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First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• MUSIC 1701 - FWS: Sound, Sense and Ideas

Music Theory:

• MUSIC 1100 - Elements of Musical Notation
• MUSIC 1101 - Elements of Music
• MUSIC 1105 - Building Musical Skills
• MUSIC 1108 - [Technological Musicianship]
• MUSIC 1466 - Physics of Musical Sound (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2101 - Theory, Materials and Techniques I
• MUSIC 2102 - Theory, Materials and Techniques II
• MUSIC 2111 - Songwriting
• MUSIC 2112 - Collaborative Songwriting
• MUSIC 2120 - [The Art of Conducting]
• MUSIC 3111 - [Jazz Improvisation and Theory I]
• MUSIC 3112 - Jazz Improvisation and Theory II
• MUSIC 3115 - [Jazz Piano]
• MUSIC 3121 - [Choral Conducting]
• MUSIC 4102 - [Topics in Music Analysis]
• MUSIC 4340 - Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology
• MUSIC 4341 - Writing Musical Ethnography

Music in History and Culture:

• MUSIC 1201 - [European Music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque]
• MUSIC 1202 - Classical Music from 1750 to the Present
• MUSIC 1212 - Music on the Brain (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1312 - [History of Rock Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1313 - [A Survey of Jazz] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1320 - [Music of Latin America] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1321 - [Music of Mexico and the Mexican Diaspora] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1330 - [African Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1340 - Soundscapes of Social Protest
• MUSIC 1343 - Musics in Asia
• MUSIC 2006 - [Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2221 - Bach and Handel
• MUSIC 2241 - [Music as Drama: An Introduction to Opera] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2244 - The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ
• MUSIC 2260 - Music of the 1960’s (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2270 - [Thinking with Music]
• MUSIC 2311 - The Art and Craft of Music Journalism
• MUSIC 2320 - Latino Music in the US (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2330 - Music in and of East Asia (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2341 - Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2350 - [Music of the African Diaspora] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2370 - Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It’s Going (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2380 - [Performing Hip Hop] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2642 - [The Art of Math: Mathematical Traditions of Symmetry and Harmony] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3205 - [Cultural Studies of Music]
• MUSIC 3324 - Singing from the Heart: Choral Music and the Human Experience
• MUSIC 3480 - [Brazilian Culture through its Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3490 - Hip Hop in Global Perspective
• MUSIC 4224 - [Mozart in Context]
• MUSIC 4233 - Music Aesthetics and Criticism: Sensation, Sympathy and Theories of Touch c. 1800
• MUSIC 4306 - [Historical Performance Practice]
• MUSIC 4312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)

Music History Courses for Majors and Qualified Nonmajors:

• MUSIC 2207 - History of Western Music I
• MUSIC 2208 - [History of Western Music II]
• MUSIC 2209 - [History of Western Music III: Postwar Music and Sound]
• MUSIC 2260 - Music of the 1960’s (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3211 - Seminar in Advanced Music Studies
• MUSIC 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• MUSIC 4181 - Psychology of Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4345 - [Sound, Silence, and the Sacred] (crosslisted)

Music Composition:

• MUSIC 1421 - Introduction to Computer Music
• MUSIC 1465 - Computing in the Arts (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2421 - Computers in Music Performance
• MUSIC 2440 - Shaping Sound I: An introduction to Experimentation in Sound and Composition
• MUSIC 2441 - Shaping Sound II
• MUSIC 3141 - The Composer’s Toolbox I
• MUSIC 3142 - [The Composer’s Toolbox II]
• MUSIC 3422 - Perform it Yourself
• MUSIC 3431 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3511 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3512 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3513 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3514 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 4112 - Composition
• MUSIC 4410 - [Bending Instruments] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4440 - FutureSound
• MUSIC 4501 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 6410 - Bending Instruments

Independent Study and Honors:

• MUSIC 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• MUSIC 3902 - Choral Musicianship
• MUSIC 4901 - Independent Study in Music
• MUSIC 4911 - Honors in Music
• MUSIC 4912 - Honors in Music

Musical Instruction:

• MUSIC 3511 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3512 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3513 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3514 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 4501 - Individual Instruction

Musical Organizations and Ensembles:

• MUSIC 3602 - Chorus
• MUSIC 3603 - Glee Club
• MUSIC 3604 - Chorale
• MUSIC 3609 - Brazilian Ensemble - Deixa Sambar (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3610 - Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
• MUSIC 3612 - [Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3613 - Cornell Steel Band (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3615 - Jazz Repertory Ensemble
• MUSIC 3616 - Cornell Hip-Hop Collective (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3621 - Cornell Symphony Orchestra
• MUSIC 3631 - Cornell Wind Symphony
• MUSIC 3634 - Cornell Percussion Group
• MUSIC 3660 - Music Improvisation Ensemble
• MUSIC 3701 - Performing Chamber Wind Music
• MUSIC 3703 - [Engaged Performance]
• MUSIC 4601 - Chamber Singers
• MUSIC 4615 - Jazz Ensemble
• MUSIC 4616 - Jazz Combos
• MUSIC 4621 - Cornell Chamber Orchestra
• MUSIC 4631 - Chamber Flute Ensemble
• MUSIC 4641 - Advanced Instruction in Gamelan
• MUSIC 4651 - Chamber Music Ensemble

Graduate Courses:

Open to qualified undergraduates by permission of instructor.

• MUSIC 6201 - Research and Critical Methodologies
• MUSIC 6224 - [Mozart in Context]
• MUSIC 6233 - Music Aesthetics and Criticism: Sensation, Sympathy and Theories of Touch c. 1800
• MUSIC 6312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6340 - Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology
• MUSIC 6341 - Writing Musical Ethnography
• MUSIC 6400 - Thinking Media Studies (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6420 - Electroacoustic Techniques
• MUSIC 6421 - [Electroacoustic Composition]
• MUSIC 6440 - FutureSound
• MUSIC 7111 - Composition
• MUSIC 7204 - [Seminar in Eighteenth Century Music]
• MUSIC 7205 - [Seminar in Nineteenth Century Music]
• MUSIC 7211 - Seminar in Performance Practice
• MUSIC 7222 - [Haydn and Sonata Form]
• MUSIC 7306 - [Charles Burney’s Musical Travels]
• MUSIC 7315 - [Music in Urban Africa] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7321 - Politics, Utopias, and Noise in the Sound Archive
• MUSIC 7323 - [History of Sound Art]
• MUSIC 7334 - [Issues in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 7345 - [Latin American Music Historiography and Sources]
• MUSIC 7356 - Rhetoric of Social Movements (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7411 - [Rethinking the Sound Sculpture]
• MUSIC 7430 - [Rethinking the Instrument]
• MUSIC 7420 - [Composing Networks]
• MUSIC 7422 - [idEars- ideas for ears]
• MUSIC 7501 - Historical Performance Practice
• MUSIC 7901 - Independent Study in Music