Music Program Classes
Classes offered at the Graduate Center
in FALL 2005
Note: In addition to these courses, Graduate Center students
can request permission to take courses at other
CUNY campuses.
Click here for Spring 2005 classes.
Music 70000 Bibliography and Research Techniques
Prof. Atlas
Tuesdays 10am-1pm 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. 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 a survey of the state of research in one area. Required of
students concentrating in ethnomusicology.
Music 74100
Introduction
to the Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
Prof. Lambert
Fridays 10am-1pm
Room 3389
Music 74500
Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
Prof. Gagné
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 12.
Music 76002
Proseminar in Music History: Topics in the
Renaissance
Prof. DeFord
Mondays 1:30-3:30pm Room 3491
(Taught in conjunction with MUS 81202)
This pair of courses serves as an introduction to the advanced study of
Renaissance music, focusing on issues of rhythm from ca. 1400 to ca.
1600. It consists of two corequisite components: proseminar (1:30-3:30)
and performance workshop (4:00-6:00), the latter devoted to singing
pieces discussed in the proseminar from copies of original sources.
Topics are organized chronologically.
Music 81202
Performance Workshop: Renaissance
Prof. DeFord
Mondays 4-6pm Room 3491
(Taught in conjunction with MUS 76002; see MUS 76002 for description.)
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 83000
Popular Music in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Prof. Manuel
Mondays 2-5pm Room 3389
Music 83700 Analysis of Rhythm
Prof. Blum
Wednesdays 10am-1pm Room 3491
This seminar surveys the fundamental principles of rhythmic
organization in selected musical practices from all continents.
Relationships between techniques of twentieth-century composers and
older sets of procedures are a major concern. The workload includes
exercises in transcription and analysis as well as a larger analytic
project.
Music
82000 Analysis for Performers
Prof. Graziano
Tuesdays 2-5pm Room 3491
Analysis of various works in tonal and post-tonal styles, with emphasis on those aspects
(harmonic, melodic, melodic, structural, rhythmic and thematic) that influence performance
decisions. Students will prepare works for analysis and performance in class. This course
is intended for and required of all students in the DMA Program.
Music 84200
Current Trends in Music Theory
Prof. Straus
Tuesdays 2-5pm
Room 3389
Music 85900
Schenker III
Prof. Rothstein
Wednesdays 2-5pm Room 3491
This is the final semester of the three-semester sequence in Schenkerian
theory and analysis. In this final semester, the balance of study will
tilt toward the theoretical side. We will analyze short pieces that pose
special difficulties. In addition, we will ponder some of Schenker's
theoretical writings, chiefly from The Masterwork in Music and
Free Composition. We will also study writings by those who have
sought to make Schenkerian theory more explicit or more rigorous. Some
or all of the following authors (here listed alphabetically) may be
included: Benjamin, Brown, Komar, Lerdahl and Jackendoff, Neumeyer,
Proctor, Renwick, Rothstein, Westergaard, and Winham. Prerequisite:
Intermediate Schenkerian analysis, or equivalent experience and consent
of the instructor.
Music 86300
Jazz Historiography
Prof. Taylor
Fridays 10am-1pm Room 3491
This seminar will examine the variety of ways jazz has been and is being
studied, with particular emphasis on work of the last two decades.
Readings will be drawn from critical literature, oral history,
musicology, ethnomusicology, and other disciplines. The course is not a
jazz history survey, though music from a variety of periods will be
examined. Rather, the seminar will examine how tools currently available
to the scholar-from both within and without the academic context-help
understand and appreciate a living music with a rich history and vibrant
future. Final projects will concentrate on jazz musicians currently
living and working in the Greater NYC area. Some prior experience with
jazz and/or popular music studies is preferred.
Music 86600
Surfing the Enlightenment
Prof. Kramer
Thursdays 10am-1pm Room 3491
"What is Enlightenment?" asked Kant, in a famous essay of 1784. We ask
this question again, and enquire into the engagement of Enlightenment
thought in the Arts, concentrating on the writings of Diderot (Rameau's
Nephew, The Paradox of the Actor), Rousseau (The
Origin of Languages), Herder (The Origins of Language),
Lessing (Laokoon), Goethe (commentary on Lessing), Sterne (Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy); and the music of Haydn (Keyboard
Variations in F minor; The Creation), Mozart (aspects of
Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute), Emanuel Bach
(from the collections of keyboard music "fuer Kenner und Liebhaber"),
among other works, together with the overarching issues of genre,
rhetoric and expression in the 1780s.
Music 86900
Feminist Music Studies: Seminar in Music History and
Music Theory
Prof. Hisama
Tuesdays 10am-1pm Room 3491
An interdisciplinary examination of the ways that studies of gender and
sexuality have informed music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, and
composition. We will consider a variety of music in order to investigate
how performers, composers, audiences, scholars, and critics have
understood music to be gendered. The seminar explores and builds upon
previous efforts to theorize music using gender as a unit of analysis.
Readings by Brett, Brooks, Butler, Cusick, Griffin, Guck, Kielian-Gilbert,
Maus, McClary, Perry, Scherzinger, Solie, Tick, Tucker, and others.
Permission of instructor required.
Music
88100
The Roots of Afro-Pop Music
Prof. Hampton
Thursdays 2-5pm
Room 3491
Music
88500
Composers Seminar
Prof. Olan
Thursdays 2-5pm Room 3491
Classes of previous semesters:
Spring 2005,
Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall
2003, Spring
2003, Fall 2002,
Spring 2002, Fall
2001.
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