Professor: Rieko Aizawa

CRN Number: 10491

Course Number: CNSV 100 RA

Credits: 4

Professor: Edward Carroll

CRN Number: 10492

Course Number: CNSV 100 EC

Credits: 4

Professor: Adele Anthony and Gil Shaham

CRN Number: 10493

Course Number: CNSV 100 AA

Credits: 4

Professor: Demian Austin, Nicholas Schwarz, Sasha Romero

CRN Number: 10494

Course Number: CNSV 100 DA

Credits: 4

Professor: Eric Cha-Beach, Jason Treuting, Jason Haaheim

CRN Number: 10495

Course Number: CNSV 100 ECB

Credits: 4

Professor: Richard Cox

CRN Number: 10496

Course Number: CNSV 100 RC

Credits: 4

Professor: Sarah Cutler

CRN Number: 10497

Course Number: CNSV 100 SC

Credits: 4

Professor: Elaine Douvas, Alexandra Knoll, Ryan Roberts

CRN Number: 10498

Course Number: CNSV 100 ED

Credits: 4

Professor: Luo Sha Fang

CRN Number: 10499

Course Number: CNSV 100 LF

Credits: 4

Professor: Marc Goldberg

CRN Number: 10500

Course Number: CNSV 100 MG

Credits: 4

Professor: Marka Gustavsson

CRN Number: 10501

Course Number: CNSV 100 MG2

Credits: 4

Professor: Brian Hong

CRN Number: 10502

Course Number: CNSV 100 BH

Credits: 4

Professor: Keisuke Ikuma

CRN Number: 10503

Course Number: CNSV 100 KI

Credits: 4

Professor: Yi-Wen Jiang

CRN Number: 10504

Course Number: CNSV 100 YWJ

Credits: 4

Professor: Jindong Cai

CRN Number: 10505

Course Number: CNSV 100 JC

Credits: 4

Professor: Erica Kiesewetter

CRN Number: 10506

Course Number: CNSV 100 EK

Credits: 4

Professor: Alexandra Knoll

CRN Number: 10507

Course Number: CNSV 100 AK

Credits: 4

Professor: David Krakauer

CRN Number: 10508

Course Number: CNSV 100 DK

Credits: 4

Professor: Pascual Martinez Forteza

CRN Number: 10509

Course Number: CNSV 100 PMF

Credits: 4

Professor: Jeremy McCoy

CRN Number: 10510

Course Number: CNSV 100 JM

Credits: 4

Professor: Blair McMillen

CRN Number: 10511

Course Number: CNSV 100 BM

Credits: 4

Professor: Tara O'Connor

CRN Number: 10512

Course Number: CNSV 100 THO

Credits: 4

Professor: Daniel Phillips

CRN Number: 10513

Course Number: CNSV 100 DP

Credits: 4

Professor: Todd Phillips

CRN Number: 10514

Course Number: CNSV 100 TP

Credits: 4

Professor: Raman Ramakrishnan

CRN Number: 10515

Course Number: CNSV 100 RR

Credits: 4

Professor: Melissa Reardon

CRN Number: 10516

Course Number: CNSV 100 MR

Credits: 4

Professor: Ryan Roberts

CRN Number: 10517

Course Number: CNSV 100 RR2

Credits: 4

Professor: Marcus Rojas and Alec Mawrence

CRN Number: 10518

Course Number: CNSV 100 MR2

Credits: 4

Professor: Weston Sprott

CRN Number: 10523

Course Number: CNSV 100 WS

Credits: 4

Professor: Hugo Valverde-Villalobos and Barbara Jostlein Currie

CRN Number: 10524

Course Number: CNSV 100 HV

Credits: 4

Professor: Gilles Vonsattel

CRN Number: 10525

Course Number: CNSV 100 GV

Credits: 4

Professor: Peter Wiley

CRN Number: 10526

Course Number: CNSV 100 PW

Credits: 4

Professor: Terrence Wilson

CRN Number: 10527

Course Number: CNSV 100 TW

Credits: 4

Professor: Shai Wosner

CRN Number: 10528

Course Number: CNSV 100 SW

Credits: 4

Professor: Carmit Zori Rinehart

CRN Number: 10529

Course Number: CNSV 100 CZ

Credits: 4

Composition Tutorial

Professor: Jessie Montgomery  

Course Number: CNSV 102 JM

CRN Number: 10649

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course is for Conservatory composition majors  and consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory composition faculty.

Composition Tutorial

Professor: Missy Mazzoli  

Course Number: CNSV 102 MM

CRN Number: 10650

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course is for Conservatory composition majors  and consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory composition faculty.

Composition Tutorial

Professor: Joan Tower  

Course Number: CNSV 102 JT

CRN Number: 10651

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course is for Conservatory composition majors  and consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory composition faculty.

Composition Tutorial

Professor: George Tsontakis  

Course Number: CNSV 102 GT

CRN Number: 10652

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course is for Conservatory composition majors  and consists of 13 one-hour private lessons with members of the Bard College Conservatory composition faculty.

Secondary Piano

Professor: Erika Switzer  

Course Number: CNSV 104

CRN Number: 10653

Class cap: 10

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course develops technical and musical skills through weekly hour-long private piano lessons taught by the excellent pianists of the Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship. Students are graded based on the quality of preparation for lessons, attendance, and an end of the semester jury. Registration is open to Conservatory students at all levels of pianistic skill and experience. College students wishing to take secondary piano do so through the undergraduate music program.

Voice Lessons

Professor: Rufus Muller  

Course Number: CNSV 106 RM

CRN Number: 10654

Class cap: 5

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Voice Lessons

Professor: Teresa Buchholz

Course Number: CNSV 106 TB

CRN Number: 10655

Class cap: 5

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Voice Lessons

Professor: Lucy Fitz Gibbon  

Course Number: CNSV 106 LFG

CRN Number: 10656

Class cap: 5

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Chamber Music

Professor: Marka Gustavsson  

Course Number: CNSV 110

CRN Number: 10657

Class cap: 100

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Enrollment in this course is required of all Bard Conservatory performance undergraduates, after their first year fall semester in CNSV 108. Each student will be assigned to a chamber group or students may request their to play a specific piece, with colleagues who have also committed to the project. Requests must be sent to gustavss@bard.edu before August 15, and January 15. Rehearsal requirements should  include at least two weekly 90 min meetings, regular coaching to be arranged by the lesson scheduler, participation and attendance in weekly performance classes. Performance is required in one or more of the following concerts: the Chamber Music Marathon (Nov/April), noon concerts, student recitals. **Notes: Undergraduate students who have an exceptional need to reduce their workload may apply for a waiver for CNSV 110. Students must submit the online waiver form, and send an email notification to gustavss@bard.edu. The waiver must be approved before the end of the first week of classes. Waivers received later than the first week will not be considered. Students may request to audit Chamber Music CNSV 110 for 0 cr, however the workload remains the same as the credit bearing requirement.

Orchestral Training and Repertoire

Professor: Erica Kiesewetter  

Course Number: CNSV 112

CRN Number: 10658

Class cap: 100

Credits: 0

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center SSR

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This class will focus on training and performance of orchestral literature (standard and also unusual and contemporary). Bi-annual auditions help familiarize students with this process, and sectionals are held by members of the American Symphony orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and other faculty. Four programs a year including opera, and extra performances in major US cities and abroad. Maestro Leon Botstein is the music director, and guest conductors appear for two programs a year, in addition to Tan Dun and James Bagwell.

Production Techniques for Film Music

Professor: James Sizemore  

Course Number: CNSV 202

CRN Number: 10660

Class cap: 15

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Blum Music Center N210

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists: Music

This course will present the fundamentals of music technology, and the tools and techniques used to produce music for picture using sample libraries and digital audio workstations. Students will learn the fundamentals of digital audio, video, MIDI sequencing, and digital music notation through demonstrations and student projects. The course will culminate in the recording of a student’s original composition with live musicians. Students should possess a basic knowledge of music theory and should own or have access to a personal computer. The course will include a free temporary software license for Digital Performer and Sibelius software for the semester, as well as additional sample libraries free of charge. Students may also use other notation or sequencing software with Instructor approval. Students will need a basic understanding of Google Classroom.

Alexander Technique for Musicians

Professor: Alexander Farkas  

Course Number: CNSV 211

CRN Number: 10661

Class cap: 20

Credits: 1

Schedule/Location:

        -  

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

The Alexander Technique provides a way of teaching us how to re-connect with our own innate energies. For musicians this means discovering a way of performing with greater muscular ease, less accumulated fatigue and a less restrictive approach to technique. This course introduces both F. M. Alexander's principles and a new set of physical experiences suited to the musician's specific needs. The aim of the class will be learning how to apply the Technique to practice and performance situations. Students will have the opportunity to work with their instruments in class.

Am I the Drama?: Writing Opera in the 21st Century

Professor: Missy Mazzoli  

Course Number: CNSV 213

CRN Number: 10695

Class cap: 12

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     1:20 PM - 3:20 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. 210

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

A survey of opera, music theater and other dramatic musical forms from the perspective of the 21st-century artist, with a special focus on the composition of a short dramatic work for voice(s) and piano. Includes study of works written between 1940 and today by Philip Glass, Anthony Davis, Benjamin Britten, David T. Little, Ellen Reid, and Gabriela Lena Frank, among others. Students will complete small creative assignments throughout the semester and work one-on-one with singers in the Vocal Arts Program on original compositions. The course will culminate in a recorded public performance of new student works for voice and piano. Open to composition majors and students who have completed at least one music theory course. (This course is the natural extension of the course “Follow the Lieder: Writing for Voice in the 21st Century”, though that is not a pre-requisite for this course.)

Core Sequence Class II: Chromatic Harmony and Combined Species Counterpoint

Professor: Ryan McCullough  

Course Number: CNSV 240

CRN Number: 10662

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Blum Music Center N217

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

This course is a continuation of the material studied in CNSV 140. It covers the many possibilities of using non-diatonic tones in a key (i.e., chromaticism), spanning a variety of topics such as modal mixture, applied (i.e., secondary) dominants, the Phrygian 2 and the different forms of the augmented-sixth chords. This course also focuses upon the study of combined species counterpoint. In addition to understanding how combined-species patterns form the basis of diatonic sequences, the interaction between contrapuntal voice-leading techniques and genuine harmonic progressions will be clarified. Prerequisite: CNSV 140 or permission of the instructor.

Aural Skills IV

Professor: David Sytkowski  

Course Number: CNSV 309

CRN Number: 10663

Class cap: 12

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 104

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

The course aims to continue developing skills that were acquired from Aural Skills III. Topics covered include aural identification, sight-singing of increasingly complex rhythms and melodies, and multiple-voice dictation. Modulation and extended harmonic progressions will be covered in addition to general reinforcement of previously learned skills. It is recommended that this course and Aural Skills III be taken in the first two years of the Conservatory degree. A placement test will be offered each semester to determine each student's facility with the material.

Core Sequence Class III: Composition for Performers

Professor: Joan Tower  

Course Number: CNSV 330 A

CRN Number: 10664

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Blum Music Center HALL

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Core Sequence in Theory, Analysis, and Composition. The composition seminar is taught by the conservatory composition faculty Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, two of our most celebrated composers and teachers of composition. Students will produce several original compositions to be performed by themselves and others at a final concert. Exemption policy: Students can petition for exemption based on their having produced substantial original works. (Of course, those with an interest in composition will be unlikely to pass up the opportunity to study with two major figures in contemporary music.) Students must contact the instructor first before signing up for the class.

Core Sequence Class III: Composition for Performers

Professor: Joan Tower  

Course Number: CNSV 330

CRN Number: 10665

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Core Sequence in Theory, Analysis, and Composition. The composition seminar is taught by the conservatory composition faculty Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, two of our most celebrated composers and teachers of composition. Students will produce several original compositions to be performed by themselves and others at a final concert. Exemption policy: Students can petition for exemption based on their having produced substantial original works. (Of course, those with an interest in composition will be unlikely to pass up the opportunity to study with two major figures in contemporary music.) Students must contact the instructor first before signing up for the class.

Core Sequence Class IV: Conservatory Seminar

Professor: Peter Laki Ryan McCullough

Course Number: CNSV 332

CRN Number: 10666

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. 210

Distributional Area:

None   

Conservatory Seminar explores the intersection of music history, theory, and performance by concentrating on pieces from the conservatory orchestra’s recent repertoire, including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Strauss’s Salome, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and 3, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker as well as compositions being performed this semester.This We will address broad questions such as how these works were written and first received by audiences, the political and social context in which they were composed and understood, the relationship between the formal structure of the work and others of a similar general type, how the form of the work conveys meaning for particular sets of listeners, and how these meanings have evolved through time. The seminar also considers broader issues in the classical musical culture of our time, including the so-called Death of Classical Music, concert programming, and effective ways to speak and write about music for general audiences.

Senior Recital Seminar

Professor: Peter Laki Raman Ramakrishnan

Course Number: CNSV 403

CRN Number: 10667

Class cap: 20

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. CPS

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Students who are preparing for their degree recitals meet weekly to perform their recital repertoire for each other, and for members of the Conservatory faculty. In addition, the students conduct historical and analytical research into their repertoire, and write program notes that are printed and distributed to the audience the day of the recital, timetable permitting. Besides the weekly performance class, the seminar normally entails four or five individual meetings with the faculty member who assigns reading materials and supervises the writing of the program notes. The objective of the seminar is to give students an opportunity to become comfortable performing their recital repertoire, and to learn how to give each other constructive comments; they will also discuss and reflect on the music, and hone their writing styles.

Chinese Ensemble

Professor: . TBA  

Course Number: CNSV 118

CRN Number: 10668

Class cap: 10

Credits: 1

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. CPS

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Chinese Ensemble provides Chinese instrument majors large ensemble and chamber music experience with regular rehearsals and performance opportunities. Students work closely with the ensemble coach and their studio teachers to further develop their skills in ensemble playing, intonation, and musical expression through practical playing experience. At least one major Chinese Ensemble concert with the participation of all Chinese instrument majors will be performed each semester on campus, supplemented by other types of performance opportunities on and off campus throughout the year. Studio teachers assist the ensemble coach as well as performing in ensembles, allowing students to learn firsthand from the playing of more experienced musicians. Mixed ensembles including Western instruments are encouraged. The Chinese Ensemble program is further enriched by master classes and concerts by guest artists. Note: This course will be the US-China Music Institute equivalent to both the Conservatory Chamber Music and Orchestra requirements. Separate enrollment in Chamber Music or Orchestra is not required. This class is open to all students at Bard. If you are not conservatory students but want to take this class, please contact hlin@bard.edu for more information. This class can be either 1 or 0 credit depending on the individual student's needs. This class by default will be a non-credit class. If you would like to take this class as a 1 credit class, you must email hlin@bard.edu no later than the add/drop period.

Literature and Language of Chinese Music IV: Operatic Music

Professor: Xinyan Li  

Course Number: CNSV 226

CRN Number: 10669

Class cap: 12

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. 210

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Literature and Language of Chinese Music II: Instrumental Music

Professor: Xinyan Li  

Course Number: CNSV 126

CRN Number: 10670

Class cap: 12

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Bito Conservatory Bldg. 210

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Through the repertoire listening and score study, this course emphasizes the history, structure, orchestration, melodic and performance characteristics of Chinese instrumental music, including solo instrumental music, silk and bamboo ensemble music, as well as winds and percussion ensemble music. It also includes minority music from Mongolian, Uyghur, Dong, Miao, Yi, Dai, Naxi, Korean and Kinh, as well as contemporary chamber and orchestral masterpieces composed in the past 40 years.