Please check the Schedule of Classes for course offerings each semester and consult individual course entries in this schedule for information on course prerequisites and corequisites.
History of music from beginnings of Western civilization to 1800. Style analysis, visual and aural, of representative compositions, and relationship of music to sociocultural background of each epoch.
History of music from 1800 to the present. Style analysis, visual and aural, of representative compositions, and relationship of music to sociocultural background of each epoch.
Aspects of music history, literature, and context related to specific repertories, genres, styles, analysis of characteristic works, performance practices/traditions, historiography, or criticism. May be repeated for different composers or topics.
An introduction to the graduate study of music history and literature. Meets the proficiency requirement with a grade of C or higher.
Life and works of representative composers in the cultural and historical context of their eras; emphasis on individual style through analysis of characteristic works. May be repeated for different composers.
Aspects of music history, literature, and context related to specific repertories, genres, styles, analysis of characteristic works, performance practices/traditions, historiography, or criticism. May be repeated for different topics.
Emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Orchestral music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Music reference and research tools in all areas of music, use of library resources and networks, and bibliographic style and technique. Formal paper required.
Survey of bibliography and problems and methods of historical research.
For advanced students in music literature or musicology desiring to do research in non-course areas of music literature.
For MA Musicology students. Formal research paper required. Taken ordinarily in the spring semester of the first year. May be taken more than once for credit toward MA.
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward PhD.
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. May be taken more than once for credit toward the PhD.
Establishing of qualifying examination areas, the compiling of reading and repertory lists, and the first stages of examination study under faculty supervision. Ordinarily taken in the fall of the third year (for students admitted with an MA) or in the spring of the third year (for students admitted from a bachelor’s degree).
Intensive study under faculty supervision, and written and oral qualifying examinations. Ordinarily taken in the spring of the third year (for students admitted with an MA) or in the fall of the fourth year (for students admitted from a bachelor’s degree).
A musical and cultural history emphasizing the coexistence and intersections of a variety of imported and indigenous written and oral traditions, including concert music, opera, Native American music, popular song, jazz, blues, musical theater and film, Tin Pan Alley, rock, and spirituals and other religious idioms.
P: M501 Proseminar in Music History and Literature and T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students, or equivalents.
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward the PhD.
This course is eligible for deferred (R) grading.
