Courses

• CFA MU 562: 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.
• CFA MU 563: Composition 3
  Prereq: CFA MU 561, 562. Original work in traditional forms of musical compostion. Original work in traditional forms of music composition. (May be repeated for credit) 2 cr. each sem. Undergraduate.
• CFA MU 564: Composition 4
  Prereq: CFA MU 561, 562. Original work in traditional forms of music composition. (May be repeated for credit.) 2 cr. each sem. Undergraduate.
• CFA MU 565: Composition 5
  Prereq: CFA MU 562, 564. Original work in contemporary musical composition. Undergraduate. 3 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 566: Composition 6
  Prereq: CFA MU 563, 564. Original work in contemporary musical composition. Undergraduate. 3 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 601: Analytical Techniques 1
  Systematic and empirical investigations into formal and compositional procedures of selected masterworks from the tonal repertoire. Lectures leading to individual analytical projects. Credits not applicable to MusAD in Composition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 602: Analytical Techniques 2
  Analysis of contemporary music. Investigation into compositional methods and procedures used in twentieth-century music. Lectures leading to individual analytical projects. Credits not applicable to MusAD in Composition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 603: Instrumentation 2
  Prereq: Intermediate-level scoring for chamber combinations, small and large orchestra and bands, and combined mediums. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 605: Fugue
  Analysis and writing of examples of fugues in three and four voices based on the practice of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 609: Theory Practicum 1
  Practical application of theoretical skills: keyboard realization, score reading, rehearsal techniques, advanced solfège and intonation drills, and analytical problems as related to the needs of the performing musician. Performance problems of contemporary literature. Materials drawn from solo and ensemble music of all periods. Elective course for junior level and above, including graduate students. 2 cr, each semester.
• CFA MU 610: Theory Practicum 2
  Practical application of theoretical skills: keyboard realization, score reading, rehearsal techniques, advanced solfège and intonation drills, and analytical problems as related to the needs of the performing musician. Performance problems of contemporary literature. Materials drawn from solo and ensemble music of all periods. Elective course for junior level and above, including graduate students. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 611: 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 612: 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 613: 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 614: Individual Projects in Electronic and Computer Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 613 or permission of instructor. Individual projects in composition and research. May be repeated for credit. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.
• CFA MU 615: Contemporary Techniques 1
  Analysis and original application of such techniques as polyharmony, atonality, pandiatonicism, linear counterpoint, multirhythms, and aleatory types. 2 cr, each semester.
• CFA 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. Open to music education students, and to other music students by approval of instructor.
• CFA MU 621: Introduction to the Organ
  Introduction to the Organ, a companion course to MU450 Introduction to the Harpsichord, will cover organ technique, repertoire, registration, history, and design. Basic techniques of touch, pedaling and coordination, and hymn playing will be addressed, as well as a survey of the literature written for the organ as related to developments in organ design and technology. Visits to local organs on and off campus will be included as well as classes regularly held in Room 426 where there is a seven-stop Noack mechanical studio organ. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 624: History and Literature of the Keyboard 1
  From backgrounds in organ, clavichord, and harpsichord, music of the Baroque period to sonatas and character pieces of Schubert. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 625: History and Literature of the Keyboard 2
  From piano music of Mendelssohn to contemporary repertory; emphasis on impact of virtuosity and perfection of idiomatic writing in the keyboard style of the nineteenth century. 3 cr.

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