Semesters when certain courses are usually offered are indicated "fall", "spring," and "summer." Check the most recent schedule information to confirm availability.
T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students (3 cr.) Designed to satisfy deficiencies indicated by the Graduate Music Theory Entering Proficiency Examination. Part writing, form, harmonization. Removal of deficiency requires a grade of C or higher. If T511 Aural Theory Review for Graduate Students is also required, T508 Written Music Theory Review should be taken first. (fall, summer)
T509 Sight-Singing Review for Graduate Students (3 cr.) Designed to satisfy deficiencies indicated by the Graduate Music Theory Entering Proficiency Examination. Music reading involving intervals, scales, chord outlines, rhythm patterns, and meter through solo and ensemble singing. Removal of reading deficiency requires a grade of C or higher. (fall of each year, summer of odd-numbered years)
T511 Aural Music Theory Review for Graduate Students (3 cr.) Designed to satisfy deficiencies indicated by the Graduate Music Theory Entering Proficiency Examination. Removal of deficiency requires a grade of D or higher. If T508 Written Music Theory Review is also required, it should be taken before T511 Aural Theory Review for Graduate Students. (offered every spring, summers of even-numbered years)
T545 Introductory Analysis of Music Literature (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students and M541-M542, Music History Review for Graduate Students I-II, or equivalent. Basic techniques of analysis applied to a selection of music literature emphasizing works from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century. (fall, spring)
T550 Readings in Music Theory (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent. Introduction to the discipline of music theory: objectives, issues, trends, methods, resources, literature. (spring)
T551 Analytical Techniques for Tonal Music (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent. In-depth analysis of common-practice repertoire through multiple techniques, including the study both of pitch and of rhythm. (fall)
T555 Schenkerian Analysis (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent; and T551 Introduction to Analytical Techniques or consent of instructor. Develops skill in applying Heinrich Schenker's analytic method for tonal music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (spring)
T556 Analysis of Music Since 1900 (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent. Analytical techniques for music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. (fall, summer)
T561 Music Theory: Variable Topics (3 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. May be repeated for different topics.
Fall 2013: Wagner Operas: Tristan and The Ring (Brody)
Fall 2013: 20th- and 21st-Century Dramatic Works (Kielian-Gilbert)
Spring 2013: Tonal Systems in Early Music (Adams)
Fall 2012: The String Quartet in the 20th Century (Hook)
Spring 2012: Music and Narrative (Klein)
Fall 2011: Brahms's Harmony (Samarotto)
Spring 2011: Theory and Analysis of Rap (Adams)
Fall 2010: Music and Emotion (Hatten)
Spring 2010: Interpreting Late Beethoven (Hatten)
Fall 2009: Musical Memory, Voice, and Image (Kielian-Gilbert)
Fall 2008: Sonata Form: Approaches and Issues (Ivanovitch)
Spring 2006: Interpreting Late Beethoven (Hatten)
Fall 2005: Developing Computer-Based Music Instruction (Isaacson)
Spring 2005: The Philosophy of Music (Rowell)
Fall 2004: The String Quartet in the 20th Century (Hook)
Spring 2004: Models of Music Cognition (Isaacson)
Fall 2003: Musical Gesture: Theory and Interpretation (Hatten)
Fall 2003: Computer Tools for Music Research (Isaacson)
Fall 2001: Music Information Processing (Buchler)
Fall 2000: Multimedia Development for Music Research and Instruction (Isaacson)
Spring 2000: 20th-Century Opera (Hatten)
Fall 1999: Computer Tools for Music Research (Isaacson)
Spring 1998: Models of Music Cognition (Isaacson)
Spring 1997: Women, Music, and Gender (Kielian-Gilbert)
Fall 1996: Rhythm and Meter in Tonal Music (Wittlich)
Spring 1996: Art Musics of Asia (Rowell)
Fall 1995: Advanced Schenkerian Analysis (Neumeyer)
Spring 1995: The Philosophy of Music (Rowell)
T565 Stylistic Counterpoint: Variable Topics (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent. Analysis of, and composition in, the contrapuntal style of a given period, e.g., J. S. Bach and his contemporaries, the sixteenth-century sacred style, the romantic period. May be repeated for different topics. (fall)
T591 Teaching of Music Theory (3 cr.) P: T508 Written Music Theory Review for Graduate Students or equivalent. Comparative analysis of teaching techniques, procedures, and materials, with practical application. (spring, summer)
T599 Master's Degree Comprehensive Review (0 cr.) Review of a portfolio assembled from master's coursework. Taken in the final semester of study. (fall, spring)
T619 Projects and Problems in Music Theory I (cr. arr.) P: Consent of music theory department. Investigation and research in the field of music theory designed to meet individual needs of graduate students.
T623-T624 History of Music Theory I-II (3-3 cr.) I. Musical systems of antiquity; modal, rhythmic, and contrapuntal music theory to 1600. (fall of odd-numbered years) II. Music theory from 1600 through the mid-twentieth century. (spring of even-numbered years)
T658 Seminar in Music Theory: Variable Topics (3 cr). (fall, spring)
Fall 2013: Schoenberg, Webern, and Babbitt (Mead)
Summer 2013: Special Topics in Schenkerian Analysis (Samarotto)
Spring 2013: Sonata Form: Approaches and Issues (Ivanovitch)
Spring 2013: Music, Experience, Affect, Culture (Kielian-Gilbert)
Fall 2012: Analysis of Post-Romantic Music (Johnston)
Fall 2012: Advanced Schenkerian Analysis (Samarotto)
Spring 2012: Musical Spaces and Transformations (Hook)
Fall 2011: Theories of Rhythm and Meter (Horlacher)
Spring 2011: Music and the Poetic Text (Hatten)
Spring 2011: Visualizing Music (Isaacson)
Fall 2010: Advanced Schenkerian Analysis (Samarotto)
Summer 2010: Reshaping Time, 1770–1820 (Samarotto)
Spring 2010: Schema Theory and the Cultural Musical Mind (Byros)
Spring 2010: Theories of Rhythm and Meter (Horlacher)
Fall 2009: Theorizing Topics and Tropes (Hatten)
Fall 2009: Variation in the Classical Era (Ivanovitch)
Spring 2009: Musical Spaces and Transformations (Hook)
Spring 2009: Models of Music Cognition (Isaacson)
Fall 2008: Interpretive Turns: Music and Cultural Studies (Kielian-Gilbert)
Fall 2007: Advanced Music Theory Pedagogy (Wennerstrom)
Spring 2007: Advanced Atonal Theory (Hook)
Spring 2007: Visualizing Music (Isaacson)
Fall 2006: Advanced Schenker (Samarotto)
Fall 2006: Musical Meaning and Interpretation: Gesture, Topics, Tropes, and Expressive Genres (Hatten)
Spring 2006: Theories of Rhythm and Meter (Horlacher)
Fall 2005: Advanced Music Theory Pedagogy (Wennerstrom)
Fall 2005: Music, Voice, Text, Narrative (Kielian-Gilbert)
Spring 2005: Musical Spaces and Transformations (Hook)
Spring 2005: Reading Against the Grain: Music Analysis & Cultural Studies (Kielian-Gilbert)
Fall 2004: Musical Meaning: Theory and Interpretation (Hatten)
Fall 2004: Advanced Schenkerian Analysis (Samarotto)
Spring 2003: Rhythm and Meter (Horlacher)
Spring 2002: Music Genre, Design, Structure, and Discontinuity (Kielian-Gilbert)
Spring 1999: Current Approaches to Musical Meaning: Semiotic, Aesthetic, Postmodern (Hatten)
Spring 1998: The Music of Alban Berg (Rowell)
Spring 1997: Scales, Modes, Tunings (Rowell)
Spring 1995: Crossing Boundaries: Musical Subjectivity, Meaning, and Cognition (Kielian-Gilbert)
T659 Public Lecture (0 cr.) Formal presentation to the public of a research paper.
T700 Dissertation in Music Theory (cr. arr.)