Music
Note: the courses on this page reflect Summer Term 2008 offerings.
Please check back on December 15 for a list of courses available during Summer Term 2009.
College of Arts and Sciences
CAS MU 225 Jazz Music
An overview of jazz in all its aspects. Allows students with no previous musical experience to explore the history of jazz through reading, listening, writing assignments, concert attendance, research and direct involvement with performers. Topics include the historical periods of jazz, biographies of significant jazz musicians (including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Winton Marsalis, and Sarah Vaughan), repertoire from a variety of styles, oral and literate traditions, and jazz as an art form. 4 cr.
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College of Fine Arts
CFA Music majors interested in taking summer courses to meet their degree
requirements should seek advance approval from the School of Music.
Applied Music
Students should make personal arrangements with the School of Music for private
lessons. There is an Applied Music fee during Summer Term of for seven
one-hour lessons, and .50 for seven half-hour lessons per session. Lessons
taken for credit will also carry standard undergraduate tuition of per
credit.
Private study in applied music is offered during both sessions of the Summer
Term in the following instruments:
Summer 1 and 2: Piano
CFA ML 501 and ML 502
Linda Jiorle-Nagy
Summer 1 and 2: Voice
CFA ML 507 and ML 508
Frank Kelley
Summer 1 and 2: Violin
CFA ML 509 and ML 510
Raphael Hillyer
Summer 1 and 2: Viola
CFA ML 511 and ML 512
Raphael Hillyer
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Music Education
CFA MU 391/MU 691 Music for Special Learners
Students learn the requirements mandated by current special
education laws at the national (PL 94-142) and Massachusetts (Chapter 766)
levels and their application to public schooling; implications of special
education "inclusion" model for music specialists; the SPED core
evaluation process as well the use of Individual Education Plans (IEP's)
in planning music instruction. Clinical description of the disabilities and
syndromes which are prevalent in "inclusion" schools ranging from
developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, learning disabilities,
emotional disabilities, and
mental retardation and their implications for music teaching are included.
Focus on planning and adapting music lessons and rehearsal
plans for special learners in K-12 music classes. 2 cr.
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CFA MU 416/MU 616 Teaching and Learning of Traditional American Music
Exploration through collective music making, of American musical styles and
performance practice from 1661 to 1940, with applications and strategies
for inclusion in the general music classroom. 2 cr.
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CFA MU 432/MU 632 Rhythms of the World: West Africa
Based on new methodologies for teaching world music through the direct
experience of performing the music. Improvisational elements are fundamental.
Educational objectives of this course include understanding the music through
listening, performing and creating; learning to teach the music in the general
music classroom through movement, improvisation, ensemble performance, and percussion;
developing an awareness of available resources. 2 cr.
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CFA MU 433/MU 633 Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training
Level I
This intensive and exciting course offers comprehensive instruction
in Orff Schulwerk philosophy, pedagogy, techniques and theory, orchestration,
and improvisation. The course constitutes the first level of national certification
as an Orff Schulwerk teacher. Sessions focus on ensemble playing, lessons
and pedagogy, recorder techniques, dance and movement, and special topics.
CFA MU 433: 2 cr. Tuition ; CFA MU 633: 4 cr.
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CFA MU 446/MU 646 Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Level II
Prereq: Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Level I. Continuation of the
Orff Schulwerk approach including activities in song, percussion, movement,
and recorder. This course constitutes the
second
level of national certification as an Orff Schulwerk teacher. Contact the Summer
Term Office at summer@bu.edu for further
information. CFA MU 446: 2 cr. Tuition ; CFA MU 646: 4 cr.
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CFA MU 579 Instructional Software, Internet and Digital Media for
Music
Educators
Transform teaching by learning how the use of instructional software,
the Internet, and digital media in K-12 education can excite and empower
music students. This entry level course provides hands-on exploration
of a variety of instructional programs, safe websites for students to
enhance their musical learning, use of the Internet as a tool for communicating
news about programs within the community, and skill development in how to
record/edit sound, create MP3s and burn CDs. Participants will create an
instructional multimedia project using the skills learned in the course and
explore ways
to incorporate these tools into their curriculum that will help to address
both National Music Standards and State Curriculum Frameworks. The software
and skills learned in the course are compatible with both Macintosh and Windows
platforms and course content is applicable to all grade levels. (Note: This
course fulfills 1/2 of TI:ME level 1 certification.) 2 cr.
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CFA MU 437/MU 637 Digital Media in the Music Classroom
New digital formats provide the music educator with powerful tools
for use in their classrooms and rehearsals. This course focuses on the
development and delivery of multimedia for the music classroom. Teachers
who complete this course will create both multimedia presentations and interactive
computer-based lessons appropriate for the K-12 music classroom. They will
learn how to acquire digital multimedia files including text, graphics, video,
sound, and music, and how to incorporate these files into presentations and
interactive tutorials and games. The software to be used in the class will
includes programs for creating and editing text, graphics, sound, and video.
A multimedia presentation program is used to tie elements together to
create powerful and effective lessons and presentations for your music students.
Software used is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms and
course content is applicable to all grade levels. (Note: This course fulfills
1/3 of the requirements for TI:ME Level 2 Certification.) 2 cr.
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CFA MU 583 Musical Directing for Middle School and High School Music
Teachers
Uncover the "secrets" of producing successful musical
theatre to give your students the best experience possible. Topics include
understanding the complete process from show selection, budgeting, soliciting
parent support,
and efficient scheduling of rehearsal time.
Discussions will benefit new as well as veteran teachers. 2 cr.
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Musicology
CFA MU 246 Popular Music: The Rolling Stones
This multi-media course provides an in-depth examination of the Rolling Stones
and their role within the evolving history of popular culture, with the major
emphasis placed on understanding their musical styles. Along the way, the relationship
between the group and the major trends in rock music will be highlighted, since
a history of the Stones is, in many ways, a history of rock music in general.
This course is intended for the general university student and neither assumes
nor requires previous training in music. 4 cr.
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CFA MU 343/353 Popular Music and Culture
Topic for Summer 2008: The Punk/Post-Punk Rebellion. Examines representative
works of artists from 1975 to 1985, including Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, Blondie,
Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Police, U2, Jam, and R.E.M., with a focus
on trying to think like artists and producers in order to understand their
aesthetic code, and to gain basic music-analytical skills. The course constructs
a workable historical narrative of an extremely diverse, and poorly understood,
musical culture where new genera and styles developed, co-existed, and merged
with older, revived styles and artists. 4 cr.
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CFA MU 639 Music of Mozart
Early training and travels: Salzburg and Vienna, Mozart and Haydn. Emphasis
on Mozart’s contributions to the literature of the symphony, chamber
music, concerto, sonata, opera, song and mass; recent Mozart research and
chronology. 3 cr.
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