CP 03310332 Junior Orchestration
1 hr weekly/1 credit per semester Arranging and writing for orchestra.
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
- Prerequisite
- CP0231-0232 or the equivalent.
Manhattan School of Music · Courses
CP
15 courses with the subject CP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CP 0421Undergraduate
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 0422Undergraduate Form and
Analysis 2 2 hrs weekly/2 credits/Spring semester Offered in alternating years This course is a continuation of CP0421. This semester we will explore late 20th and early 21st century works, by figures famous and lesser known, in an effort to understand how pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, and articulation interact to create musical structure, and to formulate basic concepts of how formal coherence can be achieved in music. (Offered in alternate years).
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 1300Living in Sound
2 hrs weekly/2 credits/Spring semester Offered in alternating years Did you know there is no such thing as an ear lid? The fraction of information lost with a blink is not lost on the ear. Current archeoacoustic studies have shown that prehistoric people navigated caves by using sound as sonar. This means our ears have the capacity to distinguish between the different densities of substances, the volumes of spaces and C ourse De scrip tions 109
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 1500Tuning Systems and
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 1600Experimental Indeterminate
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 17201730 Electronic Music for
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 1999Composition Forum
1.5 hrs weekly/1 credit per semester This course is designed for all composition students at MSM and includes student analysis and discussion of their own works, critical analysis of contemporary works recently performed in NYC, guest appearances by visiting composers, master classes, discussions of notation, lectures on advanced instrumental and vocal techniques, notation, score and part preparation, and the life of a composer after graduation. Required of all Composition Students, Undergraduate and Graduate. CP0131-0132 Freshman
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 21712172 Analysis & Aesthetics
3 hrs weekly/3 credits per semester The fall semester of this course discusses the concept of time and musical architecture (meta- architecture and global architecture). In addition, articles on aesthetics are being read and discussed in reference to current aesthetic topics. The spring semester of this course discusses the musical architecture (local and organic architecture), as well as musical material, followed by a section on structural listening. In addition, articles on aesthetic are being read and discussed in reference to current aesthetic topics.
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 21812182 Score Reading Seminar
2 hrs weekly/2 credits per semester An in-depth study of score-reading for composers, from string quartets to symphonic literature. An adjunct to conducting, it aids the understanding of clefs, transposed instruments and contemporary scores. CP2201-2202 Advanced
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 26002601 Electronic Music for
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- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 26212622 Advanced Electronic
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 2812Composing for (and with) the
Voice 2 2 hrs weekly/2 credits/Spring semester This course is an expansion of Composing for (and with) the Voice 1, which focuses on solo voice. In this class, students will write for multiple voices and for voice in dramatic contexts. Voice 1.
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
- Prerequisite
- CP2811 Composing for (and with) the
CP 4000Composition Lessons (Junior/
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
CP 6000Composition Lessons
(Master of Music) 1 hr weekly/5 credits per semester For 1st and 2nd year graduate students accepted into the Master of Music in Composition program only. Student are entitled to the equivalent of fourteen (14) one-hour lessons with their major teacher each semester. A jury is required to be performed in May each year. Specific jury requirements are detailed in the Composition Department Handbook. Students work on original compositions, including solo, chamber, and orchestral music, vocal and instrumental music, acoustic and electronic music, concert and non-concert music (e.g. installations) from both technical and aesthetic perspectives. During the 2nd year, students work on their orchestral thesis or an alternate project.
- Subject
- CP
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2028
- Source
- www.msmnyc.edu
Source: Manhattan School of Music's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61