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College of Arts and Letters

Music, Department of

John Kennedy
Full-time Faculty


Office: Music 263
Phone: (323) 343-4084
FAX: (323) 343-4063
Email: jkenned@calstatela.edu


TEACHING INTERESTS

My teaching interests focus on the music of our time, including composition, new music ensemble, history of music since 1945 and recent performance practices.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research explores the cultivation of a new audience for art music through the intersection of styles and genres inherent in the cross-culturalization of American society. To this end, I am working on a new paradigm of instruction in music improvisation through cross-cultural styles. Additionally, I am interested in the intersection of styles as they are affected by Jazz. This involves a project with Norwegian clarinetist Roger Arve Vigulf and the music of Gould, Bernstein and my own, and post-tonal implications in Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti”.

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

A.Mus.D. Composition 2002
 University of Michigan
 Ann Arbor

M.Mus Composition 1988
 University of Michigan
 Ann Arbor

B.Mus Double Bass 1984
 Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory
 Berea, Ohio

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COURSE LIST

MUS 263 01 Beginning Composition  T :00 - :00  Winter 2008 Mus 236 
MUS 428 1 New Music Ensemble  M 6:10 - 10:00 PM Winter 2008 Music 149 
MUS 460 1 Composition  TR 11:40 - 1:20 PM Winter 2008 Music 118 
MUS 499/MUS 599/UNIV 900  Advanced Composition Tutorial  TBA Winter 2008 Music 236 
MUS 569 01 Seminar: Composition  TBA Winter 2008 MUS 236 

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This document was last updated on 04/04/07