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  • CFA MU 775: Introduction to Music Education Research
    Overview of music education research. Research design and methodology to include development of hypotheses, problems and subproblems, qualitative research, survey, observational, causal comparative, experimental, evaluation, and historical research. Ability to understand, interpret, and use research in teaching and learning. Designed primarily for master's degree students.
  • CFA MU 789: Writing Dma Rec
  • CFA MU 790: Opera Institute
  • CFA MU 795: Master's Thesis
    Ongoing work toward completion of master's thesis. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 802: SEMTHRY1:ADVTNL
    802 SEMTHRY1:ADVTNL
  • CFA MU 822: Seminar: Music of the Renaissance Period
    Prereq: graduate standing in the University as a music major, corresponding 700-level courses in period music histories, or approval of instructor. Special problems in history and analysis of music. Individual research projects, special assignments, and class research projects as directed by instructor. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 823: Seminar: Music of the Baroque Period
    Prereq: graduate standing in the University as a music major, corresponding 700-level courses in period music histories, or approval of instructor. Special problems in history and analysis of music. Individual research projects, special assignments, and class research projects as directed by instructor. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 825: Seminar: Music of the Romantic Period
    Prereq: graduate standing in the University as a music major, corresponding 700-level courses in period music histories, or approval of instructor. Special problems in history and analysis of music. Individual research projects, special assignments, and class research projects as directed by instructor. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 828: Pro-Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
    In this seminar, students will be introduced to the history of the discipline of ethnomusicology. We will discuss significant figures in the field, and explore a wide range of approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of music and culture. This course provides a fundamental understanding of the discipline of ethnomusicology from its initial phases to the present. Open to graduate students in all disciplines. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 829: Research Methods in Ethnomusicology
    Required seminar for graduate students in Ethnomusicology. This course will investigate research methods used in ethnomusicology including field methods, transcription and notation of non Western music, interview techniques, and technology. Students will critique a wide range of musical ethnographies. This course will prepare graduate students in ethnomusicology to conduct original research, and it will introduce ethnomusicological research techniques to graduate students from various disciplines (including but not limited to musicology, music education and anthropology.) Ethnomusicology graduate students will often take this graduate seminar in their second semester, but it could be taken at any time in their two years of enrollment.
  • CFA MU 830: Contemplating Ethnomusicology
    This graduate seminar is required for graduate students in Ethnomusicology. This course will involve in-depth reading and discussion of key areas of scholarship: music and politics, music and gender, music and religion, music and identity, and other useful paradigms. This course will broaden and deepen the intellectual horizons of graduate students in ethnomusicology and other interested graduate students. Ethnomusicology graduate students will often take this graduate seminar in their third semester, but it could also be taken earlier.
  • CFA MU 831: Medieval and Renaissance Notation I, II
    Principles of mensural notation used in polyphonic ensemble music from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Practice in transcribing examples into modern notation. Transcription of lute and keyboard tablatures. 3 cr each, 1st and 2nd semester.
  • CFA MU 838: Pro Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
    In this seminar, students will be introduced to the history of the disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology. We shall explore a wide range of approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of music and culture. This course provides a fundamental understanding of the disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology from their initial phases to the present. open to graduate students in all disciplines. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 849: Musicology&Res
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 851: History of Music Theory I, II
    From ancient Greece to A.D. 1600. Emphasis on modal theory, theory of counterpoint, and tuning and temperament. Readings from the original sources. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 852: History of Music Theory II
    From A.D. 1600 to the present. Emphasis on theories of thorough bass, harmony, tonality, form, rhythm, and contemporary practice. Readings from the original sources. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 862: Curr Organ Mued
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 864: Crit in Mus Ed
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 873: String Pedagogy and Practicum
    Teaching methods and materials for use in private and group instruction; literature concerned with leading teachers' approaches to acquiring musical skills and understanding.
  • CFA MU 874: String Ped/PRC2
    This course description is currently under construction.

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