PhD Columbia University

222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel:(716) 645-2765 x1275
fax: (716) 645-3824
email:  jcurrie@buffalo.edu
 

Selected Courses and Seminars Taught

Graduate Seminars:

• Enlightened Postmodernity: Music and Pluralism, Then and Now
• Towards Emancipation: Schoenberg, “Atonality,” and the Freedom in Music
• Symphonic Commodities: From Failure to Catastrophe (1848-1918)
• Narratives of the Symphonic: From the Public Sphere to 1848
• Beethoven’s Late Style: Classicism, Enlightenment, and Beyond
• “Opera or Not”
• Fugal Composition (individual tutorials in writing fugues)

Undergraduate Lecture Series

• Western Music History Survey II: 1750-Present
• Music and the Enlightenment
• Music and Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
• The Symphony
• Orchestral Literature
• “Opera or Not”
• Understanding Music: An Introduction
• Masterpieces of Western Art Music
• Introduction to Music Literature