Courses

• CFA MU 672: Advanced Choral Conducting
  Development of knowledge and skills in the choral field at a professional level; various periods and composers and relationship of different styles to the conductor's art; musical analysis and practice in conducting.
• CFA MU 674: Ensemble for Pianists
  Admission by audition. Four-hand and ensemble work for piano; works using piano with small combinations of instruments. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MU 675: Percuss Ensem
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 680: Curriculum Planning for General Music
  Students will study current educational thought on how learners come to understand, value, utilize, transfer, and retain what they learn. Focusing on implementing national and state music standards, students work in cooperative cohorts to develop a three year curriculum sequence of units for general music. The backward planning paradigm and curriculum mapping will assist students in their work. Authentic assessment of achievement will be integrated into all curriculum plans. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 681: Inst Duo Sonata
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 686: Orchestral Tech
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 697: Performance Techniques for the Singing Actor 1
  Fundamental stage techniques. Basic stage language, movement, presentation skills, and fundamentals of acting for recital and opera. No audition necessary. Some Opera Workshop participants may be asked to take Performance Techniques as a pre-requisite to casting in scenes.
• CFA MU 700: Recital Performance
  Students must register for Recital Performance in any semester in which they give a recital counted towards their degree requirements. The sections are organized by degree and type of recital; A1 Bachelor of Music, B1, Master of Music/Master of Sacred Music, C1 Doctor of Musical Arts (solo), D1 Doctor of Musical Arts (chamber), E1 Doctor of Musical Arts (concerto), F1 Doctor of Musical Arts (lecture), G1 Doctor of Musical Arts (self prepared), H1 Performance Diploma, I1 Artist Diploma
• CFA MU 702: Advanced Analysis in Contemporary Music
  In-depth review of analytical methods and terminology for diverse post-tonal musical styles. Analysis of representative works from the post-tonal literature.
• CFA MU 703: Orchestration 1
  Basic techniques in scoring for chorus, orchestra, band, and ensembles. Ranges and transpositions of voices and instruments; idiomatic writing, score reading, and clef transposition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 707: SP Top Song Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 708: Piano Pedagogy
  An historical overview of the main treatises in Piano Pedagogy as well as teaching methods and materials for use in private and group instruction. The first semester deals with literature and musical concepts as they relate to beginning pianists. The second semester covers some of the major repertoire of the common practice period as well as the work of Ortmann and Schultz. 2 cr
• CFA MU 710: Special Topics in Theory and Analysis
  Close study of specifically defined areas in theory and analysis. Individual papers and projects assigned by the instructor. 3 cr.(May be repeated for credit.)
• CFA MU 711: Performance and Analysis
  In-depth review of literature on the relation of analysis to performance; practical application of theoretical and analytic concepts to performance decisions; guided exercises in writing analysis addressing performance issues. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 714: Trombone Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 718: Spcl Tpcs Ethno
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 719: Doctoral Proseminar
  Preparation for doctoral qualifying examination in music theory; may be required by a department prior to student's applying to take qualifying examinations. Students may be required to repeat course without credit. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 724: Seminar in Music of the Classic Era
  Topics may include opera, symphony, chamber music, the Lied, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of Classic music. Permission of instructor. 3 credits. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 824.)
• CFA MU 728: Continuo
  Keyboard and other continuo players are given note-by-note analysis and coaching of selected continuo realizations, both written and improvised. Non-keyboard players are given tutelage in basic continuo realization appropriate to their level of keyboard skill, so that they may be able to accompany their future students, and also to better appreciate and have more discernment of the continuo player?'s role in ensembles in which they take part. Additionally, they will play their own instruments (or sing) in the class so that the keyboard players have practice in realizing figured bass accompaniments. For both, a historical overview of the practice of figured bass accompaniment is given together with stylistic analysis and practical musical coaching.
• CFA MU 734: Special Topics in String Literature
  Focused study on a specific body of String Chamber Music Literature (check with String Dept for topic) through score study, readings and lecture, listening to selected recordings, coached group readings by those registered for the course, and/or possible performances in or out of the class meeting time. Open to String Majors. 1 cr.