- MUHL 578: 20th Century Music Survey. Spring 2001. Basic graduate
survey course of the 20th-century music developments, techniques, styles, and composers from 1890 to the present.
- MUHL 570: Introduction to Graduate Study. Spring 2001, Fall 2000.
Also taught in the Fall 1999. Core graduate course - bibliography, databases, writing style, formatting of term papers, research methods, etc.
- Music from 1750 to the Present (MUHL 280b), Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000. Second-year undergraduate course in music history. Period covered: music from ca.1870 to the present, major composers, aesthetic trends, compositional techniques.
- Graduate Seminar: Polish Identity in Music (MUHL 688), Spring 1999.
An overview of distinct approaches to expressing national identity in music, with studies of the anthems and their usage, folklore and its quotation, national dance forms; examples from the Chopin, Szymanowski, Górecki, Bacewicz, Tansman, Szymanski.
- Music from 1750 to the Present (MUHL 280a), Fall 1998.
Second-year undergraduate course in music history. Period covered: music from 1750 to ca.1870; major composers, aesthetic trends, compositional techniques.
- Special Studies in the 20th Century Music (MUHL 588). Spring 1997. "Three East-European Composers: Bartók, Bacewicz, Lutosławski" An in-depth exploration of common issues in the compositional aesthetics of three different artists, (folk music, responses to Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, neoclassicism). The course had a web page, with student papers posted.
- Women in Music (MUHL 428), Fall 1999.
New course in the USC undergraduate curriculum, cross-listed with the College of Letters Arts and Sciences. A survey of women's contributions to the history of music through composition and performance.
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