The
NYU
Department of Music offers studies in historical musicology,
ethnomusicology, and composition and theory at both the graduate and
undergraduate levels. With its leading research faculty, the Department
grants degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The
Department also sponsors a colloquium series, a concert series, musical
ensembles, and symposia/conferences. Our facilities include musical
instrument collections, a computer music studio, a multimedia computer
lab in ethnomusicology, the American Institute for Verdi Studies, and
the Center for Early Music.
The
University is rich in supporting resources, including the Elmer Holmes
Bobst Library, which houses an important collection of music, books,
periodicals, and microfilms of early musical sources. The Avery Fisher
Center in the Bobst Library has a leading collection of videos and
recordings. The Noah Greenberg Collection of Musical Instruments
(containing the collection of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua) forms a
nucleus for the departments ensemble for the performance of early
music, the Collegium Musicum. Likewise, the World Music Ensembles make
use of the Affelder Collection, which contains a growing variety of
instruments from throughout the world.
In
addition to the resources within the University, the New York City area
presents limitless cultural facilities, among them the New York Public
Library, Pierpont Morgan Library,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, Center for Traditional Music and
Dance, CityLore, World Music Institute, Archives for Contemporary
Music, and the many performing institutions active in the city.
CHAIR OF THE
DEPARTMENT
Professor Michael
Beckerman
DIRECTOR
OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Associate
Professor Suzanne Cusick
DIRECTOR
OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Associate
Professor Jairo Moreno
DIRECTOR
OF THE CENTER FOR EARLY MUSIC
Professor Stanley Boorman
ADMINISTRATOR
Lawren
Young
ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE
Pauline Lum
Department
Chronology
The
Department of Music at Washington Square was established in 1923 with
Albert Stoessel as Acting Chairman, under the deanship of James Buell
Munn, then Dean of Washington Square College, to serve both the
Washington Square College and the College of Arts and Science at the
University Heights campus. Stoessel supervised the Heights music
programs and Philip James was assigned to Washington Square College.
For a period of four years between 1931 and 1935, the Music Department
at the Square was transferred to a short-lived College of Fine Arts
located in midtown. In 1935, the College was dissolved and the
Department was returned to the Washington Square College. During this
period, Alfred Greenfield was appointed Chairman at University
Heights, which continued to offer a purely undergraduate curriculum
with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. This satellite program was dissolved and
moved with the rest of the University Heights College in 1972 to the
Square.
Chairs of the NYU Music
Department
Albert
Stoessel, 1923-
Marion Bauer, 1931 (Acting)
Percy Grainger, 1932
Philip James, 1933-
Martin Bernstein, 1955-
Jan LaRue, 1970
James Haar, 1971-
David Burrows, 1977-
Edward Roesner, 1983-
Gage Averill, 2000-
Michael Beckerman 2004-
(Acting Chairs are listed only if they continued as Chair)
Chronology
1923
Established by Albert
Stoessel at Washington Square
Philip James joins
department
Martin Bernstein
first Music Major
1924
Martin Bernstein
joins department as Instructor (ret. 1972)
Washington Square
department adds Hugh Porter (left 1928)
Washington Square
department adds Charles Haubiel (ret. 1947)
1925
Albert Greenfield
becomes Heights Varsity Glee Club Conductor
1926
Marion Bauer joins
faculty (ret. 1951)
1927
Gustave Reese (ret.
1974)
Jacques Pillois join
faculty (leaves 1930)
1929
Alfred Greenfield
appointed Chairman at Washington Heights
1930
Albert Stoessel
leaves for Juilliard
Washington Square
department transferred to College of Fine Arts
1931
Marion Bauer becomes
Acting Chairwoman
Washington Square
Chorus founded
1932
Percy Grainger
appointed Chairman for one year
1933
Philip James
appointed Chairman (ret. 1955)
Washington Square
Orchestra founded
1934
American
Musicological Society founded at Washington Square with NYUs Gustave
Reese as Secretary
1935
College of Fine Arts
dissolved, department returns to Square
Department admitted
to Graduate School of Arts and Science
1937
Curt Sachs appointed
(ret. 1953; taught PT until 1957)
First M.A. in
Musicology awarded
1938
Hans David appointed
(leaves 1943)
1940
Hugo Leichtentritt
appointed (leaves 1944)
Virgil Thomson
teaches Music Criticism in graduate program
1942
Inauguration of Ph.D.
program
1949
Establishment of
annual Bach Party
1950
First Ph.D. in
Musicology awarded
1953
Curt Sachs retires
(teaches PT until 1957)
1955
Philip James retires
Martin Bernstein
becomes department chair (ret. 1972)
1956
Victor Yellin
appointed (AP)
1957
Jan LaRue appointed
(ret. 1988) (P)
1963
Martin Chusid
appointed (AP)
1964
Gustave Reese
Festschrift presented
1965
Rena Mueller hired as
Secretary
Waverly Consort
founded by NYU students
1967
David Burrows
appointed (AP; ret. 2004)
1968
Brian Fennelly
(composer) appointed (AP; ret. 1996)
Eileen Southern
teaches first Afro-American Music Class (to 1970)
1969
James Haar appointed
(P; leaves 1978)
1970
Martin Bernstein
retires as Chairman
Jan LaRue becomes
Chairman)
Leonard Goines
appointed (ret. 1988)
Martin Bernstein
Seminar Room constructed
Composer David
Chaitkin hired
1971
James Haar becomes
Acting Chair (continues through 1977)
1972
Washington Heights
campus closes
Music department
consolidated at Washington Square
1973
Elaine Brody
(musicologist) joins Square faculty (P; d. 1986)
Bobst Library opens
1974
Purchase of New York
Pro Musica Antiqua Instrument Collection
1975
American Institute
for Verdi Studies formed
1976
Edward Roesner
appointed (AP, musicologist)
Bruce Saylor
appointed (AP Theory; also with a joint appointment in School of
Education, reverts to FAS in 1978, left 1979)
Washington Square
Contemporary Music Society founded (by Brian Fennelly)
1977
David Burrows becomes
Chairman
Dinu Ghezzo (AP)
joint appointment with School of Education (reverts to School of
Education in 1979)
1978
Graduate track in
Ethnomusicology formed
1979
Stanley Boorman
appointed (AP, musicologist)
Salwa El-Shawan (AP;
ethnomusicologist) leaves 1982;
Louis Karchin
appointed (AP, composer)
1980
Center for Early
Music established
Collegium Musicum
formed
Booth-Ferris grant
received for renovation of 220 Main
1982
Kay Shelemay
appointed (AP; ethnomusicologist, leaves 1990)
Martin Bernstein
lecture series established
1983
Edward Roesner
assumes Chairmanship
1984
Segovia Fellowship
established
1985
First M.A. in
ethnomusicology
1986
Robert Bailey
appointed (musicologist, P, Petrie Chair)
Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media opens
1987
Washington Square
Contemporary Music Society moves to three concert series at Merkin Hall
1988
Cliff Eisen appointed
(AP; musicologist, leaves 1995)
1989
M.A. track in
Composition introduced
1990
Elizabeth Tolbert
appointed (AP Ethnomusicologist; leaves 1992)
1991
First Ph.D. in
Ethnomusicology
First M. A. in
Composition and Theory
Washington Square
Chorus ends (eliminated in budget cuts)
1992
Donna Buchanan
appointed (AP Ethnomusicologist; leaves 1996)
Ph.D. track in
Composition and Theory established
1993
Ethnomusicology
ensemble program formed
1997
Gage Averill
appointed (AP, Ethnomusicologist)
Ethnomusicology
Laboratory established
1998
Mercedes Dujunco
appointed (AP, Ethnomusicologist)
Elizabeth Hoffman
appointed (AP, Composer)
Washington Square
Computer Music Studio established
1999
Acquisition of
Liederkranz Society Collection
First Ph.D. in
Composition and Theory
External Review of
the Music Department
Establishment of
Community Arts Technical Assistance Program
2000
Gage Averill becomes
Chairman (Acting Chair, Fall 1999)
Department web site
goes online
2001
Department facilities
expanded and renovated
Electroacoustic music
concert series organized
2002
Suzanne Cusick
appointed (AP, Musicologist)
Michael Beckerman
appointed (P, Musicologist)
Kyra Gaunt appointed
(AP, Ethnomusicologist)
Michael Moloney
appointed NYU Global Distinguished Professor of Music
2003
Jairo Moreno
appointed (AP, Music Theorist)
Deborah Kapchan
(Performance Studies) appointed Affiliate AP
Kimmel Center with
Shorin Practice facilities opens
2004
Michael Beckerman becomes Chairman
2005
Ana María Ochoa Gautier appointed (AP, Ethnomusicologist)
2006
Jason Stanyek appointed (AP, Ethnomusicologist)
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