(Pedagogy) The intent of this course is to provide an opportunity for students to develop a greater understanding of the unique developmental issues of children with special needs and how these issues affect learning in arts classrooms including visual arts, music, drama, movement settings. This course includes an introduction to disabilities and basic diagnosis used in school settings as well as adaptations necessary to provide a successful learning environment.
(Research) An examination of research studies and strategies for conducting research in the arts and humanities.
(Research) An examination of traditional and alternative strategies for assessing art objects and artistic performances, knowledge of the arts, and attitudes toward the arts.
(Pedagogy) Overview of appropriate interactive practices, environmental design, and curriculum planning for young children from birth through age 7. Includes observations of exemplary teaching as well as practicum experience.
(Pedagogy) For pre-service and in-service teachers of young children interested in integrative pedagogy focused on children's engagement with music, art, movement, and dramatic play. Creative expression is explored within cultural, expressive, developmental, and curricular contexts through personal reflection, observation, and instructional design.
(Pedagogy) Everyone is welcome to explore their own singing as we study choral music and group singing in various ensemble settings. We will address healthy singing with an emphasis on the developing voice and the process of singing with vocal goals, creative repertoire choice and developmental musical goals, and a student-centered approach for rehearsals and planning with engagement goals.
(Pedagogy) Understanding the principles and practices of creating and teaching digitally with synthesizers, MIDI and computers, and emphasizing the application to music education, studios and K-12 classrooms.
(Pedagogy) This course will examine teaching and learning in the context of instrumental music. It will serve as an overview of theoretical and philosophical constructs of instrumental music pedagogy. The resulting practices inform our knowledge of teaching through the process of learning instruments in a small group setting. Focus will be on the years students typically begin the learning of wind, brass, and percussion instruments in schools, around the age of 10, through intermediate and advanced levels in middle and high school. Fundamental to our approach will be the development of lesson planning that puts the student at the center of her learning experiences. Not content with the traditional master/apprentice model, we will seek opportunities to improvise and create, allowing students even in the early stages to assume some degree of control over how they make music and what they choose to play. Questioning techniques in the instrumental lesson setting will encourage reflection on action that results in a broadening, not just of skills, but of the kind of reflective thought that is at the heart of educative experiences. Activities and projects in class will center around developing appropriately sequenced lesson plans, understanding the unique characteristics of instruments of various families, and put all class members in the dual role of teacher and student.
(Pedagogy) Focus on conducting strategies, rehearsal techniques, and performance programming for instrumental and choral groups encountered in K-12 schooling. Emphasis on preparation for musical teaching through score study, development of non-verbal communicative skills, and attention to group engagement. Final projects may focus either on band, orchestra, choral, or K-6 repertoire.
(Performance) For music majors only. The study and performance of chamber works from the Baroque through contemporary periods.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information. Hours arranged at mutually convenient times between student and instructor. Goals will be decided at initial meeting for the term. Written permission from the Music Education Program, Room 520A Horace Mann, required. With permission of advisor, students may register continuously for this course up to five semesters total.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
For Music majors only. Professional activities in the field under the supervision of a member of the Music Education Program faculty.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Beginner / Advanced Beginner students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For music majors only. For instrumental and vocal majors, a course designed for performance by chamber ensembles. Repertoire determined by registration. Public concert performances each semester.
(Performance) Open to all interested in singing. Public concert performances each semester. Repertoire determined by registration.
M.A. candidates who are student teaching must complete a minimum of 30 points. A variety of supervised teaching experiences (preK-6), supplemented by conferences, evaluation, and seminars. The student completes 200 hours in schools observing, assisting, teaching, and evaluating. Required of those seeking state certification in music in New York State and other states.
M.A. candidates who are student teaching must complete a minimum of 30 points. A variety of supervised teaching experiences (secondary), supplemented by conferences, evaluation, and seminars. The student completes 200 hours in schools observing, assisting, teaching, and evaluating. Required of those seeking state certification in music in New York State and other states.
(Research) For Music majors only. Research and independent study under the direction of a member of the Music and Music Education Program faculty.
(Pedagogy) An examination of the historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological bases of music education, emphasizing the implications for the development of curriculum, policy, and administrative leadership.
(Pedagogy) Prerequisite: A&HM 5022. For private and group music teachers. Developmentally appropriate strategies and materials for instrumental instruction, integrating improvisation, composition, movement, singing, and ensemble playing.
(Research) Prerequisite for: A&HM 4021. Overview of significant issues and current research regarding the development of musical skills and understandings in children through early adolescence. Includes observations of children's spontaneous music-making.
(Research) This course offers a complete study of the singing voice including investigation and application of recent research in voice production and pedagogy. We will examine research and address practical skills and special interests such as choral singing, the young voice, CCM styles of singing, and vocal health. A diagnosis of vocal condition will be followed by the design of a process for effective change. Those who are interested in the research aspect of this topic must enroll for 3 points. Those who are interested in the more practical applications of the course can enroll for either 2 or 3 points.
(Pedagogy) This course investigates the concept of student-centered learning, with emphasis on composition and improvisation. Students will design open-ended lesson plans and practice creative teaching. Portfolio assessment allows students to design projects that are personally meaningful and justify individual growth. Diversity is encountered through readings, blogs, discussion, and a broad range of musical texts. Collaborative and creative learning processes are explored as means to enlarge content knowledge and to reflect increasingly multicultural and anti-racist music classrooms.
(Music Literacies) This course investigates a diverse range of musical styles across multiple histories and traditions. Musical analysis emphasizes both traditional and multimodal interpretations. Students compose collaboratively to demonstrate knowledge and explore new meanings. Song writing assignments are woven together to produce one-act operas. Course emphasizes the acquisition and application of diverse musical skills. Collaborative and creative learning processes are explored as means to enlarge content knowledge and curricular possibilities to reflect increasingly pluralistic and multicultural music classrooms.
(Pedagogy) This course is an exploration of the influential philosophical texts that inform music teaching and learning. Topics and activities involve the examination of educational and aesthetic philosophies and practice theories from critical and multicultural perspectives.
(Pedagogy) Specific demonstrations with new music technology emphasizing the development of creative strategies for music education at various levels.
(Research) Prerequisite A&H 5001. Required for Ed.M. and Ed.D. students. This course develops students' ability to analyze research journals and to summarize research in music education. Students write a synthesis of research in an area of music education.
(Musicianship) An exploration of musical diversity through cross-cultural readings, musical analysis, critical listening, composition, improvisation, and performance, with a focus on culturally-specific concepts and transmission.
(Music literacies / musicianship) An examination of current practices in the music industry and music education, as well as the historical, psychological, and sociological bases of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the implications on the careers of K-12 music educators, performing artists, music artist managers, and music education advocates. Professional tools for developing teaching studios, business planning, and self-promotion will be used to create digital footprints tied individually toward career goals.
(Music Literacies) For students of singing, accompanying, and coaching. Offers performing and teaching command of representative literature, techniques of interpretation and presentation; German, Italian, and French diction for singers.
For Music majors only. Co-requisite: simultaneous registration for applied music instruction or special permission. The student will create and perform a recital. Along with selection of repertoire chosen with advisor, the student will secure a date, design programs and flyers, and arrange for any advertising, personnel, and rehearsals. Group (chamber) works are accepted, as well as children's programs, or solo programs reflecting the individuality of performers. Suggested time-frame is 30-60 minutes.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information . Hours arranged at mutually convenient times between student and instructor. Goals will be decided at initial meeting for the term. Written permission from the Music and Music Education Program, Room 520A Horace Mann, required. For intermediate and advanced Music majors only. With permission of advisor, students may register continuously for this course up to five semesters total.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
For Music majors only. Professional activities in the field under the supervision of a member of the Music Education Program faculty.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Performance) For Intermediate / Advanced students at TC and Columbia schools. Permission required. Ten total hours of one-on-one instruction arranged at a mutually agreeable time. Visit the Music Education website for a registration form or email musiced@tc.edu for more information.
(Research) For Music majors only. Research and independent study under the direction of a member of the Music and Music Education Program faculty.
(Pedagogy) Major issues relating to the curriculum, instruction, and administration of programs of Music and Music Education in colleges and universities.
(Pedagogy) We will examine studio teaching (applied music) over the semester. We will review recent research in the field and address practical pedagogical skills including learning goals and outcomes, curriculum and repertoire issues, and rapport and communication. We will look to define effective teaching in a student-centered environment, observing the tension that arises between the traditional master-apprentice model and a student-centered environment. As such, you will be reviewing your own teaching and your peers via a video platform.
(Research) Meant to prepare and support doctoral research, the course involves reviewing and critiquing sample interview studies, designing and implementing data collection using various interview techniques, and coding and analyzing data.
The student will create and perform a recital. Along with selection of repertoire chosen with advisor, the student will secure a date, designing programs and flyers, and arrange for any advertising, personnel, and rehearsals. Group (chamber) works are accepted, as are children's programs or solo programs reflecting the individuality of performers. Suggested time-frame is 30-60 minutes.
This course is designed to allow students who are either interested in teaching at the college level or those already doing so an opportunity to observe and reflect upon this practice. All students enrolled will be observing a teacher/mentor in the context of a weekly classroom OR examining your own teaching. Originally designed for new college teachers with limited classroom experience, this course may also accommodate the experienced teacher who wishes to further his/her insight into classroom teaching.
Permission required from advisor and sign-up in the Music Education Program (520A Horace Mann) is also required. For Music majors only. Music doctoral candidates will identify their area of research interest and narrow their dissertation topic. An additional 40-50 hours of out-of-classroom work is required. Weekly approximation of 40 hours that is spent on: 20 hours of literature review including current literature searches of dissertations, and books, library investigations into articles of interest. Additionally, records must be kept of all resources and summaries of articles/books/dissertations. 10 hours of developing research questions, a problem statement, and methodologies. 10 hours of writing the document including background, introduction, and synthesis of all the above-mentioned details.
This advanced seminar is for students at the dissertation level. Emphasis is on areas of research concentration for the purpose of critiquing work while considering the implications for music education.
For Music majors only. Permission required from advisor and sign-up in the Music Education Program (520A Horace Mann) is also required. Research and independent study under the direction of a member of the Music Education faculty. Different sections will be offered for specific subject areas. Each section will require subject's specific prerequisites.
Permission required from advisor, and sign-up in the Music Education Program (520A Horace Mann) is also required. Research and independent study under the direction of a faculty member in Music Education.
Permission required from advisor, and sign-up in the Music Education Program (520A Horace Mann) is also required. For Music majors only. A required group tutorial for music doctoral students to help develop or refine topics of inquiry for research. The teaching format is flexible and may include faculty/student presentations, group discussions, and critiques. Preparation and presentation of dissertation proposal for approval. Students may register for a maximum of two terms.
Permission required from advisor, and sign-up in the Music Education Program (520A Horace Mann) is also required. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations for music majors only. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. For requirements, see section in catalog on Continuous Registration for Ed.D. degree.
Program Director: Jeanne Goffi-Fynn
Contact Person: Malika Amraoui
Phone: (212) 678-3285 Fax: (212) 678-4048
Email: musiced@tc.edu