Selected Graduate Courses Taught:

  • Analyzing Popular Music on its Own Terms

  • Dissonance, Cacophony, and Noise

  • Music and Language

  • Song from Schubert to the Present

  • Approaches to the 20th-Century Canon

  • Schenkerian Analysis

  • Analytical Techniques

  • Graduate Music Theory Review

Selected Undergraduate Music Theory Courses Taught:

  • Music Theory Sequence, including ear training (4 levels, incl. post-1900)

  • Modal and Tonal Counterpoint (2 levels)

  • Form and Analysis (2 levels)

  • Arranging for Voice and Instruments

  • Rudiments of Music Theory

  • Honors Seminar on Timbre

  • How Music Works

  • Supervised Research Tutorials in Acoustics

  • Supervised Research in Set Theory

 Selected Undergraduate Contemporary Music Studies Courses Taught:

  • History and Literature of Music III

  • African American Popular Music

  • Rock Styles Since 1955

  • Artists and Audiences

  • Introduction to Electroacoustic Music

  • The Electronic Avant-Garde

  • The Album

  • Punk and the Making of Self

  • Gothic: The Hidden and the Grotesque in Music, Media, and Literature

  • The Music of David Bowie

  • Writing the Hit Song / Songwriting

  • Advanced Songwriting Seminar