Courses

Study and performance of chamber music

For course description, SEE: E85.2085

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Performance of the major choral literature. The society presents concerts at many University and public functions. Smaller ensembles are derived from the total membership.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study and performance of standard dance band literature, experimental jazz compositions, and student arrangements.

Rehearsal & performance of orchestral literature. Audition required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal & performance of orchestral literature. Audition required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This ensemble performs traditional and contemporary Wind Ensemble literature of serious artistic merit with special focus on diverse music and the music of living composers. Membership is open to any student at NYU by audition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This repertory ensemble performs traditional and contemporary literature from the Symphonic Band/Wind Ensemble genres. Membership is open to any student at NYU by audition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This ensemble performs traditional and contemporary Wind Ensemble literature of serious artistic merit with special focus on diverse music and the music of living composers. Membership is open to any student at NYU by audition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course explores the connection between language teaching observation and reflective practice. Students observe language teaching in 30+ hours of fieldwork in a variety of local educational settings. Students connect field observations to seminar discussions, presentations, and reports.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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• Department: Teaching and Learning

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• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course examines the convergence of different technologies and cultures in telephony since the nineteenth century. It surveys the technical development of the telephone, from its roots in telegraphy to radio and portable phones to mobile computing. We will trace the history of 'telephonic principles' such as interaction and universality, and telephony in various social contexts: national and transnational telephone cultures; genres of text messaging; the relationship of communication technology to public, private, and virtual space; and the appropriation of the medium for the purposes of art and activism.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Explores approaches to choreographing, directing, and performing for and with children and adolescents in a variety of educational settings. Specific attention paid to differentiated instruction, culturally and developmentally appropriate source materials and activities , and the use of performance in developing communication and social skills. Performance as formative and summative assessment is discussed.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An examination of opera from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. An overview of the important works composed within this time period and an in-depth musical examination of selected pre-1950 works. Discussion of issues in present day composition and production of opera, including perspectives from prominent people in the field.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course asks students to define “What is Opera?” by deconstructing and defining it as an internationally recognized art form rising from and uniquely linked to musical and societal changes and the human condition. Students study the origins and developments of European opera from the 16th century through the 17th century, including national schools and styles, significant musical developments (formal, theoretical), cultural, social, and literary contexts as well as performance practices.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course asks students to define “What is Opera?” by deconstructing and defining it as an internationally recognized art form evolving through and rising out of 19th Century Europe. Students explore national schools and styles, significant musical developments (formal, theoretical), cultural, social, and literary contexts as well as performance practices. The course culminates in a discussion of changes that will arise in the 20th and 21st centuries and beyond.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study of fundamental performance techniques for all singers, including speech and movement. Performance of selected material – solos, monologues, scenes, duets, and small ensembles.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study of fundamental performance techniques for all singers, including speech and movement. Performance of selected material - solos, monologues, scenes, duets, and small ensembles.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions