to the advanced study of
late medieval and Renaissance music, focusing on issues of rhythm from ca.
1300 to ca. 1600. It consists of two corequisite components:
proseminar (1:30-3:30) and performance workshop (4:30-6:30), the latter
devoted to singing pieces discussed in the proseminar from copies of
original sources. Topics are organized chronologically.
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.
Music 81202
Performance Workshop: Renaissance
Prof. Anne Stone
Room 3491
(Taught in conjunction with MUS 76002; see MUS 76002 for
description.)
Music 81504 Performance Practice: Classical & Early Romantic
Prof. Ray Erickson Room 3491
Study of the traditions of performance practices from 1750-1830,
with special emphasis on Mozart and Beethoven. Considerations will be
given to the theoretical and practical documents; the development of
instruments and related implications for performance practice; questions
of tempo, ornamentation, music and dance; and the role of improvisation.
Class performances will play a major role in the course.
Music 85900 Seminar in Theory/Analysis: Advanced Schenkerian Analysis
Prof. William Rothstein Room 3491
An advanced course in the theory and practice of Schenkerian analysis. Close readings of
Schenker's theoretical and analytical writings, plus a few readings from the secondary
literature, will supplement intensive work in analysis. An oral presentation and several
written assignments will be required. Prerequisite: Intermediate Schenkerian Analysis or
consent of the instructor. A reading knowledge of German is desirable but not required.
Music 86100 Seminar in Music History: Minstrely from the Civil War to the Present
Profs. John Graziano (Music Department) & Michele Wallace (English
Department)
This course examines the development of the minstrel show and minstrelsy from the end of the
Civil War through the twentieth century. Topics to be discussed include the social and racial
aspects of the genre; the spread of minstrel songs and routines to other arts genres,
including vaudeville, musical theater, and film; and the continuing presence of aspects
of minstrelsy in the post-civil rights era. Topics will be examined from the viewpoint
of various disciplines to attempt to construct a context for the confluence of art and society.
A major research project and class presentation are required.
Music 88300 Regional Studies: Indian Music Prof. Peter Manuel
Mondays 2-5pm Room 3389
Music 86600 Seminar in
Music History: Sketches/Fragments /Fantasy
Prof. Richard Kramer Room 3491
Studies in the aesthetics and pragmatics of composition, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, investigated in four
modules: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and "free" fantasy, sonata, and the claims of improvisation, of varied reprise and the idea of obligatory variant. The Mozart fragments and the puzzles of completion. The Beethoven sketchbooks and the quest for the voice of a new style. Schubert and the allure of the "unfinished"; toward an epistemology of Romantic fragment. Work with primary music texts will be coupled to readings in philosophy of creation: Goethe, Sulzer, Kant, Schlegel, among others.
Music 89100 Composers Seminar
Prof. David Olan Room 3491
Classes of previous semesters: Spring
2003, Fall 2002,
Spring 2002, Fall
2001.
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