Fall 2018 Courses
posted
Aug
13,
2018
The Music Department is offering a wide range of courses this fall, including several featured and new electives.
Music Theory News
Maeve Sterbenz Appointed Scholar-in-Residence at the San Francisco Ballet
posted
Aug
16,
2018
Postdoctoral Music Theory Lecturer Maeve Sterbenz has been appointed Scholar-in-Residence at the San Francisco Ballet.
William Mason appointed Assistant Professor at Wheaton College
posted
May
17,
2018
William Mason has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts.
Galen DeGraf Defends Dissertation
posted
May
15,
2018
Congratulations to Galen DeGraf, a Ph.D candidate in Music Theory, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Navigating Musical Periodicities: Modes of Perception and Types of Temporal Knowledge," on May 14th!
CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2018!
posted
May
15,
2018
The Columbia University Department of Music extends heartfelt congratulations to our 2018 graduates.
SPRING 2018 Courses
posted
Jan
10,
2018
The Music Department is offering a wide range of courses this semester, including several featured and new electives.
New Recording and Music Video
posted
Dec
6,
2017
Peter Susser’s Cello Suite (2016) was recorded by Laura Usiskin (Columbia/Juilliard 2008) as part of her “Reimagining Bach” solo cd.
Benjamin Steege Publishes Articles in Music & Letters and History of Humanities
posted
Oct
25,
2017
Benjamin Steege has published two articles: "Antipsychologism in Interwar Musical Thought: Two Ways of Hearing Debussy," in Music & Letters and "Between Race and Culture: Hearing Japanese Music in Berlin," in History of Humanities.
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow/Lecturer Position
posted
Sep
1,
2017
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointment will be at the rank of Mellon Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, for a period of two years to begin July 1, 2018.
Paula Harper and Michael Weinstein-Reiman Present at Feminist Theory and Music 14
posted
Aug
30,
2017
PhD candidates Paula Harper (HM) and Michael Weinstein-Reiman (Theory) presented papers on Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj at the international biennial Feminist Theory and Music conference at San Francisco State University, July 27-30. Congratulations, Paula and Michael!
Featured New and Elective Courses FALL 2017
posted
Aug
23,
2017
This semester, the Department of Music is offering courses on Beethoven, Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video; and Transpacific Musicology: Monsters, Princesses, Bombs at Sea. Graduate seminars include Music and Early Modernism, 1880-1920; Ruth Crawford Seeger; and Analysis of Musical Form.
Music Faculty and Grad Students Receive CAETR Grant
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Columbia Music faculty and graduate students, led by Prof. Ellie Hisama, have been awarded a grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University, for a project entitled For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
posted
May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. BENJAMIN HANSBERRY!
posted
May
9,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Benjamin Hansberry, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in music theory, Phenomenon and Abstraction: Coordinating Concepts in Music Theory and Analysis, on May 3, 2017.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. MAEVE STERBENZ!
posted
May
9,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Maeve Sterbenz, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in music theory, Moving with Music: Approaches to the Analysis of Movement-Music Interactions, on May 9, 2017.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. ORIT HILEWICZ!
posted
Apr
27,
2017
The Department warmly congratulates Dr. Orit Hilewicz, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation in music theory, Listening to Ekphrastic Musical Compositions, on April 26, 2017.
Ellie Hisama named the 2017 Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Program Speaker
posted
Apr
17,
2017
Professor Ellie Hisama has been named the 2017 speaker in the Robert Samels Visiting Scholar Program, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.
William Mason appointed Visiting Instructor at Oberlin Conservatory
posted
Apr
10,
2017
William Mason has been appointed Visiting Instructor of Music Theory at Oberlin Conservatory for the '17-'18 academic year.