GRMUS 651P — Performance Practice Seminar in Contemporary Music

2 credits
Fall or Spring
David Serkin Ludwig

Students taking this course will learn contemporary performance techniques through the applied scholarship and performance of selected works from the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on solo and small ensemble pieces. Class participants will be asked to give presentations on works they are performing in a lecture-demonstration format, offering historical context and informed interpretation through analytical tools they develop in the class. The second phase of the class will involve participants identifying and selecting a composer from the Juilliard student body and workshopping a new piece written specifically for them. Students taking the class will learn about commissioning, contracts, and the presentation of new works. This course is open to all instrumental and voice students with a preference given to those students in the later part of their undergraduate studies or in graduate programs.