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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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 […]
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 […]
MUS171 | Syllabus | Queens College | Fall 2025
Syllabus for Sight Singing and Dictation 1 at Queens College Instructor: Vlad Praskurnin Course: MUS171 This assignment contains notated music and requires […]
MUS171 (Sight Singing and Dictation 1) | Solfege Warm Ups | Queens College | Fall 2025
Various scale-based warm ups to improve solfege, in major and minor. Instructor: Vlad Praskurnin Course: MUS171 (Sight Singing and Dictation 1) This […]
Introduction to Music (MUS 1) | Text Painting Assignment | Queens College | Spring 2025
This assignment is part of a unit on early music and pairs with a discussion of text painting in madrigals. “As Vestas […]
