Thinking and Writing About Music

Catalog description

Thinking and Writing About Music is a foundational course for the NYUAD Music Program that helps students to develop skills in writing and critical/analytical thinking about music as a sonic and social phenomenon. Students will be introduced to different approaches to thinking and communicating about music; ways of listening closely and analytically to musical sound; and selected themes in music studies, such as musical meaning and the intersection of music and politics. By the end of the semester, students are expected to have developed fluency in writing about music and musical phenomena, critical perspectives on music in society and culture, and a familiarity with questions and approaches in the various strands of music studies.