Seminar

MUSI G9401 (Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology 1)
NEW FOR SPRING 2013

Archiving Practice
Call Number: 74384 Points: 3 
Instructor: Aaron A Fox (bio)

Tuesdays 2:10pm-4:00pm, 701C Dodge Hall

Topics, literature, and projects in audio archive management, repatriation, and intellectual property issues.  

MUSI G9402 (Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology)

Music, Affect, and Public Culture
Instructor: Ellen Gray (bio)
Call #: 28037, 3 pts 

Thursdays 12:10pm-2:00pm, 701C Dodge

Musical anthropology and ethnomusicology have tentatively begun to work with "affect" as a keyword for understanding how contemporary cultures of musical circulation and listening shape publics and mobilize sentiment. But what is "affect"? How does it differ from "emotion"? How might one go about ethnographi- cally studying affect when sound/music/aesthetics are the object of inquiry? This seminar places two con- temporary interdisciplinary "turns" in the social sciences and humanities (the "acoustic turn" and the "affective turn") in productive alignment. We track genealogies of the following keywords and terms through relevant theoretical and ethnographic literatures: "listening"; "voice"; "emotion"; "structures of feeling"; "affect"; "public feeling" and "publics" while thinking through the possibilities of "affect" for anthropologies of sound and music.

MUSI G8371 (New Seminar for Spring 2013)

Debussy and Modernism
Instructor: Prof. Benjamin Steege (bio) 
Call #: 26449, 3 pts

Mondays 10:10am-12:00pm, 620 Dodge

This course engages close analytical study of selected works by Claude Debussy in conjunction with re- flections on modernism and modernity from literary- and critical – theoretical perspectives. A primary goal is to develop interpretive approaches that take rigorous account of how Debussy might be understood as “modernist” in the first place, and what “modernism” might mean in this context – questions that have been surprisingly little addressed in extant literature on the composer. Readings include work of Charles Baude- laire, Walter Benjamin, Hugo Friedrich, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Matei Calinescu, Barbara Johnson, T. J. Clark, and Jonathan Crary. Presentation and paper.

MUSI W4626 (New Course for Spring 2013)

Musical Instrument in Electronic/Computer Music
Instructor: Jaime Oliver (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music) (bio)
Call #: 92448, 3 pts

Tuesdays, 11:10am-1:00pm, 320H Prentis

A central aspect of composing with computer media is designing the software system with which we will work; in other words, the composer, performer, and/or improviser is often responsible for designing and as- sembling his own instrument. Electronic and Computer music practices challenge our views of what a mu- sical instrument is and how it is expected to behave. Through the analysis of various documents by a wide range of musicians as diverse as Theremin, Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Mathews, Moore, Thenney, Risset, Buchla, Moog, Mumma, Martirano, Waisvisz, Rowe, and Puckette amongst others, we will attempt to un- derstand what new conceptions of musical instrument may have emerged with electric and digital media, and explore software implementations of some of their designs towards a final paper or computer system.

MUSI W4442/RUSSIAN 84442 (New Course for Spring 2013)

Musical Exoticisms of the Former Soviet Union 
Instructor: Maria Sonevytsky (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute)
Call #: 23331, 3 pts,

Thursdays, 10:10am-12:00pm, 701A Dodge

In this course, we explore musical discourses of “civilization” and “barbarism” with a focus on examples from Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia. The historical scope of the class includes key moments since the 18th century through the present day. Topics will include music of the “Gypsies,” Klezmer and Yiddish songs, music of the Carpathian Mountains, Crimean Tatars, Uzbeks, Siberian shamans, renowned Soviet composers, Eurovisions contestants, and Post-Soviet African-Ukrainiam hip-hop artists.

Fall 2012 Music G6333
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Section 001 Call Number: 19806 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Joseph P Dubiel  (bio)

Introductory graduate seminar in music theory.  Required of all graduate students in Music Theory and fulfils second proseminar requirement for music PhD students in other areas.
 

Enrollment by permission of instructor only.

Fall 2012 Music G6302
INTRODUCTION TO SET THEORY
Section 001 Call Number: 21773 Points: 3
Day/Time: R 10:10am-12:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Joseph  Dubiel (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G6300
HISTORY OF MUSIC THEORY FROM RAMEAU TO RIEMANN
Call Number: 28991 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 10:10am-12:00pm  [NB: change of time]
Location: 620 Dodge
Instructor: Prof. Benjamin Steege (bio)

Survey of European music-theoretical perspectives from roughly 1720 to 1920.  This period witnessed the consolidation of the field of “modern” theory that continues to inform contemporary discourse.  In addition to tracing the emergence of novel theoretical topics—from “form” to “function”—we will address the relation of music theory to the new or modernizing fields it productively interacted with: physics, aesthetics, historiography, hermeneutics, physiology, psychology, and so on.  Texts will be read in connection with the analysis and interpretation of relevant musical repertories.

Readings are drawn from translation, but knowledge of French and/or German is very useful.  Presentations and final paper.

Fall 2012 Music G9403
ADVANCED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SEMINAR: POPULAR MUSIC AESTHETICS
Call Number: 66547 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Kevin Fellezs (bio)

Click here to view the description and syllabus for this course.  (PDF)

Fall 2012 Music G9401
ADVANCED SEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I: CARIBBEAN NEW YORK
Call Number: 76972 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 9:00am-10:50am
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Christopher Washburne (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G8109
SEMINAR in HISTORCAL MUSICOLOGY: ROMANTIC PERIOD
Section 001 Call Number: 14923 Points: 3
Day/Time: W 2:10pm-4:10pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Walter M Frisch (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G6427
MUSIC, MYTH, AND INDIGENEITY
Call Number: 27797 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Ana Maria Ochoa (bio)

Fall 2012 Music G6412
PROSEMINAR in ETHNOMUSICOLOGY II: Contemporary Ethnography
Section 001  Call Number: 28211 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Aaron A Fox (bio)

A survey of landmark works of musical/sonic ethnography. Permission of instructor required. Priority given to graduate students in Music.

Fall 2012 Music G6105
PROSEMINAR in HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY
Section 001 Call Number: 76924 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Karen Henson (bio)

Introduction to historical musicology; the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems. Priority given to graduate students in Music. Permission of instructor required.

Fall 2012 Music W4430
LISTENING AND SOUND IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Section 001 Call Number: 13346 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 1:10pm-2:25pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa (bio)

The objective of this course is to explore the relationship between listening, sound and music across different cultures and in different historical moments and contexts. This will be explored through recent histories of listening, through anthropological work on hearing and sound in different cultures and through the field of acoustic ecology. The course will seek to compare these three scholarly perspectives and their contributions to a historical and contextual understanding of listening practices.

Meets Global Core Requirements.  Meets CSER major requirements.