Tina Fruehauf

If you are looking for a fun, interesting class where you actually learn a lot, i would definitely recommend. 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Fall 2023 Course: MUSIUN2030_001_2023_3-JEWISHMUSICINNEWYORK : MUSIUN2030_001_2023_3 - JEWISH MUSIC IN NEW YORK Instructor: Tina Fruehauf

Interesting lectures 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Fall 2022 Course: MUSIUN2030_001_2022_3-JEWISHMUSICINNEWYORK : MUSIUN2030_001_2022_3 - JEWISH MUSIC IN NEW YORK Instructor: Tina Fruehauf

She is very passionate about the subject. She was always happy and energetic in class. However, I am pretty much tone deaf, and for me the class was a challenge. She breezes by topics and facts very fast--and I think others in my class would agree--so for me it became a hard class. I probably did the worst out of my group. The average was a A- and I got a B. She is extremely rule-bound, so if, let's say, you're at an A- but always participate and show interest, then she will give you an A- because your percentage warrants an A- only. Not saying she shouldn't be this way, but there was a professional recording artist in my class who did everything and beyond and still got an A- in the end. There was a problematic lecture where she showed some movie where the protagonist is in black face. The closest thing to a black person they had in there was me, and im not even black; i mean more in terms of having an awareness of systematic oppression of people of color. So essentially no black people in the class. She said that black face is controversial but that's as far as it went. I had to raise my hand and comment on it further, to bring the point home. She did not seem to be comfortable with that. If you're going to show a film with black face, you gotta at least mention the history and problem associated with it. To her, it didn't seem to be too big of a deal. She might wanna recons…

I would recommend this class to anyone interested in music, NYC, Judaism, anthropology, and more. I think this class was great because it was a smaller size and a really good mix of discussion and lecture. 1 Columbia University: Arts & Sciences Fall 2021 Course: MUSIUN2030_001_2021_3-JEWISHMUSICINNEWYORK : MUSIUN2030_001_2021_3 - JEWISH MUSIC IN NEW YORK Instructor: Tina Fruehauf

Same as all music hum classes. A couple of test, a midterm and final. The test will prepare you for the midterm and finals and is an easy way to increase your grade. There was a visit to the Lincoln Center to watch an opera which was great

Great professor! She truly wants her students to understand the subject. I had absolutely no music background and still did very well in her class. She will not move on until everyone understands the material. Take her for Music Hum.

Small assignments, 2 concert essays that are due a week after you see the concert, midterm and final.

SHE IS AMAZING! First off, the workload in her section is completely manageable. And really engaging. We had a little assignment that required us to to go The Cloisters uptown. I would have never traveled up there if it had not been for this class (side note: go to The Cloisters. It's amazing!). The really big assignments in the class are the 2 concert reports (which are due one week after you see the concert). She even says that she will read your drafts for a concert if you see it before the midterm. Throughout the semester she will send emails with suggestions to different shows around the city that you can see for the class. For the midterm, she has a review session at her loft in SoHo. She gives you a review sheet with all the terms you will need to know and the exact paragraphs for the short essay that you will need to put into musical form. Basically, she hands you the midterm and all you need to study is the known listening section. The final is the exact same thing as the midterm and mostly focused on the second half of the course. The only part that is the entire course is the known and unknown listening. That you need to study for. I would say the only bad part of her class is along with her syllabus that she gives out in the first class, she also has an online syllabus. It was annoying at times to have to look at both to do the readings and there was always additio…

ENTIRELY manageable (hint hint!): two or three short assignments that take about an hour each, plus two concert reports (due at any time during the semester within one week of the concert), a midterm, and a final. ***She invites her class to the fabulously fancy loft in SoHo she shares with her flutist husband for a review session and provides dinner and dessert: DID I MENTION SHE IS A FANTASTIC BAKER?

I was lucky enough to find myself in Tina Fruehauf's class after putting off registering for Music Hum until second semester senior year. Not having had any sort of formal music education prior to this, I was just planning to get my last Core requirement out of the way in time to graduate. However, Tina was the precisely the type of instructor the Core office wants and gave me the tools to appreciate music at a higher critical level than me saying, "I like/hate this!" WITHOUT creating any of the usual anxiety of Columbia classes that make me rip my hair out. Besides an entirely manageable workload (hint hint), Tina is fantastically engaging in the classroom. She is straightforward and gives the most incredibly precise clarifications of the material in response to students' questions / comments. No prevarications or scatter-brained/evasive answers here, Tina is 100% clear and very nuanced. This is not to say that she's a German hardass, not at all, but she seems to genuinely want each of her students to understand things. The kindness and lightheartedness with which she speaks is probably a result of her generally caring nature, although she is in no way cloying/motherly, as some older female professors can sometimes be. Maybe that's because she's pretty young -- under 40, I think. She generally has a healthy, positive air about her! One time, I saw her in mid-bounce jogging do…