Courses

• CFA MU 670: Chamber Music
  Study and performance of chamber music in various combinations. Chamber ensembles receive one hour of coaching each week with a member of the faculty. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MU 671: Baroque Chamber Music
  Study and performance of Baroque chamber music for winds, strings, and continuo. Ensembles receive one hour of coaching each week with a member of the applied music faculty in the Historical Performance Department. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MU 674: Ensemble for Pianists
  Admission by audition. Four-hand and ensemble work for piano; works using piano with small combinations of instruments. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MU 675: Percuss Ensem
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 676: Ad Chrl Cndctng
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 677: Choral Repertory and Performance Style 1
  Interpretation of major choral works; literature selected from masses, requiems, and magnificats, representing all historical periods; significant compositions; particular attention to stylistic elements.
• CFA MU 679: Creativity and Imagination in General Music
  Students will examine general music instruction through the lenses of higher oral thinking, multiple intelligences, and connectivity. This course will present ways that general music teachers can become reflective practitioners who stimulate their students to react powerfully and imaginatively to music. Teaching that 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 680: Curriculum Planning for General Music
  Students will study current educational thought on how learners come to understand, value, utilize, transfer, and retain what they learn. Focusing on implementing national and state music standards, students work in cooperative cohorts to develop a three year curriculum sequence of units for general music. The backward planning paradigm and curriculum mapping will assist students in their work. Authentic assessment of achievement will be integrated into all curriculum plans. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 681: Inst Duo Sonata
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 686: Orchestral Tech
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 697: Performance Techniques for the Singing Actor 1
  Fundamental stage techniques. Basic stage language, movement, presentation skills, and fundamentals of acting for recital and opera. No audition necessary. Some Opera Workshop participants may be asked to take Performance Techniques as a pre-requisite to casting in scenes.
• CFA MU 698: Prftch Snact II
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 700: Recital Performance
  Students must register for Recital Performance in any semester in which they give a recital counted towards their degree requirements. The sections are organized by degree and type of recital; A1 Bachelor of Music, B1, Master of Music/Master of Sacred Music, C1 Doctor of Musical Arts (solo), D1 Doctor of Musical Arts (chamber), E1 Doctor of Musical Arts (concerto), F1 Doctor of Musical Arts (lecture), G1 Doctor of Musical Arts (self prepared), H1 Performance Diploma, I1 Artist Diploma
• CFA MU 701: Advanced Tonal Analysis
  Prereq: CFA MU 601. Advanced work in tonal, structural, and rhythmic analysis; analysis of late nineteenth-century music. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 702: Advanced Analysis in Contemporary Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 616. Structural problems in tonal music; principles of serial organization, rhythm, texture, and form. Contemporary problems in style and syntax. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 703: Orchestration 1
  Basic techniques in scoring for chorus, orchestra, band, and ensembles. Ranges and transpositions of voices and instruments; idiomatic writing, score reading, and clef transposition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 704: Orchestration 2
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 706: Advanced Tonal Composition
  Advanced compositional projects imitating styles and procedures of various homophonic genres, including variation, rondo, and sonata; problems of continuity in tonal movements. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 707: SP Top Song Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 708: Piano Pedagogy
  An historical overview of the main treatises in Piano Pedagogy as well as teaching methods and materials for use in private and group instruction. The first semester deals with literature and musical concepts as they relate to beginning pianists. The second semester covers some of the major repertoire of the common practice period as well as the work of Ortmann and Schultz. 2 cr

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