Music Program Classes

Preview of Fall 2004 Classes offered at the Other CUNY campuses

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
afternoon	MUS 72601 Electronic Music: Howe, Queens,  4:30-7:20pm MUS 72200 Structures 2 : O'Donnell, City College, 4-6:30pm MUS 74000 Style Criticism: Hagar, Brooklyn, 4-6:30pm MUS 76006 American Opera, post-1945: Sonnenberg, Brooklyn, 4-6:30pm	MUS 79801 Solfege and Score Reading: Gagné, Queens, 2:40-3:30pm (+Thur) MUS 717 Performance Class/Pianists: Basquin, Hunter, 3:45-5:30pm MUS 73000 Techniques of Composition Nichols, Queens, 4:30-7:20pm MUS 74501 Schenker 1 Gagne, Queens, 4:30-7:20pm MUS 70000 Bibliography: Oates, Queens,  4:30-7:20pm MUS 75400 Jazz: Washington, Brooklyn, 4:55-6:10pm (+Tues)	MUS 77703 18th-19th Perf. Prac.: Orenstein, Queens, 1:40-4:30pm MUS 70000 Bibliography: Hanning, City College, 4-6:30pm MUS 76302 Music Theory, post-1945: Rupprecht, Brooklyn, 4-6:30pm MUS 76000 Schumann & Brahms: Bushler, City College, 4:30-7pm MUS 78400 20th C: Howe, Queens,  4:30-7:20pm MUS 73000 Dvorak to Ellington Peress, Queens, 4:30-7:20pm	MUS 79801 Solfege and Score Reading: Gagné, Queens, 2:40-3:30pm (+Tues) MUS 75400 Jazz: Washington, Brooklyn, 4:55-6:10pm (+Tues)
evening	MUS 77500 Ethnomusicology I: Hampton Hunter, 6-9pm	MUS 760.73 Monteverdi: Deford, Hunter, 6-9pm MUS 76006 American Women: Hisama, Brooklyn, 6:40-9:10pm	MUS 72400 Music Theory I: Burstein, Hunter, 6-9pm MUS 76003 Bach: MacIntyre, Brooklyn, 6-9pm MUS 76501 Jazz Historiography: Taylor, Brooklyn, 6:40-9:10pm	MUS 75200 Music History II: Kagan, Hunter, 6-9pm

Hunter College

MUS 717 Performance Class for Pianists
Hunter College, Tuesday, 3:45-5:25 pm Rm. 406, 3  credits, Prof. Peter Basquin

MUS 72400 Advanced Studies in Music Theory 1
Hunter College, Wednesday, 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. Susan Kagan
   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 760.73 Monteverdi and the Seconda Prattica
Hunter College, Thursday, 6:10-9:00 pm Rm. 407, 3  credits, Prof. Ruth Deford

MUS 77500 Seminar in Ethnomusicology 1
Hunter College, Monday, 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.

City College
MUS 70000 Bibliography
City College, Thursday, 4:00-6:30 pm, Rm. S79, 3  credits, Prof. Barbara Hanning
The study and evaluation of sources and bibliographical methods.

MUS 72200 Structures 2
City College, Monday,  4:00-6:30 pm, Rm. S79, 2  credits, Prof. Shaugn O'Donnell
   An introduction to post-tonal theory and analysis. The seminar will focus on music by Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and others, and on secondary literature by major theorists of the late 20th century.

MUS 76000 Schumann and Brahms 
City College, Wednesday, 4:30-7:00 pm, Rm. S79, 3  credits, Prof. David Bushler

Brooklyn College
MUS 74000 Seminar in Style Criticism
Brooklyn College, Monday 4:00-6:30pm, Rm. 372G, 3 credits, Prof. Nancy Hager

MUS 75400 Seminar in Advanced Musicianship: Jazz
Brooklyn College, Tuesday/Thursday 4:55-6:10pm, Rm. 247G, 3 credits, Prof. Salim Washington

MUS 76003 Seminar in Music History: Baroque Era, Bach Studies
Brooklyn College, Wednesday 6:40-9:10pm, Rm. 347G, 3 credits, Prof. Bruce MacIntyre
   A multifaceted exploration of the current state of Bach studies, using the study and discussion of selected works from the oeuvre of J. S. Bach. Topics include symbolism, musical rhetoric and convention, performance practice problems and controversies, source-study revelations, reception, common misconceptions, and the use of extant editions. A reading understanding of German will help but is not required.

MUS 76006 Seminar in Music History: 20th C,  American Opera since 1945 
Brooklyn College, Monday 4:00-6:30pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, Prof. Daniel Sonnenberg
   An inquiry into opera as a living American art form, in which we consider the subject matter, musical styles, and performance infrastructure that have defined the post World War II American opera scene. In examining operas by composers such as John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Dominick Argento, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Anthony Davis, Carlisle Floyd, Philip Glass, Daron Hagen, Libby Larson, Tania León, Gian Carlo Menotti, Meredith Monk, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Douglas Moore, Thea Musgrave, William Schuman, Steven Sondheim, and Robert Ward, we will grapple with issues of effective dramaturgy, the distinction between opera and musical theater, and the roles played by innovation, technology, and stylistic eclecticism. 

MUS 76302 Special Topic in Music Theory: The Post-1945 Avant-Garde
Brooklyn College, Wednesday 4:00-6:30pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, Prof. Philip Rupprecht
   This seminar will concentrate on the radical avant-garde art music repertoires that emerged in post-war Europe and America following 1945, with special attention to the 1950s and early 1960s decades. Besides close analysis of key scores of the period, a guiding thread will be the reactions of younger avant-garde figures to their precursors, as documented in their writings (Stockhausen and Ligeti to Webern, Boulez to Stravinsky, Goehr to Schoenberg and Messiaen). 

MUS 76500 Seminar in American Music: Women in American Music  
Brooklyn College, Tuesday 6:40-9:10pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, Prof. Ellie Hisama
   This course will consider the variety of ways that women have participated in American musical life during the twentieth century. Genres will include modernism, experimental music, blues, jazz, pop, and musical theater. We will examine music composed by women; explore representations of women in music; contemplate cultural beliefs that have affected women's participation in music; and reflect upon the role of feminist criticism in music scholarship. 

MUS 76501 Seminar in Jazz History: Jazz Historiography  
Brooklyn College, Wednesday 6:40-9:10pm, Rm. 249G, 3 credits, Prof. Jeffery Taylor
   A survey of significant writings on jazz, from the 1920s to the present. The course will include journalism, critical studies and autobiographies. Recordings, scores, and visual media relevant to the readings will also be studied. 

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

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

MUS 73000 Techniques of Composition
Queens College: Tuesday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 351, 3 credits, Prof. Jeff Nichols

MUS 74501 Schenkerian Analysis 1
Queens College: Tuesday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. David Gagne

MUS 77300 Dvorak to Duke Ellington
Queens College: Wednesday, 4:30-7:20pm, Rm. 226, 3 credits, Prof. Maurice Peress

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 77703 Performance Practice: 18th & 19th Centuries
Queens College: Monday and Wednesday,  1:40-4:30pm, Rm. 351, 3 credits, Prof. Arbie Orenstein

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