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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 1199 - Elements of Studio Production and Recording
• MUSIC 1466 - Physics of Musical Sound (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2101 - Tonal Structure and Design in Classical, Jazz, and Popular Music I
• MUSIC 2102 - Tonal Structure and Design in Classical, Jazz, and Popular Music II
• MUSIC 2111 - Songwriting
• MUSIC 2112 - Collaborative Songwriting
• MUSIC 2380 - Performing Hip Hop (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3111 - Jazz Improvisation and Theory I
• MUSIC 3112 - [Jazz Improvisation and Theory II]
• MUSIC 3122 - The Art of Conducting
• MUSIC 4121 - Advanced Conducting
• MUSIC 4124 - Jazz Arranging and Orchestration

Music in History and Culture:

• MUSIC 1205 - Introduction to Western Art Music
• MUSIC 1212 - Music on the Brain (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1213 - Spring Break: Marine Stewardship and Creative Collaboration
• MUSIC 1312 - History of Rock Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1330 - [African Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1343 - Musics in Asia
• MUSIC 2006 - Punk Culture: The Art and Politics of Refusal (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2130 - Collaborative Creativity
• MUSIC 2221 - [Bach and Handel]
• MUSIC 2244 - The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2290 - [You Have Terrible Taste in Music]
• MUSIC 2311 - The Art and Craft of Music Journalism
• MUSIC 2321 - Groove: Black Music Theory
• MUSIC 2330 - Music in and of East Asia (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2340 - [The Beatles] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2341 - Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2361 - Arranging Nationhood–Reclaiming Identity: Caribbean Folk Albums in the USA (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2370 - Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It’s Going (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2372 - Songs of the Summer: Social Histories of U.S. Popular Music (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 3251 - Music and Madness
• MUSIC 3313 - Pianos, Nations, and Empires
• MUSIC 3316 - What’s in a Sound? Gender and Race in Sound Cultures (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3322 - Gospel and The Blues: A Black Women’s History I, 1900-1973 (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3370 - Listening for Blackness: Sound, Noise, Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3490 - [Hip Hop in Global Perspective]
• MUSIC 4233 - [Music and Touch] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4241 - Historical Keyboarding
• MUSIC 4270 - [Minimalism]
• MUSIC 4313 - Music and Sound Studies
• MUSIC 4340 - [Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 4341 - [Writing Musical Ethnography]
• MUSIC 4345 - [Sound, Silence, and the Sacred] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4412 - Making Sound Futures
• 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 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• 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 3431 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4112 - [Composition]
• MUSIC 4410 - [Bending Instruments]
• MUSIC 4421 - Technology in Music Performance (crosslisted)

Independent Study and Honors:

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

Musical Instruction:

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

Musical 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 3902 - Choral Musicianship
• MUSIC 4615 - Jazz Ensemble
• MUSIC 4616 - Jazz Combo
• MUSIC 4621 - Cornell Chamber Orchestra
• MUSIC 4631 - Chamber Flute Ensemble
• MUSIC 4641 - Advanced Instruction in Gamelan
• MUSIC 4651 - Chamber Music Ensemble
• MUSIC 6239 - Global Currents: Immobility and Multi-Sited Ethnography (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6241 - Historical Keyboarding
• MUSIC 7362 - Musical Value: Histories of Aesthetics

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 6313 - Music and Sound Studies
• 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 6422 - Technology in Music Performance (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6819 - Urban Justice Lab (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7104 - History of Music Theory: Global Approaches and Perspectives
• MUSIC 7111 - Composition
• MUSIC 7204 - [Seminar in Eighteenth Century Music]
• MUSIC 7213 - [History of Sound] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7308 - Sounding the Apocalypse: Ecomusicology from the Enlightenment to the Anthropocene
• MUSIC 7314 - (Black-Queer-Feminist) Ethics of Listening
• MUSIC 7334 - [Issues in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 7411 - [Rethinking the Sound Sculpture]
• MUSIC 7420 - [Composing Networks]
• MUSIC 7422 - [idEars- ideas for ears]
• MUSIC 7430 - [Rethinking the Instrument]
• MUSIC 7443 - A New Fable: Engaging the World Through Music
• MUSIC 7501 - Historical Performance Practice
• MUSIC 7901 - Independent Study in Music