Courses 2019–2020
Music Courses • Divinity Courses • ISM courses hosted in other departments
The letter “a” following the course number denotes the fall term; the letter “b” denotes the spring term.
Please refer to https://courses.yale.edu/ for course descriptions, syllabi, and up-to-date schedules. You may also find courses that interest you in other departments, such as Religious Studies, Art History, Medieval Studies, etc.
Music Courses
MUS 506a–b, 606a–b, Lyric Diction for Singers — Faculty
MUS 509a–b, 609a–b, 709a–b, Art Song Coaching for Singers — Tomoko Nakayama
MUS 511b, Music before 1750 — Markus Rathey
MUS 515a,b, Improvisation at the Organ I — Jeffrey Brillhart
MUS 518b/REL 685b, In the Face of Death: Worship, Music, Art — Teresa Berger, Markus Rathey
MUS 519a–b, 619a–b, 719a–b, Colloquium — Martin Jean
MUS 522a–b, 622a–b, 722a–b, Acting for Singers — Ethan Heard (ISM), Christopher Murrah
MUS 531a–b, 631a–b, Repertory Chorus—Voice — Marguerite Brooks
MUS 532a–b, 632a–b, Repertory Chorus—Conducting — Marguerite Brooks
MUS 535a–b, 635a–b, Recital Chorus—Voice — Marguerite Brooks
MUS 536a–b, 636a–b, Recital Chorus—Conducting — Marguerite Brooks
MUS 540a–b, 640a–b, 740a–b, 840a–b, Individual Instruction in the Major — Faculty
MUS 544a–b, 644a–b, 744a–b, Seminar in the Major — Faculty
MUS 546a–b, 646a–b, 746a–b, Yale Camerata — Marguerite Brooks
MUS 571a–b, 671a–b, 771a–b, Yale Schola Cantorum — David Hill
MUS 579b, Responses to War in the Choral Genre — Jeffrey Douma
MUS 594a–b, Vocal Chamber Music — Bernarda Fink [F], James Taylor [Sp]
MUS 595a–b, 695b, Performance Practice for Singers — Jeffrey Grossman
MUS 615a,b, Improvisation at the Organ II — Jeffrey Brillhart
MUS 617a/REL 643a, Music and Theology in the Sixteenth Century — Markus Rathey
MUS 623a,b, Early Music Coaching for Singers — Jeffrey Grossman
MUS 656a, Liturgical Keyboard Skills I — Walden Moore
MUS 657a, Liturgical Keyboard Skills II — Walden Moore
MUS 672a/REL 912a, Sacred Music: Unity and Diversity — Markus Rathey
[MUS 715a,b, Improvisation at the Organ III — Jeffrey Brillhart. Not offered in 2019–2020]
[MUS 815a,b, Improvisation at the Organ IV — Jeffrey Brillhart. Not offered in 2019–2020]
Divinity Courses
REL 3910a–b, Colloquium — Martin Jean
REL 601b, Eastern Orthodox Worship and Thought — Mark Roosien
REL 610a, Worship, Cosmos, Creation — Teresa Berger
REL 611b, Understanding American Evangelical Worship – Melanie Ross
REL 643a/MUS 617a, Music and Theology in the Sixteenth Century —Markus Rathey
REL 675b, Baptism and Eucharist in Ecumenical Dialogue — Melanie Ross
REL 677b, Natural Disasters in the Christian Tradition: Ritual and Theological Responses — Mark Roosien
REL 682a, Foundations of Christian Worship — Melanie Ross
REL 683a, The Liturgy, Ritual, and Chant of Medieval England (Sarum Use) — Bryan Spinks, Henry Parkes
REL 685b/MUS 518b, In the Face of Death: Worship, Music, Art — Teresa Berger, Markus Rathey
REL 687a, The Books of Common Prayer — Bryan Spinks
REL 688a, Catholic Liturgy — Teresa Berger
REL 690a, Liturgical Theology — Melanie Ross
REL 695b, Daily Prayer: Liturgical Developments, Theological Principles, Contemporary Practices – Teresa Berger
REL 747a, Islamic Art and Architecture in the Mediterranean — Örgü Dalgiç
REL 756a, The Cult of Mary: Early Christian and Byzantine Art — Vasileios Marinis, Felicity Harley
REL 801a or b, Marquand Chapel Choir — Nathaniel Gumbs
REL 802a or b, Marquand Gospel and Inspirational Choir — Mark Miller
REL 900b, Sacred Sounds: Key Issues in the Ethnomusicology of Religion – Bo kyung Blenda Im
REL 902b, Literary Appropriations: Writers and Philosophers in Conversation — John Hare, David Mahan
REL 912a/MUS 672a, Sacred Music: Unity and Diversity — Markus Rathey
REL 943a, Performance behind Bars: Sacred Music, Sacred Texts, and Social Justice — Ronald S. Jenkins
REL 945a/MDVL 663a, From House Churches to Medieval Cathedrals: Christian Art and Architecture to the End of Gothic —Vasileios Marinis
REL 953a, Reading Poetry Theologically — David Mahan
REL 964b, Imagining the Apocalypse: Scripture, Fiction, Film — David Mahan
REL 967b/AMST 692b/HSAR 730b/RLST 788b, Religion and the Performance of Space – Sally Promey, Margaret Olin
REL 970a, Human Image: Classical and Biblical — Peter Hawkins
REL 971a, Creative Faith: Poetry — Christian Wiman
REL 979a, Hymns and Their Music — Carl Pickens Daw, Jr.
REL 981b, Visual Controversies: Religion and the Politics of Vision — Vasileios Marinis, Sally Promey
REL 991b, Shakespeare in Theological Context — Marilynne Robinson
REL 992b, The Politics and Culture of Russian Sacred Art — Vera Shevzov
REL 994b, Visual Cultures of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andes — Ananda Cohen-Aponte
ISM Courses Hosted in Other Departments
HSAR 529a/AMST 630a, Religion and Museums — Sally Promey
HSAR 533a, Sanctuaries in Syria and Phoenicia during the Roman Period — Blair Fowlkes Childs
HSAR 538b/SAST 656b, Visual Culture in Modern South Asia – Ranu Roychoudhuri
HSAR 592b, Art of the Chora Monastery — Vasileios Marinis, Robert Nelson
MUSI 350a, History of Western Music: Middle Ages and Renaissance — Henry Parkes
MUSI 438a, Emotions and Sacred Music in the Early Modern World — Thomas Marks
RLST 369b/EAST 360b/MUSI 489b, Popular Music and Christianity in Korea - Bo kyung Blenda Im
RLST 638b, Who Wants to be a Medievalist: The Study and Use of the Middles Ages from the Renaissance to Present – Caroline Gruenbaum