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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A seminar focusing on the relationship (symbiotic or otherwise) between artistic creation and intellectual inquiry in compositional practice. Course will deal with practical concerns by sharing works in progress, recent works, and by hosting performers who are currently collaborating with members of the seminar. Although all composition graduate students are welcome, the seminar is especially geared toward first-and second-year students in composition.
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A study of the characteristics of individual instruments, including extended contemporary techniques and writing arrangements for chamber ensemble and for orchestra. Special attention is given to problems of combining voice and instruments. The arrangements written for this class are performed by the Composers' Ensemble at Princeton and the Princeton University Orchestra, and problems of performance involving notation, rehearsal, and conducting are dealt with.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seminar considers the intersection of composition, performance and spectatorship from a wide range of viewpoints, ranging from theoretical notions of identity as a form of performance to the more nuts-and-bolts concerns of composer/performers. Course explores works that foreground the artificiality of performance (Judith Weir's operas), that emphasize the presence of the composer (Meredith Monk's performances); and that dismantle the narcissism of the stage (Yvonne' Rainer's pedestrian choreography), as well as others, including our own.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A seminar devoted to such topics as theoretical models, analytical procedures, and the relationship of each to theories of composition and performance.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A broad background that could help you understand why the Middle East and the United States are increasingly at odds with each other. We reach back into the Middle Eastern past--the rise of Islam, the Caliphate, the coming of the Turks, the European expansion, the discovery if oil--and use these developments to explain the unsettled political, social, economic, and religious landscape of the region today. Thus we will set ourselves to explain why Turkey is a secular republic whereas Iran is an Islamic one, why so many Arab governments confront threats from violent religious radicals, and what role oil plays in all this.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course offers an introductory overview of the history of modern Turkey, starting with the early republican period and looking into Turkey's domestic political dynamics through the republican period, including the most recent developments in Turkish domestic politics.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The 20th-century Middle East is more than the sum total of politics, wars, and ideologies. This class examines social changes: the development of groups like workers, peasants, and the upper and middle classes, and social dimensions of large-scale processes such as urbanization, oil production, war-preparation, (post-1970) economic liberalization, and ideologies like nationalism and political Islam. Also, analyzing the primary sources and lines of argument of the texts we read, this class is as much an exercise in critical historical thinking as an introduction to the Middle East.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history and culture of the Jews in the Middle Ages (under Islam and Christendom) covering, comparatively, such topics as the relationship between Judaism and the other two religions, interreligious polemics, political (legal) status, economic role, communal self-government, and cultural developments.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A broad-ranging introduction to pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Islam in light of how Muslims have approached their foundational religious text, the Qur'an. Topics include: Muhammad and the emergence of Islam; theology, law and ethics; war and peace; mysticism; women and gender; and modern debates on Islamic reform. We shall examine the varied contexts in which Muslims have interpreted their sacred text, their agreements and disagreements on what it means and, more broadly, their often competing understandings of Islam and of what it is to be a Muslim.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Begins with the formation of the traditional Islamic world in the seventh century and ends with the first signs of its transformation under Western impact in the 18th century. The core of the course is the history of state formation in the Middle East, but other regions and themes make significant appearances. The course can stand on its own or serve as background to the study of the modern Islamic world.
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