Classroom Courses for Non-Majors

Several music courses have no prerequisite at all, while others require some ability to read music, which may be learned concurrently via enrollment in MUSIC 1100, Elements of Notation (a 1-credit course that lasts for only four weeks, at the start of each semester). If in doubt about whether or not you meet the prerequisite, contact the instructor, preferably during the pre-enrollment period. Courses are for 3 credits, unless noted otherwise.

Not every course listed is offered every year. Square brackets around a course mean that it is not offered in 2009-10.  Click here for course descriptions.

Courses that have no prerequisite
1100 Elements of Music Notation (1 credit; F or Sp)
1311 [Popular Music in America: A Historical Survey]
1101 Fundamentals of Music (Sp)
1301 Introduction to World Music I: Africa and the Americas (Sp)
1302 [Introduction to World Music II: Asia]
1312 History of Rock Music (Sp)
1313 Survey of Jazz (F)
2241 Opera (Sp)
2111 Physics of Musical Sound; see PHYS 1204 (Sp)
4511 [Early Dance: Baroque (1 credit)]

Courses that have a prerequisite of ability to read music, concurrent enrollment in Music 1100, or permission of instructor
1105 Introduction to Music Theory (F)
1201 [Hildegard to Handel]
1202 Monteverdi to Minimalism (F)
2221 Bach and Handel (Sp)
2222 Haydn and Mozart (F)
2223 [Beethoven]
2224 [Mozart in History, History in Mozart]
2231 [Musical Romantics]
3245 Words and Music; see GERST 3600 (Sp)
2242 [The Orchestra and its Music]
1465 Computing in the Arts; see CS 1650 (F)

Courses that require permission of instructor (this requirement has to do with limitations of instruments, equipment, or space)
1341 Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures (F and Sp)

2501 Discovering Hip-Hop: Research and the Cornell Hip-Hop Collection (F)
1421 Introduction to Computer Music (F)
2421 [Computers in Music Performance]
3421 [Scoring the Moving Image]
3431 Sound Design and Digital Audio; see THETR 3680 (F and Sp)
3441 [Interactive Performance Technology; see THETR 3690]