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First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• MUSIC 1701 - FWS: Sound, Sense and Ideas

Music Theory:

• MUSIC 1100 - Elements of Musical Notation
• MUSIC 1101 - Elements of Music
• MUSIC 1105 - Building Musical Skills
• MUSIC 1106 - Introduction to Western Music Theory
• MUSIC 1466 - Physics of Musical Sound (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2101 - Theory, Materials and Techniques I
• MUSIC 2102 - Theory, Materials and Techniques II
• MUSIC 2111 - Songwriting
• MUSIC 2112 - Collaborative Songwriting
• MUSIC 2120 - [The Art of Conducting]
• MUSIC 2380 - [Performing Hip Hop] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3111 - Jazz Improvisation and Theory I
• MUSIC 3112 - [Jazz Improvisation and Theory II]
• MUSIC 3115 - [Jazz Piano]
• MUSIC 3121 - [Choral Conducting]
• MUSIC 3122 - Conducting
• MUSIC 3152 - [Sound Stories: Field Recording in Theory and Practice]
• MUSIC 4121 - Advanced Conducting
• MUSIC 4340 - [Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 4341 - [Writing Musical Ethnography]

Music in History and Culture:

• MUSIC 1205 - Introduction to Western Art Music
• MUSIC 1212 - Music on the Brain (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1213 - Music on the Brain Field Study– Whale Conservation: Marine Stewardship in Cape Cod Bay
• MUSIC 1312 - History of Rock Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1313 - [A Survey of Jazz] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1320 - [Music of Latin America] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1321 - [Music of Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1330 - [African Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1343 - Musics in Asia
• MUSIC 2006 - [Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2221 - [Bach and Handel]
• MUSIC 2241 - Music as Drama: An Introduction to Opera (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2244 - The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2260 - Music of the 1960’s (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2290 - You Have Terrible Taste in Music
• MUSIC 2311 - [The Art and Craft of Music Journalism]
• MUSIC 2320 - [Latino Music in the US] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2330 - Music in and of East Asia (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2340 - [The Beatles] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2341 - Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2350 - [Music of the African Diaspora] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2370 - Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It’s Going (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2380 - [Performing Hip Hop] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2642 - [The Art of Math: Mathematical Traditions of Symmetry and Harmony] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2701 - Music and Digital Gameplay (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3205 - [Cultural Studies of Music]
• MUSIC 3242 - Dealing with the Devil: Music’s Faustian Bargain with Literature (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3302 - [Rhythm and Blues to Funk: Black Popular Music Before Hip Hop]
• MUSIC 3480 - [Brazilian Culture through its Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3490 - [Hip Hop in Global Perspective]
• MUSIC 4233 - [Musical Touch]
• MUSIC 4270 - [Minimalism]
• MUSIC 4312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4345 - [Sound, Silence, and the Sacred] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4454 - [Writing on Tape in the 1970s] (crosslisted)

Music History Courses for Majors and Qualified Nonmajors:

• MUSIC 2201 - Introduction to Music Studies
• MUSIC 2207 - [History of Western Music I]
• MUSIC 2208 - [History of Western Music II]
• MUSIC 2260 - Music of the 1960’s (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3212 - Seminar in Music Research
• MUSIC 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• MUSIC 4181 - Psychology of Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4345 - [Sound, Silence, and the Sacred] (crosslisted)

Music Composition:

• MUSIC 1421 - Introduction to Computer Music
• MUSIC 1465 - Computing in the Arts (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2421 - [Computers in Music Performance]
• MUSIC 2440 - [Shaping Sound I: An introduction to Experimentation in Sound and Composition]
• MUSIC 2441 - [Shaping Sound II]
• MUSIC 3140 - Instrumentation for Composers
• MUSIC 3141 - The Composer’s Toolbox I
• MUSIC 3142 - [The Composer’s Toolbox II]
• MUSIC 3182 - Making Noise: The Art and Process of Sound Generation (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3431 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3511 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3512 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3513 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3514 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 4112 - [Composition]
• MUSIC 4410 - Bending Instruments
• MUSIC 4440 - [FutureSounds]
• MUSIC 4501 - Individual Instruction

Independent Study and Honors:

• MUSIC 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• MUSIC 3902 - Choral Musicianship
• MUSIC 4901 - Independent Study in Music
• MUSIC 4911 - Honors in Music
• MUSIC 4912 - Honors in Music

Musical Instruction:

• MUSIC 3511 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3512 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3513 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3514 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 4501 - Individual Instruction

Musical Organizations and Ensembles:

• MUSIC 3602 - Chorus
• MUSIC 3603 - Glee Club
• MUSIC 3604 - Chorale
• MUSIC 3609 - Brazilian Ensemble - Deixa Sambar (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3610 - Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
• MUSIC 3613 - Cornell Steel Band (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3615 - Jazz Repertory Ensemble
• MUSIC 3616 - Cornell Hip-Hop Collective (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3621 - Cornell Symphony Orchestra
• MUSIC 3631 - Cornell Wind Symphony
• MUSIC 3634 - Cornell Percussion Group
• MUSIC 3660 - Music Improvisation Ensemble
• MUSIC 3701 - Performing Chamber Music
• MUSIC 4601 - [Chamber Singers]
• MUSIC 4615 - Jazz Ensemble
• MUSIC 4616 - Jazz Combos
• MUSIC 4621 - Cornell Chamber Orchestra
• MUSIC 4631 - Chamber Flute Ensemble
• MUSIC 4633 - Early-Music Lab
• MUSIC 4641 - Advanced Instruction in Gamelan
• MUSIC 4651 - Chamber Music Ensemble

Graduate Courses:

Open to qualified undergraduates by permission of instructor.

• MUSIC 6201 - Research and Critical Methodologies
• MUSIC 6233 - Music and Touch
• MUSIC 6270 - [Minimalism]
• MUSIC 6312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6340 - [Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 6341 - [Writing Musical Ethnography]
• MUSIC 6400 - Thinking Media Studies (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6410 - Bending Instruments
• MUSIC 6420 - [Electroacoustic Techniques]
• MUSIC 6421 - [Electroacoustic Composition]
• MUSIC 6440 - [FutureSounds]
• MUSIC 7111 - Composition
• MUSIC 7120 - Orchestration: Approaches to Large Ensemble Music in the 20th and 21st centuries
• MUSIC 7204 - [Seminar in Eighteenth Century Music]
• MUSIC 7205 - Seminar in Nineteenth Century Music
• MUSIC 7211 - [Seminar in Performance Practice]
• MUSIC 7222 - [Haydn and Sonata Form]
• MUSIC 7306 - [Charles Burney’s Musical Travels]
• MUSIC 7315 - [Music in Urban Africa] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7321 - [Politics, Utopias, and Noise in the Sound Archive]
• MUSIC 7323 - [History of Sound Art]
• MUSIC 7324 - Postmusic
• MUSIC 7332 - [Jazz and the Long Sixties]
• MUSIC 7333 - Jazz, Fusions, Discourses: New Jazz Studies and “Broken Middle” Interdisciplinarity
• MUSIC 7334 - [Issues in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 7345 - [Latin American Music Historiography and Sources]
• MUSIC 7411 - [Rethinking the Sound Sculpture]
• MUSIC 7420 - [Composing Networks]
• MUSIC 7430 - [Rethinking the Instrument]
• MUSIC 7422 - [idEars- ideas for ears]
• MUSIC 7501 - [Historical Performance Practice]
• MUSIC 7901 - Independent Study in Music