Courses

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.

Practice in analysis and composition with various pitch organization techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries, including set theory, spectral music, just intonation, and topics from participants' interests. Reading sessions are arranged.

Emphasis is placed upon the individual student's original work and upon the study and discussion of pieces pertinent to that work.

In the past two decades, "sound studies" emerged as a major field of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities.

MUS510 is for students in the department who wish to gain experience of central importance to their area of study by working outside of the University capacity.

This course will examine a variety of manifestations of folk music in different cultures of the world, with a specific emphasis on examples from France and the U.S., and will study key moments of folk music revival from the nineteenth century to t

MUS 329 explores connections between composition and performance in group and solo contexts.

A composition workshop class, in the context of the traditional sound studio. Emphasis will be on the student's creative work, composing both "fixed media" works and live electronic/laptop music.

Examines the origins and development of rock music in the period 1950-1975. The principal focus is on the songs, styles, and artists of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.

This course will examine the musical, historical, and cultural aspects of jazz throughout its entire history, looking at the 20th century as the breeding ground for jazz in America and beyond.

Performance course in West African drumming with focus on music from Mandé Empire (Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Senegal.) Taught by master drummer and exponent of Mogo Kele Foli drumming technique.

From holiday costumes to dining hall menus to GIFs, from popular songs to films to operas, many forms of expression cross cultural borders, raising aesthetic and ethical questions.