Courses

• CFA MU 630: History and Literature of Opera 2
  Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini; sociopolitical backgrounds of Italian opera in the nineteenth century; Verdi: Aida, Otello, Falstaff; verismo and its exponents. Influence of Wagner on Italian opera; Giacomo Puccini. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 635: Music of Wagner
  Rienzi to Lohengrin. Aesthetics of the music drama; Der Ring des Nibelungen; the leitmotiv device; Wagner's prose works. The neo-German controversy in the writings of Hanslick, Kurth, Lorenz, and other contemporary analysts; Tristan and the path to the future. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 636: Interpretation Workshop: The Cantatas of J.S. Bach
  This course will explore, through live performances contributed by its participants, issues of Bach interpretation, ranging from questions of historical practice to relationships between structural analysis and musical realization. Course content varies by semester. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 637: Notation, Music Production, and Electronic Instruments
  Covers music notation, music production, and electronic instruments in K−12 education. Students learn to use notation software (Sibelius and Finale), to create and edit digital audio and MIDI recordings, and to use electronic and virtual instruments. Students explore ways to incorporate these tools into the curriculum. The course is taught in a hands-on environment. Satisfactory participation in class activities and successful completion of several projects are required. This course fulfills half of the requirements for TI:ME Level 1 certification.
• CFA MU 639: Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Early training and travels: Salzburg and Vienna, Mozart and Haydn. Emphasis on Mozart's contributions to literature of the symphony, chamber music, concerto, sonata, opera, song, and mass; recent Mozart research and chronology. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 640: Music of Ludwig van Beethoven
  His work in relation to his life and times; contributions to the expansion of classic symphonic and sonata principles and developmental techniques. Emphasis on his symphonies, chamber music, sonatas, and concertos; Beethoven's influence on later nineteenth-century composers. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 641: Music of Franz Peter Schubert
  His life and times. Early training and influences. The songs, the chamber music, the symphonies, the stage works. Religious music and piano music. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 642: Music of Johannes Brahms
  The Classical Romantic. Brahms and Beethoven; the symphonies and his technique of germinal motivic construction. Brahms and Schumann; the chamber music, the songs, and the requiem. Brahms and Wagner; the composer as musicologist. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 645: Music of Igor Stravinsky
  Training with Rimsky-Korsakov and early works for the Diaghilev Ballet. Neoclassic period: from the octet to the violin concerto; his writings about music; American period: from Dumbarton Oaks to The Rake's Progress. His compositions in the serial techniques. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 647: History and Literature of Art Song
  The German Lied, the French art song, and other European art songs in the nineteenth and twentieth ceturies. Emphasis on Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mussorgsky, Faure, and Debussey. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 648: History and Literature of Large Choral Forms
  Development of larger choral forms from the Renaissance period to the present: oratorios, cantatas, masses, and combined media-sacred and secular.
• CFA MU 705: Advanced Topics in Counterpoint
  Prereq: CFA MU 605. Analysis and writing of genres and style of contrapuntal practice, including but not limited to fuges from theAdvanced writing and analytical problems of fugues and related genres from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. 2 cr.
• CFA PS 586: Child Growth and Development
  Examination of human development from birth through adolescence. Consideration of perceptual, motor, emotional, cognitive, and social growth as presented in the writings of such psychologists as Piaget, Bruner, Meade, Erikson, and Werner. Particular attention is given to interaction between cognitive and affective processes, and the relationship between stages of growth.

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