Review Essay of Hamilton: An American Musical

Recently, international media outlets have celebrated São Paulo for its cosmopolitan musical output and its vibrant street art scenes. That discourse connected the city other generative periods in the histories of so-called “global cities,” such as New York of the 1970s. In those cities, the simultaneous developments of multiple creative scenes…[Read more]

An introduction to the analysis and interpretation of European classical music from 1827 to the present. The focus is on music of Europe, in particular of France, Germany, and Italy, but thanks to the vagaries of colonialism and imperialism we will also direct our attention towards countries where the musical traditions of Western Europe spread,…[Read more]

This seminar investigates musical performances of the past in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ranging from Anton Webern’s famous transcription of a Bach fugue to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical Hamilton, we will seek to explore how compositional practices in the twentieth century drew inspiration from a range of historical sources, and…[Read more]