Cornell
I attended Cornell University from 1992 to 1996, earning a B.A. in music theory and composition. While at Cornell, I was more interested in figuring out how music works than writing musicological papers, so I don’t really think that the papers I wrote were all that good. However, I seemed to get fairly good marks, so there wasn’t a whole lot of incentive to do much better at the time. I had the extremely bad habit back then of not referencing any sources, but that is partially a function of the fact that I never really used too many sources, especially with the theory papers.
Back when I was in college, computers and the internet were a lot different than they are today, so there aren’t too many graphs or supporting materials besides just the texts themselves. What supplemental materials I used were not in digital form, so I haven’t scanned them into the computer yet; if I still have them, I will try to add them to the .pdf documents when time allows, although that’s a pretty low priority project.
Papers on Music Theory:
- Music 252: Essay: “Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 16″
- Music 452: Essay: “A Comparison/Contrast of Two Beethoven Piano Sonata Movements”
- Music 452: Essay: “Beethoven Op. 53″
- Music 452: Essay: “Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 109″
Papers on Music History:
- Music 381: Essay: “Musica Ficta Concerns in Palestrina’s Motets (an editional comparison)”
- Music 383: Essay: “A Comparison/Contrast of Chopin Piano Sonata Op. 58 with Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 10 No. 3″
- Music 383: Essay: “Overview of the Nineteenth-Century Piano Sonata Genre”
- Music 384: Essay: “An Exposition of Similarities and Differences in the work of the Four Seminal Originators of Minimalist Music: Young, Riley, Reich, and Glass”
- Music 454: Generalization of Required Listenings
Papers on Ethnomusicology
