Courses

CURRENT COURSES | PREVIOUSLY OFFERED | BULLETIN DESCRIPTIONS

Graduate Courses in Music History and in Musicology

Every semester we offer:

M525 Opera Survey
M527 Symphonic Literature

Each fall we offer:

M651 Medieval (every second year)
M653 Baroque
M655 Romantic
M657 Music since 1960
M539 Introduction to Music Bibliography
M551 Introduction to Historical Musicology

Each spring we offer:

M650 Music in the US
M652 Renaissance
M654 Classic
M656 Modern Music

Current Variable Course Offerings (Fall 2024):

Composers:

M502 (35503): Wagner Beyond the Ring Phil Ford
M502 (7050): TBD TBD

Topics in Music Literature:

M510 (6365): Film Music Kirby Haugland
M510 (8113): Jazz Around the World Sergio Ospina Romero
M510 (35502): Popular Music as History Book Sergio Ospina Romero
M510 (36887): New Approaches to 17th Century French Drama Alison Calhoun
M510 (36889): Music and Meaning Jacquelyn Sholes
M510 (7323): Music in and About Spain Christine Wisch (Online)

M602 Doctoral Seminars in Musicology:

M602 (2507): Monteverdi Massimo Ossi
M602 (9651): Sound, Image, Opera Ayana Smith

For times, location, and other information see here.

Previously Offered Variable Topic Courses

Undergraduate:
M410 20th-Century Russian And Soviet Music (Domico)
M410 18th-Century Global Music Encounters (Nelson)
M410 Schoenberg and Modernism (Bane)
M410 Italian Opera 1600-1900 (Zanovello)
M410 Beethoven (Muxfeldt)
M410 Benjamin Britten (Dwinell)
M410 #Latergrams (Zanovello)
M410 Music and Technology in the 19th Century (Leone)
M410 Music in Judaism (Cohen)
M410 Sacred Works 15th-21st Century (Ables)
M410 Writing About Music (Melamed)
M410 Film Music (Lake)
M410 Beethoven String Quartets (Burkholder)
M410 Expression in Haydn and Mozart (Frymoyer)
M410 Stravinsky (Frymoyer)
M410 Schubert (Muxfeldt)
M410 Women in Music (Smith)
M410 Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (White)
M410 Masses of Josquin Des Prez (Zanovello)
M410 American Popular Song on Film (Ford)
M410 Charles Ives (Burkholder)

Graduate:
M502 Chopin Rediscovered (Goldberg)
M502 Mozart Operas (Melamed)
M502 Heinrich Isaac (Zanovello)
M502 Bach: Major Vocal Works (Melamed)
M502 Handel’s World (Smith)
M502 The Masses of Josquin Desprez (Zanovello)
M502 Schoenberg and Modernism (Bane)
M502 Ives (Burkholder)
M502 Bernstein (Cohen)
M502 JS Bach Major Vocal Works (Melamed)
M502 Cantatas of JS Bach (Melamed)
M502 Telemann (Melamed)
M502 Wagner (Ford)
M502 Mahler (Freeze)
M502 Masses of Josquin Des Prez (Zanovello)
M502 Lully and the French Baroque (Smith)
M502 Bartok (Hooker)
M502 Robert and Clara Schumann (Altstatt)
M510 Women in Music (Smith)
M510 Film Music (Haugland)
M510 Music and Identity in Latin America (León)
M510 Music & Drink (Nelson)
M510 Latin American Colonial Music (Borg)
M510 Genderless Music (Smith)
M510 Music & Drink (Nelson)
M510 Music and Mourning (Rogers)
M510 Historicism in English Music (Nelson)
M510 African American Music (Smith)
M510 Music in the Mediterranean (Ossi)
M510 Music and Nationalism in Latin America (Borg)
M510 Opera after 1900 (Dwinell)
M510 Music and Trauma (Rogers)
M510 Benjamin Britten (Dwinell)
M510 Film Music (Bishop)
M510 Monteverdi’s Secular Music (Ossi)
M510 Music at Italian Cities and Courts (Ossi)
M510 Writing About Music (Melamed)
M510 The Leonore Operas (Muxfeldt)
M510 Early Opera to 1650 (Ossi)
M510 Women & Music (Smith)
M510 Cultures of Improvisation (Ford)
M510 Sacred Works 15th-21st Century (Ables)
M510 Baroque Song (Bane)
M510 The Italian Madrigal (Ossi)
M510 Music & Book History to 1500 (Di Bacco)
M510 Chorale Settings 1500-1750 (Melamed)
M510 Film Music History (Long)
M510 Operas & Plays (Muxfeldt)
M510 Music & Nationalism in Latin America (Borg)
M510 Music in Venice 1500-1750 (Ossi)
M510 Performers and Performances (Smith)
M510 The Concerto (Bane)
M510 Vincenzo Galilei & the Florentine Camerata (Ossi)
M510 Examining Operetta (Hooker)
M510 Russian Opera (Goldberg)
M510 Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (White)
M510 20th-Century Polish Music (Goldberg)
M510 Writing about Music (Melamed)

Masters Seminars in Musicology:
M601 Beethoven (Muxfeldt)
M601 Attribution and Authenticity (Melamed)
M601 Style, Meaning, Form (Burkholder)
M601 Music and Place (Zanovello)

Doctoral Seminars in Musicology:
M602 Music in Early-Modern Cities (Zanovello)
M602 Weird Studies (Ford)
M602 Die Zauberflöte (Melamed)
M602 Shadow Histories: Race and Gender (Smith)
M602 Who Was Beethoven? (Muxfeldt)
M602 Mediterranean Musical Encounters (Ossi)
M602 Approaches to Musical Theater (Cohen)
M602 The Season of Figaro (Melamed)
M602: Instrumental Mimesis 1580-1720 (Ossi)
M602 Music in Esoteric Studies (Ford)
M602 Music & Politics in the Other Europe (Goldberg)
M602 Musical Borrowing & Reworking (Burkholder)
M602 J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor (Melamed)
M602 Music Collectorship (Zanovello)
M602 Technologies of Experience (Ford)
M602 Music in 19th-Century Albums (Goldberg)
M602 J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Melamed)
M602 Schubert Songs (Muxfeldt)
M602 Music and Space (Zanovello)
M602 Sound, Music, & Counterculture (Ford)
M602 Operatic Typologies (Smith)
M602 Humanism in Music (Ossi)

Doctoral Methods of Musical Scholarship:
M603 Inclusive Music Histories (Cohen)
M603 Selling Your Scholarship (Rogers)
M603 Digital humanities (Di Bacco)
M603 Collectorship (Zanovello)
M603 Baroque Opera: Text, Image, Stage, Music (Smith)
M603 Intensive Writing (Ford)
M603 Codicology and MS Description (Zanovello)
M603 German Translation (Muxfeldt)
M603 Pedagogy of Music History (Goldberg)
M603 Film Musicology (Long)
M603 Historiography of Music (Ossi)
M603 Opera and Criticism (Smith)
M603 Italian Translation (Zanovello)

Bulletin Course Descriptions

For more detailed information see here.

MUS M400 – Undergraduate Readings in Musicology

MUS M401 – History and Literature of Music I
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.

MUS M402 – History and Literature of Music II
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.

MUS M410 – Composer or Genre
Life and works of representative composers in historical context or survey of a major musical genre and its historical evolution. Emphasis on stylistic development in the music literature studied.

MUS M501 – Proseminar in Music History and Literature
An introduction to the graduate study of music history and literature. Meets the proficiency requirement with a grade of C or higher.

MUS M502 – Composers: Variable Topics
Life and works of representative composers in the cultural and historical context of their eras; emphasis on the development of individual style through analysis of characteristic works. May be repeated for different composers.

MUS M510 – Topics in Music Literature
Inquiry into selected aspects of music literature and history related to specific repertories, genres, styles, performance practices/traditions, historiography, or criticism. Research project required. May be repeated for different topics.

MUS M525 – Survey of Operatic Literature
Emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

MUS M527 – Symphonic Literature
Orchestral music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

MUS M528 – Chamber Music Literature
Emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

MUS M539 – Introduction to Music Bibliography
Music reference and research tools in all areas of music, use of library resources and networks, and bibliographic style and technique. Formal paper required.

MUS M551 – Introduction to Historical Musicology
Survey of bibliography and problems and methods of historical research.

MUS M556 – Research in the History and Literature of Music
For advanced students in music literature or musicology desiring to do research in non-course areas of music literature.

MUS M601 – Masters Seminar in Musicology: Variable Topics
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.

MUS M602 – Seminar in Musicology: Variable Topics
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward PhD.

MUS M603 – Methods of Musical Scholarship: Variable Topics
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. May be taken more than once for credit toward the PhD.

MUS M604 – Qualifying Exam Tutorial
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).

MUS M605 – Qualifying Exam and Dissertation Area Tutorial
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).

MUS M650 – Music in the United States
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.

MUS M651 – Medieval Music

MUS M652 – Renaissance Music

MUS M501 – Proseminar in Music History and Literature

MUS M653 – Baroque Music

MUS M654 – Classic Music

MUS M655 – Romantic Music

MUS M656 – Modern Music

MUS M657 – Music Since 1960

MUS M698 – Individual Seminar in Musicology
For advanced students in musicology and music theory. Formal research paper required. May be taken more than once for credit toward the PhD.

MUS M700 – Dissertation in Musicology
This course is eligible for deferred (R) grading.