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  • CFA MU 321: History and Literature of Music 3
    Music from Domenico Scarlatti to Liszt. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 325: Romantic Music
    Romantic Music 3 cr
  • CFA MU 326: 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 327: 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. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 328: 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. 3 cr.
  • 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 340: 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. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 341: 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 342: 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. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 343: 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. 3 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.

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