Musical Stylistics - Class Schedule

Week 1: Style, Fashion, Taste and Genre

Tuesday January 4 Organizational meeting
Thursday January 6 Basic concepts and approaches

Week 2: Conspicuous Consumption & The Fashion Cycle

Tuesday January 11 Thorstein Veblen "The Theory of the Leisure Class"
Thursday January 13 Quentin Bell "On Human Finery"

Week 3: Individual & Group Differences

Tuesday January 18 Gary Nabhan, "Why Some Like It Hot"
Thursday January 20 Richard Nisbett, "The Geography of Thought"

Week 4: The Pennsylvania School

Tuesday January 25 Leonard Meyer, "Style and Music"
Thursday January 27 Robert Gjerdingen, "A Classical Turn of Phrase"

Week 5: Memetics

Tuesday February 1 Richard Dawkins, "Memes and Cultural Evolution"
Thursday February 3 Aaron Lynch, "Thought Contagion"

Week 6: Statistical Stylistics

Tuesday February 8 David Huron, "What is a Musical Feature?"
Thursday February 10 David Cope, "Computer Analysis of Musical Style"

Week 7: Computational Stylistics

Tuesday February 15 David Cope, "Computer Analysis of Musical Style"
Thursday February 17

Week 8: Cognitive Stylistics

Tuesday February 22 David Huron, "Genres, Schemas, and Firewalls"
Thursday February 24

Week 9: Style and Cultural Identity

Tuesday March 1 Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, "Hula hits ..." Andrew Weintraub, "Jawaiian music ..."
Thursday March 3 Steven Feld, "Sound and Sentiment"

Week 10: Modeling Style

Tuesday March 8
Thursday March 10