S-Analytical Tech/Post-Tonal

Introduction to the theory and analysis of post-tonal music, drawn from the work of Forte, Rahn, Perle, and others. Basic concepts including pitch class, integer notation, pitch-class sets, normal form, set class relatedness, symmetry, and interval cycles. Analytic applications to compositions of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok, Debussy and others.

Elemental Thinking

This seminar orients our critical engagements around the classical elements of water, earth, air, and fire. The goal of the course is to provide students with both models and opportunities to engage in the kinds of inter- and transdisciplinary scholarship, criticism, artistic-creation, and activism that will shape the future of the environmental humanities.

Current Topics/Music History

This course will provide graduate students in all Music Department areas the opportunity to deeply explore a bounded topic in musical culture by examining it through a historical lens. This course is defined by its focus on historiography, in other words the question of how a particular topic within musical culture has been established, explained, theorized, and debated by people over time. Thus, another theme of the course regardless of its specific focus in a given semester will be introducing students to the methods and practices of musicological research.
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