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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Fall American popular music and its recording techniques (to 1950): ragtime, gospel, blues, vaudeville, New Orleans brass band, swing, Tin Pan Alley, bebop, early rhythm and blues. Analysis and performance. Open to nonmajors. Prerequisite: Two years as a music major, or permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Spring A continuation of MTH 4120. Cool, mainstream, progressive/free jazz, rhythm and blues, countrywestern, Broadway, rock ’n’ roll, reggae, soul and Motown,fusion, disco, punk, metal, and hip-hop. Analysis and performance.
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2.00 Credits
and 4220 2 credits ( per semester). I: Fall; II: Spring A chronological survey of major operas and opera composers from the early 1600s to the present. Participants learn and present excerpts from each major historical period, and write critical analyses of live performances and recordings.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Fall Develops skills in music research and writing through guided assignments (e.g., a research paper, a concert review, liner and program notes, grant proposals, and “pitch letter” to a potential sponsor or concert presenter). Prerequisite: Excellent proficiency in written English
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Fall A review of species counterpoint. Exploration of canon, fugue, chorale prelude, and variations. Emphasis is on the music of Bach, especially his Well-Tempered Clavier, and on composers just before Bach. Regular written assignments.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Fall Analysis of the structure and design of melody, tendency tones, rhythmic stress; relationship of melody to harmony; serialism; tension, rhythmic units; techniques of minimalism. From Gregorian chant to Nixon in China.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Every semester M.M. students selected for the Graduate Honors Program in Music prepare five to seven lectures and/or lecture-demonstrations under the direct supervision of the director of graduate studies. Most of these are presented in undergraduate musicology courses at Purchase. One lecture-demonstration is presented in a semiannual Honors Program show to an audience of faculty, staff, students, and community members. Serves in lieu of one MTH course in the M.M. curriculum. Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Fall Reviews the main issues involved in the attempt to perf o rm music of the past 500 years in ways that acknowledge the historical realities of the works’ periods of origin. Attention is paid to instruments, textual interpretation, contemporary writings, and perf o rming approaches and conditions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Fall Intensive study of impressionist and expressionist techniques, plus serialism and pandiatonicism. Excerpts from Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Stockhausen, Crumb, Penderecki, and Reich. Prerequisite: MTH 4010 or MCO 3020 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
2 credits. Fall An exploration of individual topics: ragtime, gospel, blues, vaudeville, New Orleans brass band, swing, Tin Pan Alley, bebop, early rhythm and blues. Individual lecture/ demonstration for undergraduates required.
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