Courses

Undergraduate Courses (selected)

Freshman Seminar. Sound, Image, Movement, Meaning: Experiments in Multimedia (Spring 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2003).

Freshman Seminar. Silence, Noise, Sound, and Music: Art And/As Everyday Experience (Fall 2011, Fall 2013).  For text/video feature click here.

Freshman Seminar. Everyday Enchantment: Blurring the Boundary Between Art and Life. (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.)

Music 105. Music Theory Through Performance and Composition (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2012).

Music 106. Music Theory Through Performance and Composition (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2009, Spring 2013).

Music 242. Music After Modernism. (Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024.)

Music 247. Cultural Appropriation in the Arts.  (Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.)

Music 252. Visionaries, Outsiders, Charlatans and Cranks (Spring 2002).

Mus280. Drama Queens: Voicing Women (And Others) On Stage.  In collaboration with Wendy Heller (Fall 2013).

Music 210. Beginning Workshop in Music Composition. (Spring 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Fall 2024.)

Music 308. Composing for Shakuhachi. In collaboration with Riley Lee. (Spring 2016.)

Music 310. Advanced Workshop in Music Composition (Fall 2010).

Music 496. Princeton Atelier: Movement for Musicians.  In collaboration with Kate Weare (Fall 2011).

Graduate Courses (selected)

Music 500.  Prose Writing for Composers (Fall 2012).

Music 518.  Music Writing by Non-specialists.  In collaboration with Scott Burnham (Spring 2014).

Mus 533. Seminar in Analysis: “Hermeneutics, Musical Analysis, and Composition: Can They Mix?” (Spring 2008).

Music 534. Ends and Means: Issues in Composition.

  • “Autobiography and Masquerade” (Spring 2002).
  • “Composing for Shakuhachi” (Spring 2012).

Music 537. Points of Focus in Twentieth-Century Music. “Borders and Boundaries” (Fall 2004).

Music 545. Contexts of Composition.  Topic: “Issues in Performance.” In collaboration with Rinde Eckert. (Spring 2009).

Music 548. Creative Practice in Cultural Perspective.

  • “Cultivating a Humane Arts Practice” (Fall 2020).
  • “Crossing Cultures in Arts Practice” (Fall 2021).
  • “The Use and Abuse of Music” (Fall 2024).