Ithaca College

Prof. Johnson's article, "The Music of Hamilton and its Historical, Cultural, Social, and Political Contexts," appears in the most recent volume of Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy (v. 5). 

This article describes his approach to teaching the hit musical in Senior Seminar in Music, Liberal Arts, and Outside Fields--the capstone course for the BM Music and BM in Combination with an Outside Field degrees. In this course "students interweave specific observations about the music, based on the musical expertise they [have] been developing as music majors, with broader connections to fields outside of music."

Engaging Students is on online open-access journal that "presents short essays on the subject of student-centered learning." In the inaugural volume of this journal, Prof. Johnson also published an article that describes a project he assigned again this fall in his Form and Analysis course: "The film Philadelphia and Umberto Giordano’s opera Andrea Chénier: A Contextual Approach to Analytical Writing." 

Timothy Johnson is Professor of Music Theory and Chair of the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition.