Courses

• CFA MU 331: Medieval Music
  
• CFA MU 332: Renaissance Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in music from ca. 1400-1600, including mass, motet, secular vocal, and instrumental repertories, composers and institutions, music and text, humanism, and the relationship between music and Renaissance culture. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 333: Baroque Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in music from ca. 1600-1750, including examinations of opera, cantata and oratorio, monody, instrumental genres, and composers, from Monteverdi to JS Bach. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 334: Music in the Classical Period
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in music from ca. 1750-1820, dealing mainly with symphonic, chamber, and keyboard by Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 335: Romantic Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in music from ca. 1820-1900, dealing mainly with orchestral, chamber and piano music, as well as Lieder, opera, program music, and individual or groups of composers. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 336: Music After 1900
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal genres from 1900 to the present covering such issues as atonality, neo-classicism, expressionism, the avant-garde, post-modernism, minimalism, technology, etc., and with individual or groups of composers.
• CFA MU 337: Selected Topics in Music History
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in the history of music, covering a variety of approaches, styles, and periods, from Antiquity through the present. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 338: Opera
  Prereq CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics and surveys in opera history from its beginnings, ca. 1600, to the present, focusing on major works, libretti, productions, and music / text relationships. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 339: Performance Practice
  Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/22. Selected issues and/or surveys in the history of performance practice, covering instruments, treatises, ornamentation, style, and playing technique. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 350: Musical Cultures of the World
  No prereq; open to all students. A survey of music and musical cultures from around the world, including African- and Native-American traditions, Africa, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Latin America. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 351: Topics in World Music
  A survey of traditional and popular music traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Emphasis is on music making within its cultural context. No technical knowledge of music is required. Prerequisite: none.
• CFA MU 352: Jazz Music
  No prereq; open to all students. A study of issues in, or survey of, jazz from its beginnings to the present, focusing on major performers and recordings, individuality and style, instruments, and forms. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 353: Popular Music and Culture
  No prereq; open to all students. Selected topics exploring the relationship between popular music and culture from American popular song and musical theatre, to worldbeat, blues, rock, Hip-hop, and techno. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 354: Interdisciplinary Topics in Music History
  No prereq; open to all students. Wide-angled and narrowly-focused topics dealing with music’s application to and interaction with other disciplines, including the broader humanities, science, politics, and technology. 4 cr.
• CFA MU 405: Counterpoint 1
  Prereq: CFA MU 102. Analysis and writing of examples of sixteenth-century vocal styles including the motet. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 406: Tonal Counterpoint
  Prereq: CFA MU 405. Study of eighteenth-century instrumental styles including invertible couterpoint, chorale prelude, and two- and three-part inventions. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 411: Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 1
  This course seeks to give the students the aesthetic and technical knowledge needed to complete individual, creative work using electronic media alone or with acoustic instruments. The course will make use of computers, recording equipment, digital editing software, and sound analysis software: developing basic skills in synthesis, sampling, digital recording and live performance techniques. Listening assignments will provide an introduction to existing literature and relevant aspects of acoustic and electronic theory will be discussed. May not be taken concurrently with CFA MU 412. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.
• CFA MU 412: Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 2
  Prereq: CFA MU411 or MU611 or equivalent experience and permission from instructor. This course seeks to expand to students the aesthetic and technical knowledge in the domains of computer music, sound manipulation and sound recording. It also seeks to introduce Computer Assisted Composition environments and real-time interaction between electronics and instruments. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.
• CFA MU 413: Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 3
  Prereq: CFA MU 412/612 or equivalent experience and permission of instructor. More advanced computer music applications focusing on synthesis, real-time interaction and high-level musical control of processes. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.
• CFA MU 561: Basic Compositional Techniques
  Introduction to principles of composition. Instruction in calligraphy and manuscript preparation. Examination of contemporary music devices. Written work modeled on analyses of representative forms.2 cr. each semester.

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