Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology

Margaret Notley

Fall 2002

Students will be asked to consider various kinds of meaning in chamber music with piano. These can be divided roughly into three, at times overlapping categories: sociological, formal—often with emphasis on composers’ intentions—and critical/speculative. Since one objective is to foster the development of analytic skills, students will be required to work closely with a number of scores. As always in graduate courses in musicology, a larger goal will be to encourage students to think critically about how they carry out their own work.