Courses

In this course, you will be asked to develop your own voice in sound as an art material.

Musical instruments reside at the intersection of varied topics: sound, perception, embodiment, music theory, social values, and more; how has their design influenced the development of music and how might they be reinvented to spur new ideas?

This course will examine transformations between visuals, sound, structure, and movement. This course explores the notion of generative art, and investigates the parallels between design processes in engineering and the arts.

What would artistic experience free of gender bias look like? Can we even imagine it? The charged word "misogyny" invites us to begin by scrutinizing gender-based antipathy in artistic experience.

Collaborations with varied ensembles and performers from around the world and here at Princeton, presented in concert on the Princeton Sound Kitchen concert series.

"What if?" tries to understand complex musical surfaces using transcription and transformation. We start by looking at examples from Hans Abrahamsen, Unsuk Chin, Gerard Grisey, Kaija Saariaho and Claude Vivier.

Focus on select Renaissance music texts, both manuscript and print, for evidence of how authors borrowed structures, formats, images and other materials while interacting with models and inserting elements that reflected innovations.

Over the course of his lengthy career, Giuseppe Verdi composed three operas based on plays by William Shakespeare.

This course examines the role of sound and listening in the constitution of culture. Classes will be evenly split between historical and theoretical analysis, on the one hand, and practice-based explorations of sound, on the other.

Songs and Songwriting will offer undergraduates the opportunity to study songs and songcraft in an intense, supportive small-group workshop. Songs are mysterious musical forms.

In this class we will consider a variety of strategies for combining improvisation and notated music, drawing on both contemporary concert music and jazz.