Selected Topics Seminar (535-0-2)

Topic

History of the Conservatory

Instructors

Andrew J. Talle
847/491-7228
RCMA 4-133
Office Hours: by appointment
Coordinator, musicology program. Andrew Talle '95 studied at Northwestern from 1990-1995, earning a bachelor’s degree in cello performance as a student of Hans Jørgen Jensen, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees in linguistics. From 1995-2003, he was a PhD student at Harvard University, earning master’s and doctoral degrees in musicology. Dr. Talle spent one year lecturing at Harvard before moving to Baltimore in 2004 to join the musicology faculty at the Peabody Conservatory. In 2011, he was named a Gilman Scholar of the Johns Hopkins University, a distinction reserved for fewer than 20 faculty members across all nine divisions. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 2017.

Meeting Info

RCMA 1-164: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course will investigate the history of schools of music from ancient times to the present. We will examine archival materials and published texts from a variety of places (Ancient Sumer, Paris, London, Leipzig, Oberlin, Boston, Hanoi). We on will also study the history of Bienen School of Music on the basis of archival materials here at Northwestern. Enrolled students will not be required to purchase any textbooks for the course but may need to acquire digital images of some archival materials for use in their final projects. Prices are difficult to predict but are unlikely to exceed $150.