Music

2026–2027

82 courses

MUSI 0035Twenty-First Century Electronic and Computer Music Techniques
MUSI 0050Transformations in 20th and 21st Century Music
MUSI 0081Race and Place in British New Wave, K-Pop, and Beyond
MUSI 1006Musical Genius
MUSI 1111Elements of Musical Pitch and Time
MUSI 1137Western Philosophy in Four Operas 1600-1900
MUSI 1154Music and Celebrity from Orpheus to Gaga
MUSI 1172Funk: Black Dance Music in the Age of Liberation
MUSI 1175Listening to Music
MUSI 1185American Musical Theater History
MUSI 1190Yale Wind Ensemble
MUSI 1191Yale Glee Club
MUSI 1192Yale Symphony Orchestra
MUSI 1193Yale Jazz Ensembles
MUSI 2107Commercial and Popular Music Theory
MUSI 2121Modal Counterpoint: Analysis and Composition
MUSI 2122Vocal Counterpoint and Arranging
MUSI 2220The Performance of Chamber Music
MUSI 2221The Performance of Chamber Music
MUSI 2223Near Eastern and Balkan Ensemble
MUSI 2228Musical Theater Performance I
MUSI 2230Composing for Musical Theater
MUSI 2231Laptop Ensemble: Study and Performance
MUSI 2232Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble
MUSI 2240The Performance of Early Music
MUSI 239Literature and Music
MUSI 2480Music of South Asia
MUSI 2490Introduction to Sound Studies
MUSI 3200The Performance of Contemporary Music
MUSI 3220Composition I: Genre, Style and Techniques
MUSI 3221Composition II: Studio-Based Music Production
MUSI 3228Introduction to Conducting
MUSI 3229Intermediate Conducting
MUSI 3230Musical Theater Composition II
MUSI 3240Analyzing, Directing, and Performing Early Opera
MUSI 3245Lessons
MUSI 3350Medieval and Renaissance Music
MUSI 3351European Music in the Early Modern World
MUSI 3478American Neighborhood Musics
MUSI 3481Jazz in Transition, 1960–2000
MUSI 4102Writing (About) Music: Music and Meaning
MUSI 4105Improvising and Composing at the 18th-Century Keyboard
MUSI 4107Commercial and Popular Music Theory II
MUSI 4203The Media of Sound: Experimental Approaches to Sound Recording and Media Design
MUSI 4220Composition III: Texture and Dialogue in Chamber Music
MUSI 4221Composition IV: Genre, Form and Techniques
MUSI 4222Sound Art
MUSI 4223Song, Power, and Identity: Reclaiming Truths
MUSI 4225Electronic Instrument Design
MUSI 4228Computer Music: Algorithmic and Heuristic Composition
MUSI 4231The Spirit of the Original: Adaptation Lab
MUSI 4240Special Topics in Performance Studies
MUSI 4245Advanced Lessons
MUSI 4246Lessons in Gospel
MUSI 4249Jazz Improvisation
MUSI 4330Musicality and Meritocracy
MUSI 4364American Opera Today: Explorations of a Burgeoning Industry
MUSI 4365Introduction to Russian & Soviet Music, 1800-1950
MUSI 4372Stephen Sondheim and the American Musical Theater Tradition
MUSI 4405The Sound of Freedom: Seeing Contemporary South Africa Through Sound
MUSI 4410Musical Ethnographies
MUSI 4481Electronic Dance Music
MUSI 4484Music as Education
MUSI 4485Musical Pan-Africanisms
MUSI 4995Individual Study
MUSI 4996The Senior Recital
MUSI 4997The Senior Project in Composition
MUSI 4998The Senior Project in Musical Theater Composition
MUSI 4999The Senior Essay
MUSI 5400Special Topics in Performance Studies: Sounding Dance
MUSI 5510Musical Ethnographies
MUSI 5869Musicality and Meritocracy
MUSI 6980Proseminar: Music Theory
MUSI 7010Music Notation and/as Theory
MUSI 7130Topics in Music, Gender, and Sexuality
MUSI 7200History of Theory I
MUSI 8120Directed Studies: Ethnomusicology
MUSI 8140Directed Studies: History of Music
MUSI 8370Opera, Media, Technologies
MUSI 9140Directed Studies: Theory of Music