MPP Weekly Announcements (May 1, 2012)
May 6, 2012
Spring Overlook Concerts Sponsored by the Riverside Park Fund
Orbit Brass Quintet of the Manhattan School of Music, Matt Gasiorowski, Leader
Featuring traditional and contemporary brass music
2PM, 116th Street Overlook (middle level of Riverside Park), FREE
May 6, 2012
Bluegrass and Klezmer Concert
6PM, Hillel (The Kraft Center, 606 W. 115th, 5th Floor Auditorium), FREE
May 11, 2012
counter)induction: Premieres by Undergraduate Composers
8PM, Austin E. Quigley Theatre (Lerner Hall 5th Floor), FREE
May 13, 2012
Spring Overlook Concerts Sponsored by the Riverside Park Fund
French Cookin' Blues Band, David "Doc" French, Leader
Featuring authentic Blues from the Delta to Chicago and New York, to Texas and Louisiana
2PM, 116th Street Overlook (middle level of Riverside Park), FREE
Alumna Profile: Lety ElNaggar (CC '11) Wins Fulbright Fellowship to Study Egyptian Music
The Department of Music warmly congratulates Ms. Lety ElNaggar, who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study music in Egypt during 2012-13. Lety graduated from Columbia College in 2011. While at Columbia, where she majored in Middle Eastern Studies, she was an active member of our Music Performance programs as a saxophonist and clarinetist, playing both jazz and classical music, as well as a student in several music classes. In 2010 she won the MPP's Dolan Prize to study nay (Arabic flute) with renowned nay virtuouso Bassam Saba, and also received a presitgious Kluge Independent Research Fellowship.
Lety was awarded the Fulbright grant to study nay performance within the contexts of classical and folkloric Egyptian music with masters at the "Academy of Arts" and “Makan Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts" in Cairo. Through Makan, Lety will also travel throughout the Egyptian countryside to observe and participate in festivals that still feature local live musicians. She plans to incorporate her studies into further composition and performance of jazz and crossover music genres.
World Music Ensembles for Fall 2012 -- Bluegrass, Gagaku, Hogaku, Middle Eastern, Klezmer, Latin! (MUSI V1625)
Course Information
For Fall 2012, the Department of Music and the Music Performance Program are pleased to offer six "World Music" ensembles, including Bluegrass, Klezmer, Japanese Gagaku/Hogaku (separate ensembles), Middle Eastern, and Latin groups. All four are offfered as 1 or 2 credit ensembles under the course number MUSI V1625. (Click on each section number to go to the associated Directory of Classes listing.)
NB: For most participants, these ensembles expect a year-long commitment (fall and spring semester registration) and hold auditions for new members ONLY in the Fall.
For more information on these ensembles, contact:
The CU Music Performance Program (Becky Lu, Program Coordinator)
Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12:00 to 5:00PM in 618 Dodge
Email: mpp@columbia.edu Phone: (212) 854-1257
Website: www.music.columbia.edu/mpp/
WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE-BLUEGRASS
Call Number: 64457 Points: 1-2
Notes: AUDITIONS REQUIRED & ARE IN FALL ONLY. SIGN UP IN 618 DODGE
Instructor: Jordan Shapiro
NEW SEMINAR: Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Popular Music Aesthetics (MUSI G9403, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music G9403
ADVANCED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SEMINAR: POPULAR MUSIC AESTHETICS
Call Number: 66547 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Kevin Fellezs (bio)
Click here to view the description and syllabus for this course. (PDF)
Advanced Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Caribbean New York (MUSI G9401, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music G9401
ADVANCED SEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I: CARIBBEAN NEW YORK
Call Number: 76972 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 9:00am-10:50am
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Christopher Washburne (bio)
NEW SEMINAR: Jazz and Film (MUSI G6200, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music G6200
JAZZ AND FILM
Section 001 Call Number: 27323 Points: 3
Day/Time: R 4:10pm-6:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: John Szwed (bio)
Proseminar in Historical Musicology (MUSI G6105, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music G6105
PROSEMINAR in HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY
Section 001 Call Number: 76924 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 4:10pm-6:00pm
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Karen Henson (bio)
Introduction to historical musicology; the history of the discipline, major areas of research, source materials, and methodological problems. Priority given to graduate students in Music. Permission of instructor required.
NEW COURSE: Field Methods and Techniques in Ethnomusicology (MUSI G4401, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music G4401
FIELD METHODS & TECHNIQUES in ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Section 001 Call Number: 84281 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 9:00am-10:50am
Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Christopher J Washburne (bio)
The goals of this course are practice-oriented. The end result will be short fieldwork-based project of approxiamtely 20 pages in length. In order to complete the paper, students will conduct fieldwork, read and synthesize relevant literatures, and think carefully about the questions in which they are interested and methods of addressing them through ethnographic inquiry.
This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Permission of the instructor is required.
African American Music (AFAS W3030/MUSI 83030, Fall 2012)
Course Information
AFAS3030/MUSI83030
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC
Call Number: 14597 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: To be announced
Instructor: Prof. Kevin Fellezs (bio)
What is "black music"? What do we mean when we say we like black music? We'll take a look at four important themes that have shaped what we mean when we say "black music" and may help us understand more deeply why we enjoy it and find it such a powerful reservoir of bodily pleasure, intellectual sophistication, and spiritual sustenance. What draws us to this music? In attempting to answer this question, we will be thinking through a number of keywords such as authenticity, representation, recognition, cultural ownership, appropriation, and origin(s). These concepts have structured the ways in which critics, musicians and audiences have addressed the various social, political and aesthetic contexts in which African American music has been composed (produced), performed (re-produced) and heard (consumed). In exploring the diversity of African American musical expression, we will question our assumptions about race, about music, and the links between the two. By taking a thematic approach, we will see how African American music has both shaped and been shaped by the social contexts in which it is created and performed. Our readings and discussions will encompass African American music from spirituals and work songs to bebop and hip hop, from Duke Ellington to N.W.A., from Bessie Smith to Stevie Wonder, from James Reese Europe to Bob Marley, all of which will help us explore the rich set of meanings black music has held in the Americas for over four hundred years.
Jewish Music in New York (MUSI V2030, Fall 2012)
Course Information
Fall 2012 Music V2030
JEWISH MUSIC IN NEW YORK
Section 001 Call Number: 23280 Points: 3
Day/Time: Mon/Wed 4:10-5:25
Location TBA
Instructor: Prof. Mark L. Kligman (link to HUC bio page)
This course will look at musical life of Jews in three broad contexts: art music, popular music, and non-European traditions. This will include liturgical, para-liturgical, folk, pop, rock and the growing practices that synthesize styles and genres. From the mid 1600s until today Jews immigrated from Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia to America. The music of Jews in New York is diverse, dynamic and eclectic. During the semester we will visit various venues and meet composers and performers and investigate the ongoing dialogue of preserving tradition and innovating new ideas to express and encounter Jewishness in NY today.
