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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 1106 - [Introduction to Western Music Theory]
• 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 2380 - Performing Hip Hop (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3111 - [Jazz Improvisation and Theory I]
• MUSIC 3112 - Jazz Improvisation and Theory II
• MUSIC 3115 - [Jazz Piano]
• MUSIC 3121 - [Choral Conducting]
• MUSIC 3122 - Conducting
• MUSIC 4121 - [Advanced Conducting]
• MUSIC 4340 - [Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 4341 - [Writing Musical Ethnography]

Music in History and Culture:

• MUSIC 1205 - [Introduction to Western Art Music]
• MUSIC 1212 - Music on the Brain (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1213 - Music on the Brain Field Study– Whale Conservation: Marine Stewardship in Cape Cod Bay
• MUSIC 1312 - History of Rock Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1313 - [A Survey of Jazz] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1330 - [African Music] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 1343 - Musics in Asia
• MUSIC 2006 - [Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2130 - Collaborative Creativity
• MUSIC 2221 - Bach and Handel
• MUSIC 2244 - [The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2250 - The American Musical (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2260 - [Music of the 1960’s] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2290 - [You Have Terrible Taste in Music]
• MUSIC 2311 - The Art and Craft of Music Journalism
• MUSIC 2330 - Music in and of East Asia (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2340 - The Beatles (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2341 - Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2370 - Planet Rap: Where Hip Hop Came From and Where It’s Going (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2372 - Songs of the Summer: Social Histories of U.S. Popular Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2642 - [The Art of Math: Mathematical Traditions of Symmetry and Harmony] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2701 - Music and Digital Gameplay (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 2703 - Thinking Media (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3302 - Rhythm and Blues to Funk: Black Popular Music Before Hip Hop (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3305 - Eclectic Jazz History
• MUSIC 3316 - [What’s in a Sound? Gender and Race in Sound Cultures] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3325 - Punk Rock Feminism Rules: Riot Grrrl, Community Building, and the Archive
• MUSIC 3480 - Brazilian Culture through its Music (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3490 - [Hip Hop in Global Perspective]
• MUSIC 4233 - Music and Touch (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4241 - [Historical Keyboarding]
• MUSIC 4270 - [Minimalism]
• MUSIC 4312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4313 - Music and Sound Studies
• MUSIC 4331 - The Velvet Underground Archive (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4345 - [Sound, Silence, and the Sacred] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 4454 - [Writing on Tape in the 1970s] (crosslisted)

Music History Courses for Majors and Qualified Nonmajors:

• MUSIC 2201 - Introduction to Music Studies
• MUSIC 2207 - [History of Western Music I]
• MUSIC 2208 - [History of Western Music II]
• MUSIC 2260 - [Music of the 1960’s] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3901 - Supplemental Study in Music
• 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 3140 - Instrumentation for Composers
• MUSIC 3141 - The Composer’s Toolbox
• MUSIC 3182 - Making Noise: The Art and Process of Sound Generation (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3431 - Sound Design (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 3511 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3513 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 3514 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 4112 - [Composition]
• MUSIC 4410 - [Bending Instruments]
• MUSIC 4412 - [Making Sound Futures]
• MUSIC 4421 - Technology in Music Performance
• MUSIC 4440 - [FutureSounds]
• MUSIC 4442 - Modern Harmony: A Survey of Harmonic Practices from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
• MUSIC 4501 - Individual Instruction
• MUSIC 6412 - [Making Sound Futures]

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 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 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 Music]
• MUSIC 4615 - Jazz Ensemble
• MUSIC 4616 - Jazz Combo
• 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 6233 - Music and Touch
• MUSIC 6241 - [Historical Keyboarding]
• MUSIC 6270 - [Minimalism]
• MUSIC 6312 - [Synthesizing Pop: Electronics and the Musical Imagination] (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6313 - Music and Sound Studies
• MUSIC 6331 - The Velvet Underground Archive (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6340 - [Fieldwork Methods in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 6341 - [Writing Musical Ethnography]
• MUSIC 6400 - Thinking Media Studies (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 6410 - [Bending Instruments]
• MUSIC 6420 - [Electroacoustic Techniques]
• MUSIC 6421 - [Electroacoustic Composition]
• MUSIC 6422 - Technology in Music Performance
• MUSIC 6440 - [FutureSounds]
• MUSIC 6442 - Modern Harmony: A Survey of Harmonic Practices from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
• MUSIC 6819 - Urban Justice Lab (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7111 - Composition
• MUSIC 7120 - [Orchestration: Approaches to Large Ensemble Music in the 20th and 21st centuries]
• MUSIC 7204 - [Seminar in Eighteenth Century Music]
• MUSIC 7211 - [Seminar in Performance Practice]
• MUSIC 7213 - History of Sound (crosslisted)
• MUSIC 7306 - Charles Burney’s Musical Travels
• MUSIC 7324 - [Postmusic]
• MUSIC 7334 - [Issues in Ethnomusicology]
• MUSIC 7362 - [Musical Value: Histories of Aesthetics]
• MUSIC 7420 - [Composing Networks]
• MUSIC 7430 - [Rethinking the Instrument]
• MUSIC 7422 - [idEars- ideas for ears]
• MUSIC 7901 - Independent Study in Music