Graduate Review of Music History (400-0-1)
Instructors
Scott Douglas Paulin
s-paulin@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: E-mail Instructor
Scott D. Paulin is a musicology lecturer specializing in 20th-century topics including music and sound in film, popular genres, American music, and the history of recorded sound. Recipient, AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society for "On the Chaplinesque in Music: Studies in the Musical Reception of Charlie Chaplin." Author of articles published in books such as Music and Cinema (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) and Wagner and Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2010) and journals including American Music, Music and the Moving Image, Camera Obscura, and Spectator. Papers presented at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, International Musicological Society, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and International Association for the Study of Popular Music, among others.
Meeting Info
RCMA 1-172: Tues, Thurs 8:30AM - 9:50AM
Overview of class
This course will review the history of western art music with an overall aim of providing useful skills for the graduate careers and working lives of professional musicians. Beyond the goal of identifying and addressing students' areas of weakness in preparation for music-history comprehensive exams, our special focus will be the acquisition of pedagogy skills for the college-level teaching of music history, and most of the quarter's assignments (teaching demos, sample syllabi, etc.) will be designed to enhance students' experience in this area. In Winter 2025, the class will meet remotely, though a classroom will be available for students who wish to log in from campus.
Class Materials (Required)
Richard Taruskin and Christopher Gibbs, The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780190600228. Estimated cost from $55 for a rented digital copy to $169 for a new print copy.
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: Reserved for Doctor of Music Students and PhD Composition students.