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Fall
2009 Graduate Courses
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Collegium
Musicum - G71.1001
Monday & Wednesday 6:00 - 8:00
Instructors: Stanley Boorman and Margaret Panofsky
Performance
ensemble concentrating on the music of the Middle Ages through the high
baroque and on neglected works or genres from other periods.
Introduction
to Musicology - G71.2101
Wednesday 3:00 - 5:00 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Suzanne Cusick
This
course is intended 1) to introduce current scholarship in musicology -
its concerns, its methods, its historical, cultural and theoretical
foundations, and its habitus;
2) to give students specific practice in the skills of critical
reading, historical research, imaginative use of musical sources, and
research project design that characterize current musicological
practice; 3) to teach the writing of three genres of musicology - a
book review, an abstract, and a research proposal; and 4) most
importantly, to teach students how to teach themselves a field, and
how, once they've done so, to capture, refine, and transform into
scholarly work, the new thoughts and new ideas about various fields
that will rise spontaneously from within their own heads and hearts.
Ethnomusicology:
History & Theory - G71.2136
Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: David Samuels
A
broad intellectual history of the discipline, surveying landmark
studies and important figures. Examines major paradigms, issues, and
frameworks in ethnomusicology. The relation of ethnomusicology to
others disciplines, and the relations of knowledge and power that have
produced them. Serves as an introduction to the field of
ethnomusicology.
Techniques of
Music Composition - G71.2162
Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30 (Silver 220)
Instructor (section 001): Louis Karchin
Instructor
(section 002): Elizabeth Hoffman
Students
meet individually with a selected faculty member frequently throughout
the semester, to review and discuss their ongoing creative work. All
students enrolled in this course must also participate in a bi-weekly
seminar, led by rotating faculty, that will encompass discussions of
technical, aesthetic, and theoretical issues related to 20th/21st
century composition. These seminars may also include talks or
masterclasses by guests actively involved in the creation or
performance of new music.
Special
Studies: Gypsy Music and Music of the Roma - G71.2198.001
Thursday
10:00 - 12:00 (Waverly 268)
Instructor: Michael Beckerman
This course looks at the broad phenomenon of "Gypsy Music": what it
seems to be (as defined by those who play and study it), where it
came from, and how its musical features manifest cultural and
historical aspects of the lives of the people who created it.
Concurrently we will look at "Gypsiness" as it has been understood and
(re)imagined by white European society, embodying qualities of
virtuosity, exoticism and expressivity that have been central to the
development of 19th century music.
Our exploration will range from the creation and employment of the
so-called "Style Hongroise" beginning with such sources as the Uhrovska
Manuscript, to the marketing of Gypsy music today; and from
ethnographic approaches to Romani performance to the philosophical and
ethical considerations involved in studying it.
Throughout the course we will consider the various ways Roma and
related groups have created a range of sound worlds in such places as
Russia, Hungary, Spain and the Balkans under considerable social,
political and commercial pressure. As part of the inquiry we shall
explore the direction of Roma/Gypsies in literature, painting, cinema
and popular song. Additional readings and discussions will engage
political issues and musical materials related to Porjamos or the Roma
Holocaust.
Special
Studies: Ethnomusicology - G71.2199.001
Friday 1:00 - 5:00 (tentatively)
Instructor: Marc
Perlman
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