French Monophonic and Polyphonic Music and Song, c. 1200
Notation of Polyphonic Music, c. 1400-1530
Music and Society, c. 1500
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Orlando di Lasso and His Time
Claudio Monteverdi
The Operas of Monteverdi
Schütz and His Time
The Operas of Handel
Music and Rhetoric from the Theorists
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos: Genesis and Composition
Bach's B-Minor Mass and the Parody Procedure
The Early Concertos of Mozart
Mozart in Paris
Wagner's Ring
Mahler and Myth Creation in Musicology
Music and Narrative
Music and Representation
Music and Literature: Intersections and Reciprocal Interventions
The Idea of Program Music: Aesthetics, Compositional and Analytical Issues
The Madam Butterfly Myth in Literature, Film and Music (team taught interdisciplinary seminar)
Vienna 1900-1920
Topics in Early Modernism
Issues of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modernism
Twentieth-Century Opera
Quotation in Twentieth-Century Music and Arts