Dr. Steven L. Rosenhaus has been teaching music, both in classrooms and privately, since the mid-1980s. Dr. Rosenhaus currently serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor New York University and Nassau Community College. He was nominated in 2003 for NYU's Steinhardt School of Education Teaching Excellence Award.
Steven Rosenhaus has taught at New York University since 1988, first as a Teaching Assistant, then as an Adjunct Instructor, and since 1996 as Adjunct Assistant Professor. He teaches composition at all levels, with specialties in classical composition, musical theater, and pop songwriting. He is the co-author, with Allen Cohen of Fairleigh Dickinson University, of "Writing Musical Theater," which was published in February 2006 by Palgrave/MacMillan (St. Martin's Press).
Dr. Rosenhaus has taught music theory at all undergraduate and graduate levels at NYU, including the Graduate Seminar in Theory at the NYU Summer Program in Italy (Pisa, 1994); in addition, he created and taught "Introduction to Music Publishing and Printing," a course designed for the Music Business program at NYU, for five years. The course is required of Music Business majors at NYU. His textbook, also called "Introduction to Music Publishing and Printing," was self-published and is temporarily out of print.
Dr. Rosenhaus is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nassau Community, where he has taught a variety of courses since 1998. He has most frequently taught the course in Songwriting. The course is open to and designed for non-music majors as well as music majors, and covers song structure, lyric writing, melody and harmony writing, as well as a range of topics about the business of being a songwriter (copyright, demos, contracts, etc.).
The textbook used is Stephen Citron's Songwriting, with the extensive use of songs from all genres and additional information. Students are encouraged to write lyrics and compose the music for songs, regardless of their prior experience, and to collaborate on a final song project.
In addition to Songwriting, Dr. Rosenhaus has also taught: Beginning Guitar; Beginning Piano; History of Rock Music; and History of Folk Music. Additional courses are to be added.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
*Music Composition (Classical, Musical Theater, Songwriting): Individual instruction (currently)
*Music Theory (all levels): Classroom and individual instruction
*Introduction to Music Publishing and Printing: Classroom instruction
NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE
*Songwriting: Classroom instruction
*History of Rock Music: Classroom instruction
*History of Folk Music: Classroom instruction
*Beginning Guitar: Classroom instruction
*Beginning Piano: Classroom instruction
* INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC PUBLISHING AND PRINTING
Course developed for Music Business majors and Music Composition majors at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. Subjects include music publishing (definitions), historical overview of music publishing, the selection process, the editorial and printing processes (printed music), other means of distribution, income generation.
* SONGWRITING
Using Stephen Citron's book "Songwriting" as the main text, the songwriting class taught at Nassau Community College uses a specialized curiculum developed over the last five years. Subjects include, but are not limited to: Lyrics, music fundamentals (notation), melody writing, harmonization, song styles, critiquing songs, legal aspects of songwriting (including copyrights), business aspects of songwriting.
* WRITING FOR MUSICAL THEATER (with Allen Cohen)
Course patterned after the structure of the book of the same name. Can be used for individual instruction as well as a class course.