Analyzing Popular Music after 2000

Harvard FAS

Course Description: How can music analysis inform the way we understand, listen to, and write about popular music? This course introduces tools and methods for studying features and compositional styles of popular music after 2000. Through weekly readings and aural skills exercises, students will become familiar with recent analytical approaches to song form, texture, rhythm & meter, instrumental and vocal timbre, sampling, and music videos. In weekly written work, students will conduct…