Courses

• CFA MU 545: Phonetics for Choral Conducting
  Provides an opportunity for students to develop and understanding of common pronunciation of English, Italian, German, and French for the performance of choral literature. The first half of the semester will be spent learning the International Phonetic Alphabet through in-class exercises, homework, quizzes, and tests, and in-class performance of choral works in English. The second half will involve learning symbols specific to Italian, German, and French, and conducting choral songs in those languages. Classes will meet for one hour twice a week. 2.0 credits.
• 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 563: Composition 3
  Prereq: CFA MU 561, 562. Original work in traditional forms of musical compostion. Original work in traditional forms of music composition. (May be repeated for credit) 2 cr. each sem. Undergraduate.
• CFA MU 565: Composition 5
  Prereq: CFA MU 562, 564. Original work in contemporary musical composition. Undergraduate. 3 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 567: World Music Ensemble
  Explores a wide variety of musical practices from the world over, including Brazil, the Balkans, Colombia, and Ethiopia. Course will emphasize learning music from listening, transcribing, arranging, and some improvising. All instruments and singers welcome; musical proficiency required.
• CFA MU 568: Practical Piano 1
  Keyboard harmonization skills, sight-reading, technical drills and accompaniment for simple melodic lines. Designed to promote keyboard facility for graduate-level singers. Other music majors with permission. (Required of master?s degree Voice majors). 1 cr.
• CFA MU 571: Practicum 1
  Pre-K-5. Supervised student teaching in grades K-5, weekly seminar, individual conferences with University supervisor. Six weeks; minimum 150 hours required. 4 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 572: Practicum 2
  Supervised student teaching in 5-8; weekly seminar, minimum of 150 clock hours; weekly seminar; individual conferences with University supervisor. 4 cr. each semester.
• CFA MU 573: Trombone Choir
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 575: Graduate Composition
  Prereq: Two years of composition. Original work in advanced problems of musical composition. May be repeated for credit. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 576: Practicum 3
  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 577: Conducting
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 580: Practicum Seminar
  Required for undergraduate and graduate Music Education students registered for Practicum. First semester seminar topics will include development of an educational philosophy, resume preparation, job interviewing, and classroom behavior management. Second semester seminar topics include a refresher on job interviewing, assessment, public and parental relations, and music program advocacy. Case study sessions will help seniors analyze complicated classroom situations. Students will be guided through the teacher licensure process and readied for entry into the music education job market. 0 cr. 2 semesters.
• CFA MU 581: Fortepiano
  
• CFA MU 582: Fortepiano
  
• CFA MU 601: Analytical Techniques 1
  Systematic and empirical investigations into formal and compositional procedures of selected masterworks from the tonal repertoire. Lectures leading to individual analytical projects. Credits not applicable to MusAD in Composition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 602: Analytical Techniques 2
  Analysis of contemporary music. Investigation into compositional methods and procedures used in twentieth-century music. Lectures leading to individual analytical projects. Credits not applicable to MusAD in Composition. 3 cr.
• CFA MU 605: Fugue
  Analysis and writing of examples of fugues in three and four voices based on the practice of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 606: Modal Counterpoint
  Analysis and writing of sixteenth-century vocal styles based on the practices of Palestrina, Lassus, and others. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 611: 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.

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