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  • 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.
  • CFA MU 472: Mu Ed 6: Instrm
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 476: Advanced Choral Conducting
    Development of knowledge and skills in the choral field at a professional level; various periods and composers and relationship of different styles to the conductor's art; musical analysis and practice in conducting.
  • CFA MU 478: Choral Repertory and Performance Style 2
    Parallels CFA MU 477, but with literature selected from cantata, passion, and oratorio.
  • CFA MU 479: Song Literature 1
    The development of the Lied genre will be traced from the 18th through 20th centuries, focusing on the poetry and musical setting. Study and performance of Lieder, including songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Schoenberg. 2 cr.
  • CFA MU 480: Song Lit 2
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 481: Song Literature 3
    The development of the English, Italian, and Spanish art song will be traced through study and performance. Among composers to be considered: Dowland, Purcell, Britten, Ives, Argento, Rorem, Granados, Turina. 2 cr.
  • CFA MU 485: Mu Ed 7: Tech
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 486: Orchestral Technique
    For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Problems for various instruments in standard orchestral literature. 1 cr.
  • CFA MU 488: Advanced Performance Seminar
    Performance for signers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction in Italian, English, German, French, and other vocal literature. 1 cr.
  • CFA MU 491: String Literature 1
    Study and performance of string literature from the Baroque to the present. 2 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 492: String Literature 2
    Study and performance of string literature from the Baroque to the present. 2 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 543: Art of Singing: Negro Spiritual
    This course is designed to introduce students to the art and style of singing the American Negro Spiritual. Various composers and arrangers will be introduced to the singers; rhythm and styles will be discussed and demonstrated; diction, coached pronunciations and the understanding of origination. 1 cr.
  • CFA MU 557: Baroque Oboe
  • CFA MU 559: World Music and Culture
    Read, discuss, and begin to understand the rich, ancient tradition of Balinese shadow play music (gender wayang). Students will critique recent scholarship and learn to play Balinese shadow play music on the original instruments. Music sessions will be taught in the oral tradition. Enrollment is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, music majors and non-majors. Prerequisite: none.
  • CFA MU 560: Performance Internship
    1 cr.
  • CFA MU 561: Basic Compositional Techniques
    Introduction to principles of composition. Instruction in calligraphy and manuscript preparation. Examination of contemporary music devices. Written work modeled on analyses of representative forms.2 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 562: Basic Compositional Techniques
    Introduction to principles of composition. Instruction in calligraphy and manuscript preparation. Examination of contemporary music devices. Written work modeled on analyses of representative forms. 2 cr. each semester.

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