Introduction to Music | In-Class Presentations Assignment | Queens College | Spring 2024
This was an assignment in which each student prepared a 5-minute presentation on a song of their choice. We spread the presentations […]
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A Thousand Years of Listening | Syllabus | Hunter College | Fall 2025
Instructor: Lindsay Campbell Course: MUSHL 10100 – A Thousand Years of Listening
Introduction to Music | Syllabus | Queens College | Fall 2024
A music appreciation course for non-majors. Instructor: Madison Spahn Course: Music 1: Introduction to Music
Critical Approaches to Music Scholarship | Syllabus | Queens College | Spring 2025
This was a course for first-year Musicology master’s students, designed to introduce them to the basic research methods and critical approaches of […]
Women in Music | Syllabus | Queens College | Fall 2025
This was used as an in-person special topics writing course for non-music majors. It fulfills the core writing requirement for Queens College […]
Writing about Music | Concert Review Assignment | Queens College | Fall 2025
An assignment where students attend a live concert and write a concert review. Instructor: Madison Spahn Course: Music 121W: Writing about Music […]
Writing About Women | Simplifying Writing Activity | Queens College | Fall 2025
This is an in-class activity in which I had the students read and discuss an excerpt from William Zinsser’s book “On Writing […]
Writing about Music | Argumentative Writing Assignment | Queens College | Fall 2025
An assignment designed to help students practice argumentative writing techniques by exploring Antonio Gramsci’s concept of “organic intellectual” in terms of women […]
MUS74 (Keyboard Skills 1) | Keyboard Exercises | Queens College | Summer 2025
Technical exercises for a basic keyboard class: five-finger patterns, one-octave scales, and I-V-I progressions in various right hand positions. Scales and I-V-I […]
The World of Music | Ethnographic Interview & Essay | Hunter College | Fall 2024
Assignment should be paired with an introductory lecture on (basic) ethnographic interview techniques so that students get a sense of how to […]
