Courses

• CFA MU 400: Graduate Theory Review
  This course is dependent on a student's theory proficiency exam results. Review of fundamental music theory and analysis through the study of chord grammar, voice leading principles, figured bass, four-part chorale harmonizations and form. Materials are approached through listening, writing and analytical work. Pre-requisite for MU600, unless placed out via theory proficiency exam. 2.0 credits.
• 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 counterpoint, chorale prelude, and two- and three-part inventions. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MU 407: Ear-Training and Sight-Singing 5
  Prereq: CFA Mu 208 or placement by examination. Continuation of CFA MU 208. Advanced work in preparing chromatic and disjunct material, sight-singing, rhythmic reading, and dictation. May be taken for graduate credit with permission. 1.0 credit.
• CFA MU 409: Ind Study Undgr
  
• CFA MU 410: Independent Study in Music Education
  Prereq: approval of advisor, the faculty member who is to supervise study, and department chairman. Plans must be submitted in advance of registration. (A maximum of 8 semester hours may be counted toward the degree.)Open only to undergaduate students. 2-3 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 421: 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 438: German Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 439: French Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 440: Italian Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 441: English Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 442: Voice Elective
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 449: Senior Independent Work for Distinction
  Individual tutorial instruction and directed study at distinction level. Final project: thesis on original research topic. By permission only.
• CFA MU 450: Harpsichord for Keyboard Majors
  Study and performance of the harpsichord and its literature. Students instructed in the various aspects of harpsichord playing, including technique, registration, basso continuo realization, performance practice, national styles, and the major composers for the instrument. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MU 463: Creativity and Imagination in General Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 361 or permission of instructor. Students will examine general music instruction through the lenses of higher order thinking, multiple intelligences, and connectivity. This course will present ways that general music teachers can become reflective practitioners who stimulate their students to interact powerfully and imaginatively with music. Teaching which provokes inquiry and creativity will be emphasized. A variety of published and teacher-constructed curriculum materials will be examined, critiqued, and analyzed for their ability to stimulate active student engagement, to anchor core music concepts, to address national and state standards, and to connect music with academic learning. Students will be challenged to create, compose, experiment, research, and design curriculum materials that are substantive, thought-provoking, vivid, and memorable. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 465: Curriculum Planning for General Music
  Contemporary philosophies and goals of general music; content of the general music program from kindergarten through junior high school; techniques and problems of curriculum development.
• CFA MU 471: Mu Ed 5: Choral
  This course description is currently under construction.

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