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LIST OF MUSIC APPRECIATION/HISTORY COURSES TAUGHT
at the 92nd Street Y (or NYU) since 1984
(courses last twelve weeks, 100 minutes per session, unless otherwise indicated.)
1. CLASSICAL MUSIC
SURVEY COURSES, 1700 – Present
The Art of Listening: An Introduction to Music
Music Below the Surface: An Introduction to Music
The High Baroque, 1700-1750: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Couperin, Telemann
The Classical Style, Part I: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
The Romantic Style: Schubert to Mahler
Music for Orchestra: The 18th Century
Music for Orchestra: Beethoven to The Rite of Spring
Music from 1825 to 1945: Schubert to Stravinsky
The Evolution of the Symphony: Haydn to Mahler
The Symphony After Mahler: Sibelius to Glass
Leonard Bernstein's Omnibus Lectures Revisited, 1955-58
The Complete, "The Unanswered Question": Exploring Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures
Aaron Copland: Music in the 1920's (Exploring the 12-part PBS series)
Music from the 1940's: Post War/Cold War
Music and Dance, Watching and Listening: from Stravinsky to Marsalis, Parts I, II & III (29 sessions)
Moments of Crisis - Music for the Soul: Choral Masterpieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky, Britten and Bernstein
BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL PERIODS
The Keyboard Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
The 18th Century: Enlightenment to Revolution
Johann Sebastian Bach and His World (2 consecutive semesters, 22 weeks)
Haydn & Mozart – The Symphony
Haydn, Mozart and the Birth of the Quartet
Haydn Quartets
Haydn & Mozart: Trios, Quartets and Quintets
The “Complete” Mozart (3 consecutive semesters, 34 weeks)
Mozart Before Vienna: 1773-1781
Mozart in Vienna: 1781 to 1791
The “Complete” Beethoven (3 consecutive semesters, 34 weeks)
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies
Beethoven: Chamber Music, Quartets and Sonatas
Piano Concertos of Mozart and Beethoven
Masterworks of Chamber Music (6 semester sequence)
Beethoven at 250, Part I: A Symphony Celebration
Beethoven at 250, Part II: Chamber Music and Music for Piano
Beethoven at 250, Part III: From the "New Path" to the Grosse Fuge
Mozart: Orchestral Genius - The Piano Concertos and Symphonies
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Mozart Piano Sonatas and Fantasies
Birth of the Symphony from the Galant to the Classical Style: Stamitz, Sammartini, CPE Bach, Haydn and Mozart
The Baroque Concerto: Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach & Handel
The Symphony's First Golden Age: Haydn and Mozart
The Symphony's Second Golden Age: Beethoven & Schubert
ROMANTIC ERA
The Music of Franz Schubert: Classicist and Romantic
Frederic Chopin and the Romantic Era
Robert Schumann: Radical Modernist & Classicist
Schumann and Chopin: a 200th Birthday Celebration
Mendelssohn & Schumann – The Chamber Music
Johannes Brahms – Music for Orchestra
Johannes Brahms – Chamber Music, 1855-1870
Johannes Brahms – Chamber Music, 1871-1896
Music of Russia, Part I: Tchaikovsky & Mussorgsky
The Complete Mahler (2 consecutive semesters, 24 weeks)
Music for Orchestra, 1805-1850: from Beethoven to Liszt
Music for Orchestra, 1850-1913: from Schumann to Stravinsky
After Beethoven: Early Romantic Chamber Music - Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann
The Symphony After Beethoven: Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt
Music of Chopin: Tragic Genius (2 semesters, 18 weeks)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky and His World
EUROPEAN MODERNISM
Benjamin Britten: 100th Birthday Celebration
The Isle of Joy: Music of Claude Debussy
The Music of Maurice Ravel: Incomparable Beauty
Erik Satie and the Birth of the Avant Garde
Birth of the Modern, Part I: Paris, 1889 to 1929
Birth of the Modern, Part II: Vienna and Berlin, 1900 to 1934
The “Complete” Stravinsky (2 consecutive semesters, 24 weeks)
Bela Bartok: His Music and World
Music of England, Part I: Elgar, Delius & Vaughn-William
Music of England, Part II: Benjamin Britten, William Walton
Modern Beauty: 100 Years of Music for Dance
Music of Terezin: Ullman, Krasa, Haas, Klein & Berman (three-week mini-course)
The Chamber Music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
Music in the 1890's - Europe and America
Music in the 1910's - The Emergence of Modernism
Music in the 1920's - The Anything Goes Decade (Europe and America)
Music in the 1930's - A Decade in Crisis (Europe and America)
The War Years: 1940-45 (Europe and America)
Music in the 1940's - Europe and America
The 20th Century: Debussy to Glass
Seven Masterpieces from 1917: a 100th Anniversary
Music of Russia, Part II: Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich
Beauty Reimagined - French Chamber Music: Franck, Faure, Debussy, Ravel & Milhaud
Introducing “Les Six” - Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger: The Spirit of a New Generation
2. AMERICAN STUDIES
CLASSICAL SCENE
American Masters, Part I: 1890 to 1950, Ives to Copland
American Masters, Part II: 1950-2000, Bernstein to Adams
The American Composer Today
Gershwin at 100
Copland at 100
Music by Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein & the Jewish Experience
Copland & Bernstein at the Millennium
Music of Samuel Barber
The African-American Composer in America
Crossing Genres: 1990-2010
The Living Composer
Music from Latin America – 20th Century
Music of Our Time: 1960-2000 - America and Latin America (two consecutive semesters, 24 weeks)
American Music Comes of Age – The Concert Hall: 1920-1950
The Symphonic Side of Leonard Bernstein: a 100th Birthday Celebration
"Just Don't Call it Minimalism:" The Music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich
Music of Our Time and Place: Selected American Composers from 1970 to 2020
Music and Dance in the U.S.A. - American Composers and Choreographers Come of Age
The New American Concert Scene, 1850 to 1930: Gottschalk to Gershwin
The Expanding American Scene - Composers in the 1930's
Crossing Genres - The Soul of American Music: Ellington & Copland
JAZZ
Louis Armstrong: From New Orleans Style to Modern Master
Jazz, Part I, The Birth of Jazz: Joplin to Armstrong
Jazz, Part II, Swing & the Rise of Modern Jazz: From Duke to Bird
Jazz, Part III, Bebop and Beyond: From Dizzy to Miles
Jazz, Part IV, From Coltrane to Marsalis
Jazz, the Composers: Joplin to Marsalis
Ellington at 100
Ellington in the Concert Hall: The Suites
Jazz in the Concert Hall – from Europe to America
The Jazz Concept Album, Parts I & II
Five Giants of Jazz: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Wayne Shorter
Six Giants of Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck and Miles in the ‘60s
Jazz in the 1950's, Parts I & II (2 semester sequence)
Jazz in the 1960's, Part I & II (2 semester sequence)
Jazz and World Music: Fusion in the 1960's
Straight from New Orleans: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and the Invention of Jazz
From Scott Joplin to Fats Waller: St. Louis Ragtime to Harlem Stride
The Rise of Swing - 1930 to 1940: Basie, Ellington, Goodman
POPULAR SONG
The Blues: W.C. Handy to Muddy Waters
American Song: Stephen Foster to the Present
American Song, Part I, 1830 to 1920
American Song, Part II: 1920 to 1945
American Song, Part III: The Blues: An American Story, 1900 - 1960
American Song, Part IV: American Roots Music - The Song of Rural America, 1920 to 1960
American Song, Part V: The Rise of Rock and Roll: 1945 to 1970
American Song, Part VI: From Spirituals and Gospel to Soul: The Rise of Soul Music
American Song, Part VII: The Singer-Songwriter, 1960's Part I
American Song, Part VIII: The Singer-Songwriter, 1960's Part II
American Song, Part IX: 1970: The Singer-Songwriter Comes of Age
American Song, Part X: 1971-72: The Singer-Songwriter in Bloom
American Song, Part XI: 1970's & 1980's: Singer-Songwriters Mid-Stream and Renewal
American Song, Part XII: Women & Songwriting, Part I - Folk, Country and Pop
American Song, Part XIII - The "Old Guard" Into the New Millenium: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, Jackson Browne
Bob Dylan, Parts I & II (2 semesters, 24 weeks)
Blowin' in the Wind: Politics & Song, American Style
The Beatles
The Beatles After The Beatles – The Solo Careers
Love in Song: Love, Lust & Sexual Politics in Song Since Stephen Foster
The Concept Album
Bob Dylan & Paul Simon at 70: Forever Young
A Birthday Celebration: Carole King, Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell & Randy Newman @ 70
Four Essential Songwriters: Leonard Cohen, Laura Nyro, Neil Young & James Taylor
Joni Mitchell is 75: or How Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and Carole King Changed the Face of Music
Bob Dylan at 75
Paul Simon at 75
It Was 50 Years Ago Today: 1967 in Context, Album as Art and Top 40 Radio
1969: Through the Lens of Song
THEATER and FILM
George Gershwin’s Musicals: The Road to Porgy and Bess
The American Musical as Opera – from Porgy and Bess to Rent
Music for the Theatre: The American Musical and the 20th Century
Gershwin at 100
Sondheim at 85
The Theater of Leonard Bernstein: from Fancy Free and On the Town to Mass and The White House Cantata
The Theater of Stephen Sondheim, Parts I & II (two semesters, 24 weeks)
Kurt Weill at 100
Weill & Sondheim: Modernists in the Theatre
The Cradle Will Rock: Politics and the American Musical Theater
Music for Movies: Composers and Songwriters from Satie to Glass
The Theater of Gershwin & Weill: New York and Berlin, 1920-1935 (two semesters, 18 weeks)