Music

MUSI UN1002 FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Corequisites: Introductory Ear-Training (V1312, or higher, as determined by placement exam).
Introduction to music, including notation, written and aural skills, and basic conceptual resources of music theory. Exploration of scale, mode, rhythm, meter, texture and form, with reference to a diverse range of musics

HUMA UN1123 MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present

MUSI UN1312 INTRODUCTORY EAR-TRAINING. 1.00 point.

This course is an introduction to basic skills in sight reading. Instruction includes reading rhythms in simple meter, solfege recitation, and sight-singing simple melodies

MPP UN1511 COLLEGIUM MUSICUM. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
Collegium Musicum is a performing group dedicated primarily to the study and performance of early music, broadly defined

MPP UN1521 UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA I. 2.00 points.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on the MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu or on the CUO website: http://cuo.music.columbia.edu/
Founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, the Columbia University Orchestra is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. The principal mission of the Orchestra is to expose talented student musicians to the highest level of orchestral repertoire. An audition is required

MPP UN1531 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various classical ensembles and study with some of the most renowned chamber musicians in New York City. An audition is required

MUSI UN2010 ROCK. 3.00 points.

How did Elvis become the “King of Rock’n’Roll” instead of, for example, Chuck Berry? Who are LaVern Baker, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Etta James and what do they have to do with rock and roll? Why and how did “rock and roll” become “rock”? What are the relationships among rock, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk? What do classical music composers such as J.S. Bach, Modest Mussorgsky, and Philip Glass have to do with rock? How many times has rock “died”? What is rock music’s relevance both historically and today? This course will introduce you to popular music studies, a field of inquiry that draws scholars from a number of different disciplines, including musicology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and literature. Examining rock music in an interdisciplinary way has opened the genre to increasing attention beyond musicological methodologies and assumptions. First, however, we must ask some fundamental questions: for instance, what, exactly, is popular music as well as, importantly, what differentiates rock music from other genres? Our definitions will reveal some of the assumptions we bring to any discussion of popular music. Throughout this semester, we will question our assumptions about rock music culture through an investigation into a series of keywords. Each keyword will focus our attention on various aspects of rock music in order to think through the complexities of what might, on the surface, seem self-evident. Terms such as “genre” or “the everyday” will be examined to help us gain critical analytical tools with which to assess various rock music productions, artists, and processes

MUSI UN2020 SALSA, SOCA ＆ REGGAE. 3.00 points.

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

A survey of the major syncretic urban popular music styles of the Caribbean, exploring their origins, development, and sociocultural context.

MUSI UN2021 MUSIC IN CONTEMP NATIVE AMER. 3.00 points.

Music in Contemporary Native America is a historical, ethnographic, and topical examination of contemporary Native American musical practices and ideologies. The course emphasizes popular, vernacular, and mass mediated musics, and calls into question the simple distinction between traditional and modern aspects of Native American cultures. Our readings and class guests (several of whom will be Native American scholars) emphasize the importance of understanding Native 2 American perspectives on these topics. Three short papers and one substantial final project are required. Approximately 100-150 pages of reading per week

MUSI UN2205 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors/Music Concentrations have priority for enrollment.
An introduction to the potential of digital sound synthesis and signal processing. Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced digital audio techniques. This course aims to challenge some of the tacet assumptions about music that are built into the design of various user interfaces and hardware and fosters a creative approach to using digital audio workstation software and equipment. Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors have priority for enrollment

MUSI UN2230 History and Practice of Electronic Music. 3.00 points.

This course will provide a critical survey of the development of electronic and computer music and sound from around the globe. From early experiments and precursors in the late 19th century through to modern-day experimental and popular music practices, this course aims to trace the development of technologies used in the production of electronic and computer derived sound and music alongside the economic, cultural, and social forces that contribute to the development of audiences. The course will focus intently on listening through a series of curated playlists in an effort to unpack style and genre distinctions. Readings and listening examples will be paired with small, hands-on assignments, that demonstrate the effect of music making tools on the process and structure of musical genres and styles ranging from the experimental practices of musique concrete, drone, and harsh noise to the mainstream practices of dub, techno, vaporwave, hyperpop, and hip hop and more

MUSI UN2314 EAR-TRAINING I. 1.00 point.

Designed to improve the students basic skills in sight-singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation

MUSI UN2315 EAR-TRAINING II. 1.00 point.

Techniques of sight-singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meter with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation

MUSI UN2318 MUSIC THEORY I. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Passing score on the placement exam administered prior to the first day of class or Fundamentals of Music/UN1002.
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN2319 MUSIC THEORY II. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Passing score on the placement exam administered prior to the first day of class or Music Theory I/UN2318
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (V2314, V2315, V3316, or V3317, as determined by placement exam.)
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN3036 Schubert's Romantic Cycles. 3 points.

This course offers an intensive study of Schubert’s cyclic music written for chamber performance, 1822-1828. A major composer whose short life-span and delayed posterity skewed the trajectory of musical Romanticism during and after Beethoven, Schubert wrote a string of masterworks in his later years, including the String Quartets in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”) and G major, the dark song cycle Die Winterreise, the Impromptus and last three Sonatas for piano, the String Quintet in C, the Fantasy in F minor, and the two Piano Trios. His notably artistic friendship circle, his tangential relationship to patronage, and his extraordinary cultivation of chamber genres (including the Lied), reveal him to have had a Viennese career during the 1820s very different from that of Beethoven at the same time. Schubert’s illness and diagnosis with syphilis in late 1822 produced a crisis of creativity still relevant for scholars and students today, as the literature reveals: analyzing biography and art under the sign of death produces tensions we will explore in the course.

MUSI UN3128 HIST-WEST MUS: MID AGE-BAROQUE. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: MUSI UN2318 - MUSI UN2319. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
Prerequisites: MUSI UN2318 - MUSI UN2319. May be taken before or concurrently with this course. Topics in Western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works

MUSI UN3213 Bach Interpretation for Performers. 3.00 points.

This course will explore the music of Johann Sebastian Bach from the perspective of performance. Attention will be given to Baroque dance forms and the social significance of dance in the 18th century, the art of rhetoric as a driving force for convincing delivery, an exploration of period instruments, and the study of elements of style such as articulation and ornamentation. The course consists of lectures, discussions, guided listening, score analysis, reading assignments, and performance projects. Aside from Bach’s scores, we will examine three key 17th- and 18th-century vocal and instrumental treatises, and a wide array of literature on rhetorical style and performance practice. Upon successful completion of the course, students will gain a deeper understanding of interpreting the music of J.S. Bach and Baroque music in general, both as listeners and as performers

MUSI UN3241 ADVANCED COMPOSITION I. 3.00 points.

Composition Faculty

Prerequisites: UN3239/Intro to Comp I
Composition in more extended forms. Study of advanced techniques of contemporary composition. Readings of student works

MUSI UN3316 EAR-TRAINING III. 1.00 point.

Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters that involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases

MUSI UN3317 EAR-TRAINING IV. 1.00 point.

Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight-singing. Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation

AHMM UN3321 MUSICS OF INDIA ＆ WEST ASIA. 3.00 points.

CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement

A topical approach to the concepts and practices of music in relation to other arts in the development of Asian civilizations

MUSI UN3321 MUSIC THEORY III. 3.00 points.

A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term.

Prerequisites: MUSI V2319.
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN3322 MUSIC THEORY IV. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Music Theory II/UN3321
Intermediate analysis and composition in a variety of tonal and extended tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN3400 TOPICS IN MUSIC ＆ SOCIETY. 3.00 points.

Music Majors and Concentrators.

This course seeks to approach the study of music and society by comparatively studying repertories from different parts of the world, how the history of ideas and methods of studying such repertoires shaped them, the practices that constitute them and the ways they are understood and used by different peoples. Central to this course is the interrelationship between the constitution of a repertoire and the history of the construction of knowledge about it

MUSI UN3995 HONORS RESEARCH. 2.00-3.00 points.

Open to honors candidates in music only.

Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details.
Prerequisites: a formal proposal to be submitted and approved prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision, leading to completion of an honors essay, composition, or the equivalent

MUSI UN3998 SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY. 2.00-3.00 points.

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details.
Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details. A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision

MUSI GU4108 Critical Approaches to Opera Studies. 3.00 points.

Why opera now? In what ways can a 400-year-old art form speak to the needs of contemporary society? This seminar provides an introduction to critical opera studies: we will analyze a broad range of lyric repertory (spanning from Monteverdi to Saariaho) while interrogating the debates these works have generated, both historically and in the present day. Topics to be considered include: operatic institutions and conventions; gender and voice; theories of “text” and liveness; modernist staging; the troubling legacies of Empire and exoticism; and the intersections of opera and multimedia (opera on/as film, opera in HD, site-specific opera). Wherever possible, this course will incorporate live performance in New York, engaging the Metropolitan Opera as well as institutions for “indie” opera and new music. While completion of Music Humanities is a suggested pre-requisite, this class welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives. Individual assignments may be tailored to accommodate student interests and backgrounds outside of the field of music

MUSI GU4122 Songs of the Troubadours. 4 points.

Prerequisites: HUMA W1123, MUSI V3128.

This interdisciplinary seminar approaches the songs of the troubadours as poetic and musical traditions. Together we will develop methods for analysis and interpretation, situate the songs within literary and social history, and address broad issues such as the nature of performance, the interplay between orality and writing, the origins of troubadour poetry, fin’amor, and gender. Students will learn to analyze the poetic and musical structure of the songs and to transcribe and edit them from medieval manuscripts. Weekly assignments in Paden’s Introduction to Old Occitan will familiarize students with the language of the texts; one hour a week will be devoted to going over texts in the original language using Paden’s book. Individually designed paper assignments will take students’ backgrounds into account; students from all departments are welcome.

MUSI GU4308 Theory and Analysis of Jazz and Improvisation. 3.00 points.

This course explores diverse approaches to analyzing jazz and improvisation. Students will engage with analytical methods stemming from both scholars and improvisers, learn to apply traditional analytical approaches, examine critical issues underlying them, and develop new applications of heretofore underexamined ones. We will focus alternatively on harmony, solos, interaction, cognition, rhythm, and pedagogy, among other issues, and the survey will afford students insight into the priorities, methodologies, outcomes, and shortcomings of each of them. Additionally, the course covers theoretical texts produced by improvising musicians, as well as instances where improvisers engage with preexisting theoretical texts. Finally, we will also examine intersections between identity—encompassing issues such as race, ethnicity, gender, and class among others—and music theory. We will investigate characterizations of music theory, composition, and improvisation in terms of identity and suggest ways that we might incorporate the diverse range of theorists and analysts in our course into larger intellectual and musical histories

MUSI GU4360 ANALYSIS OF TONAL MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Detailed analysis of selected tonal compositions. This course, for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, is intended to develop understanding of tonal compositions and of theoretical concepts that apply to them, through study of specific works in various forms and styles

MUSI GU4418 Music and Fashion. 3.00 points.

Fashion has been integral to musical performance practices, and music continues to influence fashion. As a result, specific music genres and practitioners are linked to particular fashion trends and movements that represent their persona and appearance. In various cultures around the world, music and fashion play a significant role in marking identity, as practitioners’ cultural heritage impacts the choice of costumes they wear during performances in different spaces and times. Spread through live performances and mass-mediated technology, consumers and fans of these practitioners also adopt and integrate these fashion trends into their everyday styles. This class explores Some of the questions: How does fashion become a visual representation of specific music cultures, subcultures, genres, movements, and artists? How does fashion reflect, influence, inspire, evolve, spread, sustain, represent, affect, and communicate musical ideas? To answer these questions, musical fashion icons such as Beyoncé, Prince, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and David Bowie, and genres like Hip Hop, rock, Opera, K-pop, Afrobeats, and other global genres are examined through written scholarships, analysis of music performances and costumes, and their appearances in events and everyday life. This class explores how fashion trends influence sounds and vice versa, how they mark identity through music, embody symbolic sounds, and attract music consumers and fans who perpetuate these trends

MUSI GU4525 INSTRUMENTATION. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: extensive musical background. Analysis of instrumentation, with directional emphasis on usage, ranges, playing techniques, tone colors, characteristics, interactions and tendencies, all derived from the classic orchestral repertoire. Topics will include theoretical writings on the classical repertory as well as 20th century instrumentation and its advancement. Additional sessions with live orchestral demonstrations are included as part of the course

MUSI GU4630 RECORDED SOUND. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: The instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: The instructors permission. As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works

MUSI GU4810 Sound: Foundations. 3.00 points.

This foundational course in sound will begin by exploring how listening happens as well the tools necessary capture and present that listening. Through hands-on experimentation and demonstration, this seminar will examine both the technical and semiotic use of sound as amaterial within creative practice. Fundamental studio techniques will be explored including soldering for building cables, microphones, and loudspeakers. We will also explore the building blocks of analog and digital processes for the creation of sound, including microphones (types, patterns, and placement), basic synthesis, and techniques for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. Through creative projects that implement these skills we will learn by doing. We will study theories of sound and listening that determine or are determined by technology, from the physical and social dimensions of the sounds we use to create, language (sound as a symbol or object), acoustics (sound in space), acousmatics (sound without a visual reference), and psycho-acoustics (sound as cognitive process). This class assumes no prior knowledge or technical skill. Some reading will be assigned and we will look and listen to a lot of work, students are encouraged to participate actively in discussions

MUSI GU4998 SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY. 1.00-3.00 points.

MPP UN1401 BASSOON INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1403 CELLO INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1405 CLARINET INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1407 CLASSICAL SAXOPHONE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1409 FLUTE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1411 FRENCH HORN INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1413 GUITAR (BLUEGRASS) INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1415 GUITAR (CLASSICAL) INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1417 HARP INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1419 OBOE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1421 ORGAN INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1423 PERCUSSION INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1425 PIANO INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Signup 109/110 Dodge Sept 4&5; ALL LEVELS; $300 LESSON FEE
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1427 STRING BASS INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1429 TROMBONE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1431 TRUMPET INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1433 TUBA INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1435 VIOLA INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1437 VIOLIN INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1439 EARLY INSTRUMENTS: HARPSICHORD. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Prerequisites: Audition Required: Sign up for an audition time on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu Accepting NEW STUDENTS in FALL semester ONLY. $300 MUSIC LESSON FEE FOR ALL STUDENTS. All accepted MPP students must register for lessons and ensembles by the change-of-program deadline in order to be allowed to attend lessons that semester. Petitioning students must notify MPP staff prior to this deadline. Contact Music Performance Program at mpp@columbia.edu

MPP UN1441 EARLY INSTRUMENTS: VIOLA DA GAMBA. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1443 JAZZ BASS INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1445 JAZZ BASS (ELECTRIC) INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1447 JAZZ GUITAR (ELECTRIC) INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1449 JAZZ ORCHESTRATION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1451 JAZZ PERCUSSION INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1453 JAZZ PIANO INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1455 JAZZ SAXOPHONE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1457 JAZZ TROMBONE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1459 JAZZ TRUMPET INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1461 JAZZ VOICE INSTRUCTION. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers music lessons in various classical and jazz instruments, bluegrass guitar and jazz voice, taught by distinguished MPP Associate Faculty members. Lessons are 6 hours per semester. An audition is required

MPP UN1511 COLLEGIUM MUSICUM. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
Collegium Musicum is a performing group dedicated primarily to the study and performance of early music, broadly defined

MPP UN1521 UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA I. 2.00 points.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on the MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu or on the CUO website: http://cuo.music.columbia.edu/
Founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, the Columbia University Orchestra is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. The principal mission of the Orchestra is to expose talented student musicians to the highest level of orchestral repertoire. An audition is required

MPP UN1531 CHAMBER ENSEMBLE. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various classical ensembles and study with some of the most renowned chamber musicians in New York City. An audition is required

MPP UN1541 COLUMBIA UNIV JAZZ ENSEMBL. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal, that cover a wide range of musical ensembles. All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience

MPP UN1551 WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE. 1.00 point.

Prerequisites: Auditions are required. Sign up for an audition on MPP website: www.mpp.music.columbia.edu
In collaboration with the Center for Ethnomusicology, MESAAS, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, the Music Performance Program (MPP) offers students the opportunity to participate in various world music ensembles: Arab Music, Bluegrass, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku, Klezmer and Latin American Music. Each ensemble requires different levels of experience, so please refer to the World Music section of the Music Performance Program website for more info. Please note the Latin American Music Ensemble focuses on two different Latin music traditions: The Afro-Cuban Ensemble meets in the Fall and the Brazilian Ensemble meets in the Spring

MUSI UN1002 FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Corequisites: Introductory Ear-Training (V1312, or higher, as determined by placement exam).
Introduction to music, including notation, written and aural skills, and basic conceptual resources of music theory. Exploration of scale, mode, rhythm, meter, texture and form, with reference to a diverse range of musics

HUMA UN1123 MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Analysis and discussion of representative works from the Middle Ages to the present

MUSI UN1312 INTRODUCTORY EAR-TRAINING. 1.00 point.

This course is an introduction to basic skills in sight reading. Instruction includes reading rhythms in simple meter, solfege recitation, and sight-singing simple melodies

MUSI UN2205 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MUSIC. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors/Music Concentrations have priority for enrollment.
An introduction to the potential of digital sound synthesis and signal processing. Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced digital audio techniques. This course aims to challenge some of the tacet assumptions about music that are built into the design of various user interfaces and hardware and fosters a creative approach to using digital audio workstation software and equipment. Permission of Instructor required to enroll. Music Majors have priority for enrollment

MUSI UN2240 The Song Within Us: Composition, Analysis, Performance. 3.00 points.

This class offers insight through composing, analysis, and performance for the composer, singer/songwriter, and performance artist. Coupling specifics of rhythm, melody, and harmony with story telling, lyric writing and the voice itself, students will be encouraged to share their imagination in song regardless of style, genre, or aesthetic. Music ranging from Chant to Music Theatre, the German lied to international pop fusion will be included as models upon which to base discussion and creative endeavor. Improvisation and musicianship techniques will complement pedagogical presentations of tonal and non - tonal compositional practice. A required final project based on any combination of composition, analysis, and performance, and in any media will be due at the end of the semester. All levels of experience and all types of instruments are welcome. Notation software is recommended but not required

MUSI UN2314 EAR-TRAINING I. 1.00 point.

Designed to improve the students basic skills in sight-singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation

MUSI UN2315 EAR-TRAINING II. 1.00 point.

Techniques of sight-singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meter with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation

MUSI UN2318 MUSIC THEORY I. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Passing score on the placement exam administered prior to the first day of class or Fundamentals of Music/UN1002.
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of modal and tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN2319 MUSIC THEORY II. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: Passing score on the placement exam administered prior to the first day of class or Music Theory I/UN2318
Corequisites: one course from Ear-Training I-IV (V2314, V2315, V3316, or V3317, as determined by placement exam.)
Elementary analysis and composition in a variety of tonal idioms. A one-hour weekly lab is required, to be scheduled at the beginning of the term. Course to be taken in conjunction with the Ear-Training sequence, up through Ear-Training IV

MUSI UN2500 Women and Music. 3 points.

This course explores the relationship between women, music, and performance from a thematic and a cross-cultural perspective. Through the analysis of different case studies, we will investigate different topics from the perspective of ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and performance studies. A number of critical questions we will consider include: how does a particular gender ideology constructs and is constructed by musical aesthetics? What are some of the critical roles for women in performance?  What is the significance of gender in performances? What does it mean for women to have have and to be the voice? And how is a musical performance bound up with emotions?

MUSI UN2582 JAZZ IMPROVISTN:THRY,HIST,PRAC. 3.00 points.

This course offers an introduction to jazz improvisation for instrumentalists. Through recordings, transcriptions, daily performance and selected readings, students will actively engage the history of jazz through their instruments and intellect. The idea of improvisation will be explored in an historical context, both as a musical phenomenon with its attendant theory and mechanics, and as a trope of American history and aesthetics. This class is for instrumentalists who wish to deepen their understanding of the theory, history and practice of jazz improvisation. The history of jazz will be used as a prism through which to view approaches to improvisation, from the cadences of the early Blues through the abstractions of Free Jazz and beyond. The student will be exposed to the theory and vocabularies of various jazz idioms, which they will also learn to place in their social and historical contexts

MUSI UN3023 Late Beethoven. 3 points.

Prerequisites: MUSI UN2318-UN2319 MUSI UN2318-UN2319 or the instructor's permission.

An examination of the visionary works of Beethoven's last dozen or so years as a composer, beginning with the revision of his only opera, Fidelio, in 1814, and continuing with the late piano sonatas, cello sonatas, string quartets, Diabelli variations, Ninth Symphony, and the Missa Solemnis. Topics will include late style, romanticism, politics, deafness, and the changing nature of the musical work and its performance.

MUSI UN3103 Afrofuturism and Society: Music, Media, and Race. 3.00 points.

An aesthetic, perspective, and practice, Afrofuturism places Afro-diasporic peoples at the center of science-fiction and speculative narratives, affording Black people narrative agency over their past, present, and future. Afrofuturism exists as an essential site for the interrogation and celebration of Black life, while also serving as a thoughtful critique of anti-Black sentiments and white supremacy. This course will familiarize students with the historical underpinnings, contexts, and both seminal and contemporary works that are a part of the movement and which situate Afrofuturism as part of a larger socio-cultural discourse on race, creativity, and activism. We will be discussing Afrofuturism’s historical and socio-cultural positionality, but will also ask: in the midst of global anti-Blackness, the post-Trump era, a pandemic, and the era of Black Lives Matter, where does Afrofuturism fit in the existing discourse?

MUSI UN3129 HIST-WEST MUS:CLASSICAL-20TH CENTURY. 3.00 points.

Prerequisites: MUSI V2318-2319. May be taken before or concurrently with this course.
Topics in Western music from the Classical era to the present day, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and on analysis of selected works