FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC
Introduction to music, including notation, written and aural skills, and basic conceptual resources of music theory. Exploration of scale, mode, rhythm, meter, texture and form, with reference to a diverse range of musics.
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Introduction to Musicianship
This course is designed for students who have little or no experience with playing, performing, reading, studying, composing, or improvising music. Students will be introduced to both skills and concepts that will enable them to participate in music making and deepen their appreciation of all types of music.
- MW 9:05 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Michael Joviala
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BASSOON INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Mark Timmerman
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CELLO INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Eliot Bailen
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Gwendolyn A Krosnick
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Patrick Jee
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James H Wilson
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CLARINET INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Allen M Blustine
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Bixby Kennedy
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CLASSICAL SAXOPHONE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Paul Cohen
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FLUTE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Sue Anne Kahn
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Susan Palma-Nidel
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Susan Rotholz
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FRENCH HORN INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Brad Gemeinhardt
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GUITAR (BLUEGRASS) INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Hilary Hawke
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Guitar (Popular-Contemporary) Instructio
Guitar (Pop-Cont) Instruc
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar, pop guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
James E Moore
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GUITAR (CLASSICAL) INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
James E Moore
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HARP INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
OBOE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Vicki Bodner
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ORGAN INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Paul Martin Maki
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PERCUSSION INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Ian Sullivan
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PIANO INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Reiko Uchida
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Mirna Lekic
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Kathleen Tagg
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Maria Asteriadou
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Walter Aparicio
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STRING BASS INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
TRUMPET INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
David Krauss
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VIOLA INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Sarah Adams
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Jessica L Thompson
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VIOLIN INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Cyrus S Beroukhim
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Maja S Cerar
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Lisa G Kim
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Muneko Otani
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Richard W Rood
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JAZZ BASS INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Ugonna Okegwo
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JAZZ BASS (ELECTRIC) INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Leo Traversa
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JAZZ GUITAR (ELECTRIC) INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Paul Bollenback
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JAZZ GUITAR (ELECTRIC) INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Leo Traversa
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JAZZ PERCUSSION INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Vince Cherico
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JAZZ PIANO INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Gabriel Guerrero
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Victor J Lin
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Helen Sung
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JAZZ SAXOPHONE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Laubrock Ingrid
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JAZZ TROMBONE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
John David Gibson
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JAZZ TRUMPET INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Don Sickler
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JAZZ VOICE INSTRUCTION
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Christine Correa
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COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
Collegium Musicum is a performing group dedicated primarily to the study and performance of early music, broadly defined.
- W 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sadie Dawkins
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UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA I
Founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, the Columbia University Orchestra is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. The principal mission of the Orchestra is to expose talented student musicians to the highest level of orchestral repertoire. An audition is required.
- T 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jeffrey Milarsky
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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE - CLASSICAL
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various classical ensembles and study with some of the most renowned chamber musicians in New York City. An audition is required.
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Sarah Adams
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Eliot Bailen
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Allen M Blustine
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Patrick Jee
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Maja S Cerar
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June Han
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Sue Anne Kahn
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Muneko Otani
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Susan Palma-Nidel
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Richard W Rood
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Susan Rotholz
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Gwendolyn A Krosnick
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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various classical ensembles and study with some of the most renowned chamber musicians in New York City. An audition is required.
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Instructor:
Kathleen Tagg
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
JAZZ ENSEMBLE - VOCAL JAZZ
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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Instructor:
Christine Correa
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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Instructor:
Leo Traversa
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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Vince Cherico
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Instructor:
Victor J Lin
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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Paul Bollenback
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Instructor:
Don Sickler
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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Instructor:
John David Gibson
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Instructor:
Gabriel Guerrero
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COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience.
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
BLUEGRASS ENSEMBLE
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Hilary Hawke
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
GAGAKU
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Alicia Lindsey
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
HOGAKU: SHAKUHACHI
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Adam Robinson
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
HOGAKU: KOTO
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Yumi Kurosawa
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
KLEZMER ENSEMBLE
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Jeff Warschauer
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WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE
ARAB MUSIC ENSEMBLE
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring.
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Instructor:
Taoufik Ben-Amor
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Performance Seminar MasterClass
Performance Sem MasterCla
Performance Seminar Masterclass is open to classical musicians of any instrument(s) with the highest commitment to performance. Students are admitted via live audition during the first week of classes in the Fall. Each week, two students perform repertoire of their choice for the class and receive feedback from everyone present. The discussions, moderated by the director of the Music Performance Program, Dr. Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, are designed to provide constructive criticism to the performers and to pose questions related to performance from the perspectives of musical interpretation, career management, professional collaboration, and pedagogy.
- W 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Magdalena Baczewska
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ROCK
How did Elvis become the “King of Rock’n’Roll” instead of, for example, Chuck Berry? Who are LaVern Baker, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Etta James and what do they have to do with rock and roll? Why and how did “rock and roll” become “rock”? What are the relationships among rock, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk? What do classical music composers such as J.S. Bach, Modest Mussorgsky, and Philip Glass have to do with rock? How many times has rock “died”? What is rock music’s relevance both historically and today? This course will introduce you to popular music studies, a field of inquiry that draws scholars from a number of different disciplines, including musicology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and literature. Examining rock music in an interdisciplinary way has opened the genre to increasing attention beyond musicological methodologies and assumptions. First, however, we must ask some fundamental questions: for instance, what, exactly,
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popular music as well as, importantly, what differentiates rock music from other genres? Our definitions will reveal some of the assumptions we bring to any discussion of popular music. Throughout this semester, we will question our assumptions about rock music culture through an investigation into a series of keywords. Each keyword will focus our attention on various aspects of rock music in order to think through the complexities of what might, on the surface, seem self-evident. Terms such as “genre” or “the everyday” will be examined to help us gain critical analytical tools with which to assess various rock music productions, artists, and processes.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Kevin Fellezs
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POP MUSICS-AMER'S: COUNTRY MUS
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Instructor:
Aaron A Fox
CULPA: 7
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JAZZ
The musical and cultural features of jazz, beginning in 1900.
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Christopher J Washburne
CULPA: 31
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INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC
An introduction to the potential of digital sound synthesis and signal processing. Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced digital audio techniques. This course aims to challenge some of the tacet assumptions about music that are built into the design of various user interfaces and hardware and fosters a creative approach to using digital audio workstation software and equipment. Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors have priority for enrollment.
- MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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MUSIC THEORY I
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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MUSIC THEORY II
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms.
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Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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Musicianship: Rhythm
In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on musical beat, meter, and rhythm patterns, developing a sense of steady and changing tempo, and an understanding how rhythm contributes to style in music. Rhythmic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the impact of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. This course combines the standards of conservatory musicianship with standards of critical thinking, here represented as critical listening. The repertoire for Musicianship: Rhythm covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.
- MW 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
- TR 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Michael Joviala
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Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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Musicianship: Melody
In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will participate in solo and group activities and projects with a focus on scales, intervals, melodic contour and phrasing, and how they contribute to style in music. The repertoire for Musicianship: Melody covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.
- TR 9:05 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Peter M Susser
CULPA: 20
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Musicianship: Harmony
In this course, students at all levels of experience and musical interest will examine the phenomenon of simultaneous sound with chords and chord progressions, and experience harmony’s impact on musical structure and style. Harmonic articulation, nuance, and interpretation will be developed through the exploration of agogic, metric, tonal, and dynamic accent. The repertoire for Musicianship: Harmony covers vocal and instrumental music, and is open to classical, pop, jazz, folk, music theatre, computer, and international music styles and genres.
- MW 3:05 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- TR 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Mary Asti
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Sadie Dawkins
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Music as Black Archive
This seminar explores Black musical history as a vital site of memory, archive, and storytelling, centering music within Black experience, history, and culture. Framed as a seminar on musical thought, the course begins in the early 1900s and moves to the present day, tracing how Black music in the United States has functioned as a vessel for preserving history, shaping Black intellectual traditions, and narrating lived experience. Through practices of deep listening, students critically examine not only what we hear, but how we hear—interrogating racialized listening and the ways Black sound has been interpreted, appropriated, and institutionalized. Drawing on the ideals of early twentieth-century Black intellectuals, the course positions Black music as a space of resistance and an archive in its own right. Students engage Black archive practices and explore their connection to Black intellectual history, considering how African diasporic lineages shape Black music as ancestral expression. The seminar asks: What is Black music’s function in the United States? How has it helped form the broader national narrative? Through close study of genres such as funk, Hip Hop, opera, jazz, and R&B, in connection with and artists and composers such as Duke Ellington, Beyonce, D’Angelo, and Betty Davis, students examine how Black musical forms carry cultural memory across generations. The course also interrogates how Black culture is displayed and curated in spaces not originally built for Blackness, challenging traditional frameworks of preservation and performance. Ultimately, the seminar invites students to understand black music not simply as sound, but as a intentional intellectual, cultural, and historical practice.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Sasha Doster
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History of Western Music: Classical Era
Hist of West Mus: Class-2
Topics in western music from the Classical Era to the 20th Century, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works. Pre-req: Music Theory II or permission of instructor.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sonja G Wermager
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Undergraduate Composition
This course provides an immersive experience in music composition, focusing on both practical and theoretical aspects within a given instrumentation. Please refer to the topic for the instrumentation for this semester’s course. This class is open to students with no prior experience in composition. Students of varying music backgrounds are welcome. Permission of the instructor may be required for enrollment. The class will explore a variety of compositional approaches, including traditional, experimental, and interdisciplinary methods. During the semester, students will complete several creative and theoretical exercises ranging from short composition projects to analytical responses to diverse works. Students will also engage in individual and group feedback sessions as well as in-class readings of selected compositional projects by the performers. The final project will be an original work between 5 and 7 minutes, which will be workshopped, rehearsed, performed in a public concert, and recorded by professional musicians towards the end of the term.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Suzanne Farrin
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MUSIC IN EAST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Laina Dawes
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MUSICS OF INDIA & WEST ASIA
A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations.
- MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Alessandra M Ciucci
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Instructor:
Ali Raj
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