Courses by semester
Courses for Spring 2024
Complete Cornell University course descriptions are in the Courses of Study .
| Course ID | Title | Offered |
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| MUSIC1100 |
Elements of Musical Notation
This four-week course fulfills the requirement of basic pitch, rhythm, and score-reading skills needed for some introductory courses and 2000-level courses with prerequisites.
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Fall. |
| MUSIC1105 |
Building Musical Skills
This course is designed to develop and strengthen your fundamental musical skills through embodied music interaction. You will compose, improvise, listen, and perform. You will use fundamental musical materials such as chords, melodies, and rhythms, and learn to notate music with accepted systems and describe it with appropriate terminologies. Using your voice, the keyboard, and other instruments, you will stimulate your creativity, refine your listening skills, and put your ideas into practice. The course will address music-making from a diverse set of cultures and traditions, and the skills you acquire will be transferrable to a wide range of applications.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC1212 |
Music on the Brain
This course is for anyone who listens to music or plays music and wonders what's happening in your brain that makes you feel the way you do. Starting with the music each of you knows and loves—the soundtrack to your life—we'll tackle questions like: What is the relationship between speech and music? Do animals have music, too? How does the brain process aspects of music, including rhythm, melody, harmony, and form? Why does some music trigger an emotional response? What does it mean to say that music is an embodied behavioral act? What is the relationship between music and memory? Through lectures, discussions, experiments, compositions, recording technologies, student presentations/performances and writing assignments we'll explore how/why you've chosen the particular tunes on the soundtrack of your life, and how your brain processes musical thoughts and experiences.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC1213 |
Music on the Brain Field Study– Whale Conservation: Marine Stewardship in Cape Cod Bay
This course provides Cornell students with the opportunity to collaborate with the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) on their annual Ghost Gear Removal Program. MUSIC 1212 students will expand on their critical engagement with acoustic communication in other animals through a deep exploration of marine habitat and anthropogenic environmental impact as part of a community-engaged experience. Students will work with CCS to remove ghost gear, learn from CCS scientists about the complex network of issues impacting marine conservation efforts in Cape Cod, and create a multi-media project focused on creative responses and practical solutions to share with the public.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC1312 |
History of Rock Music
This course examines the development and cultural significance of rock music from its origins in blues, gospel, and Tin Pan Alley up to alternative rock and hip hop. The course concludes with the year 2000.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2102 |
Theory, Materials and Techniques II
Theory, Materials, and Techniques II surveys tonal music as conceived and practiced throughout late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe. The course combines modern pedagogical methods with the study of relevant historical sources and incorporates active learning at the keyboard. Topics to be covered include the analysis of form and genre; advanced techniques of modulation; transformational theory and other approaches to the configuration of diatonicism and chromaticism; and the relationship of words and music in nineteenth-century song. During section meetings, the concepts and skills introduced in lecture will be practiced at the keyboard as well as vocally. Other topics to be covered in sections include advanced aural skills; sight singing; score reading; and the improvisation of preludes.
Full details for MUSIC 2102 - Theory, Materials and Techniques II |
Spring. |
| MUSIC2112 |
Collaborative Songwriting
Collaborative Songwriting introduces students to the practice of songwriting through workshop-formatted classes. We will explore the ingredients of song (lyrics, melody, delivery, harmony, rhythm, form, texture, timbre, and arrangement) in diverse collaborative contexts through analysis, composition, recording technologies, performance, and concert reports. Proficiency on one or more musical instruments is required. Collaborative Songwriting can be taken as a stand-alone course or as part of the Songwriting sequence.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2130 |
Collaborative Creativity
Introduction to the collaborative creation of pieces of music, whether composed, improvised, or some combination of the two. The specific focus in terms of genre, style, and model is determined by the instructor, and may encompass formats as diverse as memorized melodies in song form, roughly defined structures and instructions, and fully notated scores. In all cases, material will be developed through workshop sessions, and will be performed publicly and/or recorded.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2201 |
Introduction to Music Studies
This course introduces students to the study of music as an expression of history and culture by examining the ways in which music creates meaning, knowledge, archives, and identities. Musical examples will be drawn from a broad range of styles, chronological periods, and geographical locations; and students will engage with live performance as well as various forms of recorded music and mediated performance. Along with considering music as sound, the course will examine different modalities of writing about music—journalistic, academic, and creative—and we will think about how these musical texts, and those that the students produce, function to situate music as discourse. The course will develop critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2250 |
The American Musical
The musical is a distinct and significant form of American performance. This course will consider the origins, development, and internationalization of the American musical and will emphasize the interpenetration of the history of musical theatre with the history of the United States in the 20th century and beyond. We will investigate how political, social, and economic factors shape the production of important American musicals-and how, in turn, musicals shape expressions of personal identity and national ideology. Key texts include Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Hair, and Rent.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2330 |
Music in and of East Asia
This course explores the breadth of music found in present day China, Japan, and Korea--from indigenous musical traditions, through adaptations of Western art music, up to the latest popular styles--as well as the presence of traditional East Asian musics outside East Asia, including right here at Cornell. In both cases, music offers a lens for examining the myriad social and cultural forces that shape it, and that are shaped by it. The course's academic focus on critical reading and listening, written assignments, and discussion is complemented by opportunities to engage directly with music, whether attending concerts or participating in workshops with student-led ensembles.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2380 |
Performing Hip Hop
This course is a hybrid seminar/performance forum that combines scholarly exploration of hip hop musical aesthetics with applied performance. Students will engage in online and in-class discussions of hip hop musical aesthetics, contextualized historically, socially, and culturally through weekly reading and listening assignments. They will also devote significant time to creating and workshopping individual and collaborative musical projects. Formal musical training is not required, but students should have experience making music (instrumentalists, beat makers, lyricists, vocalists, beatboxers, etc.), and should have at least a basic familiarity with hip hop music. Students who wish to enroll in the course should contact the professor for more information.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2441 |
Shaping Sound II
In the second part of Shaping Sound - an introduction course to experimentation in sound, composition - we will continue to experiment with creating, manipulating, and transforming sounds. By using everyday sounds, materials, notations, and guided improvisations, we aim to create forms of interacting, listening, sonic textures, and structures. Through this process, we will question notions of sound perception and generate new forms of sonic knowledge. In a workshop environment, we will explore influential compositions and artworks from the 20th century to the present day, as starting points for discussions on form, concept, and artistic method. A larger project inspired by the works examined throughout the course can be presented as a composition, sound object, an installation, or any combination thereof.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2701 |
Music and Digital Gameplay
This course considers both music and digital games in light of their playability. It aims to provide students with critical frameworks for addressing the diverse roles played by music in digital games as well as the ways in which playing digital games can be considered a musical activity. Focusing on games across an array of genres from first-person shooters to rhythm-action titles, the course will introduce students to recent scholarship on digital games from multiple disciplinary angles. No formal musical training is necessary, but suitably qualified students may take the course as a 3000-level elective by signing up for MUSIC 3901 and completing additional research components involving the creation and/or analysis of specific soundtracks or performances.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC2703 |
Thinking Media
From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, "Thinking Media" offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three millennia. Featuring an array of guests from across Cornell, including faculty from Communication, Comparative Literature, German Studies, Information Science, Literatures in English, Music, and Performing & Media Arts, the course will present diverse perspectives on how to think with, against, and about media in relation to the public sphere and private life, archaeology and science fiction, ethics and aesthetics, identity and difference, labor and play, knowledge and power, expression and surveillance, and the generation and analysis of data.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC3141 |
The Composer's Toolbox
The Composer's Toolbox is a course that equips undergraduates with the skills and techniques needed to compose and notate original works of music. There will be opportunities to learn how to develop and transform musical material, to gain an understanding of different compositional techniques and styles through existing repertoire, to enhance critical thinking and listening skills, to refine score notation and to work one-on-one with performers. With these new tools, students will work to develop a collection of miniatures as well as a short multi-movement work for 1-4 players throughout the semester. All new pieces will be workshopped, performed and recorded.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC3305 |
Eclectic Jazz History
In hip jazz clubs, in concerts, and on recent recordings, today's dominant "trend" seems to be extreme eclecticism: "jazz" approaches mashed up with a host of musics other-than-jazz, or emphasizing personal stylistic idiosyncrasies over adherence to stylistic norms. For over three decades, "New Jazz Studies" has challenged notions of jazz as unified history; if "the past explains the present," though, has jazz history missed something? This jazz history course takes eclecticism as a historiographical theme in seeking to understand how today's musicians tug at the seams confining "jazz."
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Spring. |
| MUSIC3325 |
Punk Rock Feminism Rules: Riot Grrrl, Community Building, and the Archive
"Revolution Girl Style, Now!" Riot Grrrls were young, college-aged punk musicians and fans in the 1990s who were fed up with the subculture's sexist and violent undertones. Through writing and sharing lyrics, hand-made zines, and recordings, they hoped to create a safer, more equitable punk scene. Students in this course will consider research methods around archives, collections, and acquisition, as well as what it means as a researcher to come across aspects of their own identity reflected through primary materials. This class intentionally asks provocative questions about what constitutes good music in a "do-it-yourself" aestheticized scene, how play and fun have their place in serious activist work, and encourages students to question how (and if) music can represent communal identity.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC3431 |
Sound Design
Covering the basics of digital audio, bioacoustics, psychoacoustics and sound design, as they apply to theatre, film and music production. Students create soundscapes for text and moving image using ProTools software.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3480 |
Brazilian Culture through its Music
Few areas of cultural expression can rise to the importance of music in Brazilian life. This seminar-style course employs discussion, critical reading and listening – and hands-on music-making – to investigate Brazilian culture, history, and politics through the lens of its music. Samba will be a significant focus, but we will also discuss a range of additional regional and national styles. Along with two class meetings per week, our "discussion" will coincide with rehearsals for Deixa Sambar, Cornell's Brazilian ensemble. The course will be taught in English. Music experience is not necessary, but engagement in music-making is an integral part of the course.
Full details for MUSIC 3480 - Brazilian Culture through its Music |
Spring. |
| MUSIC3511 |
Individual Instruction
Individual instruction in voice, organ, harpsichord, piano and fortepiano, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and some brass and woodwind instruments to those students advanced enough to do college-level work in these instruments. For more information about individual instruction, see the section titled Musical Instruction.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3513 |
Individual Instruction
Individual instruction in voice, organ, harpsichord, piano and fortepiano, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and some brass and woodwind instruments to those students advanced enough to do college-level work in these instruments. For more information about individual instruction, see the section titled Musical Instruction.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3514 |
Individual Instruction
Individual instruction in voice, organ, harpsichord, piano and fortepiano, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and some brass and woodwind instruments to those students advanced enough to do college-level work in these instruments. For more information about individual instruction, see the section titled Musical Instruction.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3602 |
Chorus
A nationally renowned choral ensemble and vibrant student-driven organization specializing in repertoire for sopranos and altos. Collaborates frequently with the Glee Club to present mixed-voice repertoire and major works. Tours and records annually.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3603 |
Glee Club
A nationally renowned choral ensemble and vibrant student-driven organization specializing in repertoire for tenors and basses. Collaborates frequently with the Chorus to present mixed-voice repertoire and major works. Tours and records annually.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3604 |
Chorale
A course for singers wishing to develop their musicianship, sight-reading, and vocal technique. The Chorale is a performing ensemble, and is focused on the development of essential skills to a high level, preparing students with the musical foundations necessary for a life in choral music.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3609 |
Brazilian Ensemble - Deixa Sambar
Deixa Sambar performs several styles of samba, Brazil's national music. Members need not have prior background in music-making, but a good sense of rhythm is desirable. Members include students as well as Ithaca community members, brasileiros as well as newcomers to Brazilian culture. Rehearsals develop playing skills, with a deep emphasis on cultural understanding of this vital, community-based music.
Full details for MUSIC 3609 - Brazilian Ensemble - Deixa Sambar |
Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3610 |
Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
Performs the traditional repertoire of Central Javanese gamelan.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3613 |
Cornell Steel Band
The Cornell Steel Band explores the wide variety of music for an orchestra of instruments fashioned from 55-gallon oil drums, and an "engine room" of non-pitched percussion. Interwoven into the focus on hands-on practice is reflection on the meanings of steel band, historically and in the present, in its native Trinidad and Tobago and here in the United States. Formal musical training is not necessary, though a sense of rhythm and a good ear are helpful.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3615 |
Jazz Repertory Ensemble
Study and performance of classic and contemporary big band literature. Rehearsal once a week with one to two performances a semester.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC3616 |
Cornell Hip-Hop Collective
This course is open to experienced rappers, beatmakers, and vocalists interested forging collaborative relationships with other students. Taking as a foundation hip-hop's relationship to social justice, each semester we will work together to plan and record an EP on a theme or keyword chosen as a group. We will construct and analyze playlists of inspirational material, identifying specific hip-hop compositional strategies for creating beats and rhymes on a theme, and will use these tools to create and workshop our own collaborative tracks in weekly meetings. Please contact the instructor to audition.
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Fall, spring. |
| MUSIC3621 |
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
This course will provide its members an engaging and vigorous orchestral experience where they will expand their knowledge and enjoyment of advanced repertoire with like-minded musicians. CSO is committed to offering rich concert programming experiences through major works of the orchestral canon as well as groundbreaking works representing music of our time. The primary objective of the course is to achieve a learning outcome that is student and ensemble driven, strengthening the confidence and artistic depth of each musician.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3631 |
Cornell Wind Symphony
The Cornell Wind Symphony unites student musicians in an ensemble dedicated to the study and performance of emerging and traditional wind repertoire. The Cornell Wind Symphony unites student musicians in an ensemble dedicated to the study and performance of emerging and traditional wind repertoire. In Spring 2021, the Wind Symphony will likely make music in both in-person and remote settings. Full details and audition instructions will be posted on www.cuwinds.com as they become available.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3634 |
Cornell Percussion Group
The Cornell Percussion Ensemble studies and performs un-conducted percussion chamber music from the rapidly expanding repertoire. Utilizing the stylistic and sonic variety that is unique to the medium, the ensemble performs music from the relatively young canon, including classics by Iannis Xenakis and Steve Reich, as well as many pieces composed within the past few years. Members of the ensemble will develop strategic listening and communication techniques through the study of percussion chamber works and mixed chamber ensemble pieces, while advancing their interpretative and technical skills. Prior experience with percussion instruments is required, and participants must meet with the instructor for a short audition before enrolling.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3901 |
Supplemental Study in Music
Intended primarily for music majors, this option allows students enrolled in an approved 1000- or 2000-level 3-credit music history course to pursue independent research and writing projects. Students will study various topics in music history at a more advanced level through supplementary reading, discussion, and writing, by arrangement with the professor.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC3902 |
Choral Musicianship
Co-requisite for new members of Cornell Chorus and Glee Club, based on audition, and open to all students regardless of participation in an ensemble. Recommended for singers at all levels wishing to improve musicianship skills. Foundational and advanced approaches to choral sight-singing, aural skills, diction, score reading, and vocal topics.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4258 |
Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean and African American Dialogues
Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean/African American Dialogues thinks through Julius Scott's theorization of "the common wind' of resistance in the age of the Haitian Revolution to consider the transnational historical impact jazz music and the social and political resonance surrounding the music's history--how the music and its musicians articulated a common-sense cultural response to their societal environments. Students will learn not only how the music is structured and organized, but also what it meant and how it signified for Afro-American and Caribbean communities at various times. Key themes include plantation capitalism, transnationalism, hybridity, the Black radical tradition, and musicking. In this class, jazz is presented not merely as a historical genre, but a space for interaction and communication across the African diaspora and colonial subalterns.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC4313 |
Music and Sound Studies
This seminar serves as a rigorous introduction to the scholarly study of music and sound. We will read classic books and articles as well as more recent influential contributions, concentrating on scholarship in ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and sound studies. We will seek to understand how scholars have analyzed musical works of art, social practices of music making, and cultures of listening in different historical periods and in different parts of the world. Our goal will be to develop a general understanding of the current state of the field.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC4421 |
Technology in Music Performance
This course is an exploration of strategies and techniques for live musical performance with technology. In developing our awareness of tools for live music we will explore several stylistic and technical approaches to performance, from DJ-ing to interactive art to installation. We will engage with an array of software and hardware combinations with a focus on their creative uses, often looking beyond their intended utility to our own, re-imagined purposes.
Full details for MUSIC 4421 - Technology in Music Performance |
Spring. |
| MUSIC4442 |
Modern Harmony: a Survey of Harmonic Practices from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
Modern Harmony is a composition seminar designed to shed light on the myriad harmonic structures and processes that result in many composers' distinctive musical voices.It will survey several harmonic practices that arise from the mid-20th century to the present by examining post-serially derived techniques, modern adaptations of tonality and modality, spectral lineages, microtonality, non-Western influences, negative harmony, stasis/circularity, and non-harmony. Students will hone their theoretical skills by listening to, analyzing, reading/writing about, and presenting on music by a variety of composers from Duke Ellington to Ben Johnston, to Kaija Saariaho, and beyond. Likewise, there will be opportunities to implement ideas that arise throughout the semester in a series of short composition projects.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC4501 |
Individual Instruction
Individual instruction in voice, organ, harpsichord, piano and fortepiano, violin, viola, cello, percussion, and some brass and woodwind instruments to those students advanced enough to do college-level work in these instruments. For more information about individual instruction, see the section titled Musical Instruction.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4615 |
Jazz Ensemble
Study and performance of classic and contemporary big band literature. Rehearsals twice a week with two to four performances per semester.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4616 |
Jazz Combo
Study and performance of classic and contemporary small-group jazz.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4621 |
Cornell Chamber Orchestra
The goal of this music performance course is to provide the opportunity for you as a string performer to come together with other like-minded musicians in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform the highest quality literature from the chamber orchestra repertoire. In this course we will focus on overall concepts of self and ensemble expression, engagement, participation, and performance. We will also address musical concepts of ensemble and individual balance, blend, intonation, phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, rhythmic precision, color, and ensemble clarity. We are going to listen to ourselves, to each other and to the composer's voice.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4631 |
Chamber Flute Ensemble
Small ensembles meet weekly to explore diverse flute repertoire including a variety of instrumentation (piccolo, alto flute, bass flute). There will be a performance opportunity at the end of the semester on a chamber concert or in a studio class setting.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4641 |
Advanced Instruction in Gamelan
Concentrated instruction for students in advanced techniques of performance on Indonesian gamelan instruments.
Full details for MUSIC 4641 - Advanced Instruction in Gamelan |
Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4651 |
Chamber Music Ensemble
Study and performance of chamber music works from duos to octets, for all instruments and voice. Students will be expected to attend a one hour coaching each week and rehearse on their own as well. There will be a final performance at the end of the semester and possible additional performance opportunities.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC4901 |
Independent Study in Music
Independent study affords students the opportunity to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the independent course, must approve the proposed study and agree to provide continuing supervision of the work. Students must prepare a proposal for independent study. To apply for independent study, please complete the online form. Undergraduate student and faculty advisor to determine course of study and credit hours.
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Fall or Spring. |
| MUSIC4912 |
Honors in Music
Second semester of the two semester honors program. In conjunction with faculty, selected candidates formulate a program that allows them to demonstrate their musical and scholarly abilities, culminating in an honors thesis, composition, or recital (or some combination of these), to be presented in their senior year.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC6313 |
Music and Sound Studies
This seminar serves as a rigorous introduction to the scholarly study of music and sound. We will read classic books and articles as well as more recent influential contributions, concentrating on scholarship in ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and sound studies. We will seek to understand how scholars have analyzed musical works of art, social practices of music making, and cultures of listening in different historical periods and in different parts of the world. Our goal will be to develop a general understanding of the current state of the field.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC6400 |
Thinking Media Studies
This required seminar for the new graduate minor in media studies considers media from a wide number of perspectives, ranging from the methods of cinema and television studies to those of music, information science, communication, science and technology studies, and beyond. Historical and theoretical approaches to media are intertwined with meta-critical reflections on media studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Close attention will be paid to media's role in shaping and being shaped by race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and other politically constructed categories of identity and sociality.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC6422 |
Technology in Music Performance
This course is an exploration of strategies and techniques for live musical performance with technology. In developing our awareness of tools for live music we will explore several stylistic and technical approaches to performance, from DJ-ing to interactive art to installation. We will engage with an array of software and hardware combinations with a focus on their creative uses, often looking beyond their intended utility to our own, re-imagined purposes.
Full details for MUSIC 6422 - Technology in Music Performance |
Spring. |
| MUSIC6442 |
Modern Harmony: A Survey of Harmonic Practices from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
This course is a composition seminar designed to shed light on the myriad harmonic structures and processes that result in many composers' distinctive musical voices. It will survey several harmonic practices that arise from the mid-20th century to the present by examining post-serially derived techniques, modern adaptations of tonality and modality, spectral lineages, microtonality, non-Western influences, negative harmony, stasis/circularity, and non-harmony. Students will hone their theoretical skills by listening to, analyzing, reading/writing about, and presenting on music by a variety of composers from Duke Ellington to Ben Johnston, to Kaija Saariaho, and beyond. Likewise, there will be opportunities to implement ideas that arise throughout the semester in a series of short composition projects.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC6819 |
Urban Justice Lab
Urban Justice Labs are innovative seminars designed to bring students into direct contact with complex questions about race and social justice within the context of American urban culture, architecture, humanities, and media. Drawing from Cornell's collections, such as the Hip Hop Collection, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, the Human Sexuality Collection, holdings on American Indian History and Culture, the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, and the Johnson Museum of Art, students will leverage archival materials to launch new observations and explore unanticipated approaches to urban justice. Urban Justice Labs are offered under the auspices of Cornell University's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities grant. Topic: Sound, Music, Public Space.
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Spring. |
| MUSIC7111 |
Composition
A course for graduate or advanced undergraduate composers (by permission with a portfolio audition) seeking individual music composition instruction, the course combines one-on-one meetings with group seminars featuring workshops, master classes, and/or visiting guests. In addition to individual and group meetings, composers may have opportunities for the reading and/or performance of their work.
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Fall, Spring. |
| MUSIC7306 |
Charles Burney's Musical Travels
The seminar is centered around one of the richest 18th-century texts concerning music: the three-volume diary published in the early 1770s by the English music historian and composer Charles Burney documenting his travels through France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. In addition to Burney's diaries, we will read other travel writings of the period, as well as excerpts from the history of music researched by Burney during his European sojourns. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, the seminar will address themes such as music historiography, biography, cosmopolitanism, politics and music, and changing conceptions of travel and cultural exchange.
Full details for MUSIC 7306 - Charles Burney's Musical Travels |
Spring. |
| MUSIC7901 |
Independent Study in Music
Independent study affords students the opportunity to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. A faculty member, who becomes the student's instructor for the independent course, must approve the proposed study and agree to provide continuing supervision of the work.
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Fall, Spring. |