Intro to Musicology
MUSIC-GA 2101, Section 001
Instructor: Fanny Gribenski
Wednesdays 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Course Description: Proseminar in current research methodology and musicological thought. Topics discussed include techniques for the examination of primary source materials; principles of musical text criticism and editing; and current issues in musicological thought.
Sem/Tech of Music Composition
MUSIC-GA 2162, Section 001
Instructors: Jaime Oliver & Elizabeth Hoffman
Tuesdays 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Course Description: Examination of techniques of music composition as they are applied to the creation of musical works. Compositional practice is studied and evaluated both from the standpoint of craft and aesthetics. Students create compositions, and works are performed in public concerts.
Special Studies: Analysis of 20th and 21st Century Music
MUSIC-GA 2198, Section 001
Instructor: Louis Karchin
Thursdays 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to approaches in music analysis applicable to works of the standard cannon as well as the most recent music of our time. Analytic models, beginning with a formal-descriptive approach and continuing with studies of Schenker, Reti, Schoenberg, Lerdahl, Boulez and others, will be discussed in the context of the study of musical scores. Composers included will represent those of the common practice period, as well as modern masters such as Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Boulez, Takemitsu, Lindberg, Saariaho, Lachenmann and others.
Special Studies: Music, Signs, and Symbols
MUSIC-GA 2198, Section 002
Instructor: David Samuels
Tuesdays 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Course Description: This graduate seminar will explore the ways that music and sound have been thought of as symbolic. What gives musical sounds their significance? How have various theories of sign-systems fit the questions surrounding the qualities of music and sound? A key approach for us will be to critically examine the idea that the ability to create, manipulate, and interpret signs is definitive of human being.
Special Studies: Sound Supplies
MUSIC-GA 2198, Section 003
Instructor: Fanny Gribenski
Thursdays 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Course Description: This seminar examines the history of musical instruments and audio technologies from the point of view of their raw materials. Throughout the class, we will draw on postcolonial literature, ecological critique and recent histories of infrastructures and logistics in media studies to trace sound’s complex supply chains, from the gathering and processing of various materials – different kinds of wood, iron, ivory, sand, animal skins, shellac etc. – to diverse manufacturing sites, to large-scale transportation systems, to communities of users. In doing so, we will uncover the hidden sociopolitical and environmental cost of modern sonic and musical cultures while asking how sound and music may renew our understanding of supply chains.
Special Studies: Music and Sound Archives
MUSIC-GA 2198, Section 004
Instructor: Brigid Cohen
Mondays 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Course Description: This seminar introduces the study of music and sound archives with the aim of preparing students for independent research projects. Over the course of the seminar, we will interrogate the many ways we continually retrieve, lose, and transform the past through informal daily habits and more systematic methods of preserving memory. We will pay special attention to the silences that dwell in archives and define their limits as repositories of knowledge. We will also address technical and ethical dilemmas that surround archival sound collection and preservation in the digital age. Working in the special collections at NYU and at the New York Public Library, students will gain a practical footing in a variety of music and sound archives and the larger questions of memory they raise. Special attention will be paid to sound and music archives in their relation to the nation-state, empire, genocide memorialization, labor, protest, and social justice.
Reading and Research
MUSIC-GA 3119, Section 001
Independent study with a faculty supervisor. Must have the approval of the director of graduate studies and the proposed supervisor.
Reading and Research
MUSIC-GA 3119, Section 002
Independent study with a faculty supervisor. Must have the approval of the director of graduate studies and the proposed supervisor.
Proseminar in current research methodology and musicological thought. Topics discussed include techniques for the examination of primary source materials; principles of musical text criticism and editing; and current issues in musicological thought.
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Proseminar in current research methodology and musicological thought. Topics discussed include techniques for the examination of primary source materials; principles of musical text criticism and editing; and current issues in musicological thought.
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