CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Professor Beckerman
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Assistant Professor Daughtry

The Department of Music offers a major and a minor in music. It also provides many courses of interest to the entire NYU community. Department courses cover topics in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory and composition, popular music studies, music and gender, and historical performance. Courses are available for students with no previous musical experience, as well as for those with some background in music.

The department houses the Center for Early Music and its ensemble (the Collegium Musicum), the American Institute for Verdi Studies, an Ethnomusicology Laboratory, the Washington Square Computer Music Studio, and the Washington Square Contemporary Music Series and First Performance Series. The NYU Orchestra and numerous other choral, vocal, and instrumental ensembles organized by the Center for Music Performance supplement the Department of Music’s performance activities. The Department of Music is located in Greenwich Village, a historic center of musical innovation. New York City is one of the liveliest cities for musical performance, composition, and ethnomusicological study in the world. Students also have access to a major research collection in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Faculty

Professors Emeriti:
Bailey, Chusid, Fennelly, Roesner

Professors:
Beckerman, Boorman, Burrows, Cusick, Karchin

Associate Professors:
Hoffman, Moreno, Ochoa Gautier

Assistant Professors:
Daughtry, Stanyek

Global Distinguished Professor:
Moloney

Clinical Associate Professor:
Mueller

Adjunct Faculty:
Panofsky

Affiliated Associate:
Kapchan (Tisch, Performance Studies)