Courses

• CFA MU 373: Pedagogy and Practicum I, II
  Teaching methods and materials for use in private and group instruction; literature concerned with leading teachers' approaches to acquiring musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 375: Student-Teaching Practicum 3; 8-12
  Supervised student teaching in grades 8 through 12; six weeks, minimum of 150 clock hours; weekly seminar; individual conferences with University supervisor. 4 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 377: Intro to Conducting
  This course covers basic skills, including use of each hand, study of musical terminology, transposition, tempi, and dynamics. Students learn simple score reading and receive conducting experience. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 394: Opera Project
  Designed to provide a basic understanding of how to prepare and perform appropriate selections from the operatic repertoire, with a dual focus on stagecraft and musical preparation. Class performance projects include recitative, staged operatic arias and opera scenes. 1 cr
• CFA MU 397: 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. 2 cr, each semester.
• 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 409: Ind Study Undgr
  
• 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 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 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 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 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 486: Orchestral Technique
  For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Problems for various instruments in standard orchestral 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 493: String Lit 3
  

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