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  • History of Western Choral Music

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • A survey of vocal literature (excluding opera) from the fifteenth century to the present day. Lectures focus on representative works that illustrate historical developments in musical style, vocal texture, and text-music relationships; attention is also given to choral music's role as an institution of social engagement, an expression of collective identity, and the societal ability to rejoice, celebrate, critique, and mourn on an impersonal level.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Jamie Greenberg Reuland

  • Capacity Remaining: 0

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/4/2025 

  • Times: 12:15 PM - 1:05 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: Tu Th

  • Building: WOOLC

  • Room: Woolworth Music Center 106

 

  • Introduction to Music for Film and the Moving Image

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • We will consider the art of music for the moving image. We will look at historic examples, scoring styles and techniques, and the choices that directors and composers make. We will begin by looking at the basic elements of film and music. Then we will consider the role of genre and style, focusing especially on early Hollywood and Russian filmmakers. Finally, we will look at a range of modern scoring techniques.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Andrew Lovett

  • Capacity Remaining: 1

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/4/2025 

  • Times: 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: Tu Th

  • Building: WOOLC

  • Room: Woolworth Music Center 106

 

  • Music of the Romantic Era

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • A survey of major styles, genres, and modes of performance in European art music from about 1814 to the 1890s, ranging from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff and including opera, ballet, the symphony, concerto, and song.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Simon Morrison

  • Capacity Remaining: -1

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/4/2025 

  • Times: 2:25 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: Tu Th

  • Building: WOOLC

  • Room: Woolworth Music Center 106

 

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