Courses Offered in Fall 2010 (99AY 1S)

A core-course in two semesters for all year one students. Those who are interested in writing research paper in music are also welcome. In the first semester, we'll be exploring about the what, why and how of music research, in the second the different sources and resources (literary, notational, audio-visual). We'll be doing a lot of thinking, reading, talking and writing, in and out of the classroom. An important companion throughout our journey will be the computer and the Internet. Our aim is to train ourself to be a modern-day musician-scholar, who can make music and make sense of music cleverly and critically. Concrete "product" at the end of the semester will be a mini-conference and an anthology of selected written work. Reading assignments for performers will focus on recent research in musical performance.

A writing seminar where individual projects are presented and discussed, complemented by readings in theoretical and methodological literature on musicological research and writing. The aim is to help each other to be a more experienced and critical writer of academic paper. The end "product" for each participant will be a revised and improved paper (oral and written). A mini-conference and an anthology of selected paper are planned.

A core-course in two semesters for all year-one students. Those who are interested in writing research paper in music are also welcome. In the first semester, we'll be exploring about the what, why and how of music research, in the second, the different sources and resources (literary, notational, audio-visual). We'll be doing a lot of thinking, reading, talking and writing, in and out of the classroom. An important companion throughout our journey will be the computer and the Internet. Our aim is to train ourself to be a modern-day musician-scholar, who can make music and make sense of music cleverly and critically. Concrete "product" at the end of the semester will be a mini-conference and an anthology of selected written work. Reading assignments for composers and musicologists will cover a broad range of topics such as composition, opera, popular music, music theory and technology.

Connecting music analysis with source reading, sound with society, composition with culture, this course focuses on the music of the late 18th century: mainly Mozart's operas, Haydn's symphonies, and their later works. Issues discussed include Enlightenment ideas, music as entertainment, edification as well as self-expression, and instrumental music and the construction of meaning.
Participants have to report on their readings, and take two written exams.

For musicology majors and other students who are interested in independent study, this course will engage historical documents to research into the issues of the aesthetics of opera and the historiography of music in the late 18th century.
Participants will learn to read historical sources and current literature sensitively and critically, and gain experience in academic writing.