Courses Offered in Fall 2025 (114AY 1S)

This graduate course introduces research methods, as well as the strategies and the “language” of writing about music to performance majors. We start with a brief review of the basics of research tools and crucial issues in and ethics of academic writing. We continue with a series of sample writings hand in hand with these principles. We will see how the authors focus on different aspects of perspectives in their discussion of music and how they develop and sharpen their arguments.

The aim of this course is to offer graduate music majors necessary tools and directions to engage in an intelligent discussion of their repertory, skills that they may apply to their term projects, thesis writing, and lecture recitals. The readings included in the syllabus will enable us to see the variety of ways that an author may use to approach a music work. We will have invited music scholars(s) coming to discuss the ways that they phrase they theories arguments.

The course is provided for full time students of Institute of Music, NYCU, who major on string instrument.

A pre-seminar to the study of music from a cultural and comparative perspective.

This 3-credit seminar explores Beethoven from the perspective of historical and theoretical analyses, performance practice, interpretation and reception of his works as well as the image of Beethoven European culture. With a primary focus on Beethoven, we will also use the discussion of him and his works as a staring point to explore the cultural climate in Europe between late 18th- and early 20th centuries.