Courses

• CFA MU 749: Research and Bibliography (Music)
  Methods and materials of research in music; bibliography and bibliographical aids; individual treatment in special areas; style in formal writing; leading historians of past and present; introduction to musicology. 3cr.
• CFA MU 750: Special Topics in Performance Practice 1
  Consideration of major performance issues in the music of Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, et al. Covers topics such as ornamentation, tempo, articulation, tuning and temperament, baroque instruments and their playing techniques, baroque dance, and various national styles of playing. Students perform on their instruments, discuss performance issues, read primary sources and other material about 17th and 18th century performance, compose ornamentation, and listen to and discuss recorded performances. occasional guest lecturers. Required of all historical performance majors. Open to other music graduate students with permission of the instructor.
• CFA MU 757: Crossroads: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on the Blues
  Examination of the blues in its musical and cultural dimensions. Focuses on defining the blues as a place where cultures and styles meet. Chord structure, cultural background, characteristics, major themes, different regional styles and dialects, and its place in history will be examined along with the cultural idea of "crossroads.? 4 cr.
• CFA MU 758: Opera Arias for Pianists 1
  Course for collaborative pianists in the study and performance of standard opera aria repertoire. Required for DMA collaborative piano majors with vocal or vocal/instrumental concentration. Open as elective credit by permission of instructor to music majors having requisite piano skills. The course will meet for two hours each week. Topics will include the study of recitative, operas of Mozart, and the Bel Canto operas of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. Students will be required to purchase a textbook and opera aria for anthologies. 2 credits, Fall semester.
• CFA MU 773: Foundations of Music Education I: Philosophy and History
  Introduction to historical and philosophical foundations of music education. An intensive reading and research seminar course in the history of educational thought and practices in music education in the United States from the Colonial Period to modern times. The course has two distinct disciplinary components; historical research and philosophical discourse in music education.
• 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 824: Seminar: Music of the Classic 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 826: Seminar: Music of the 20TH Century
  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 827: Seminar: Special Topics on Musicology
  Close study of specifically defined areas in the forefront of musicological research. Individual research papers and class research projects as assigned by the 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 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 832: 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, and history and principles of earlier notational systems.
• CFA MU 849: Musicology&Res
  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 881: Choral Repertoire of the Renaissance
  Seminar in repertoire and performance practice of the choral music of the Renaissance period. Required for all DMA candidates in Choral Conducting.
• CFA MU 888: Continuing Study CFT (Certified Full Time)
  This is a continuing studies course designed for graduate students who have not yet had their thesis or dissertation proposals approved.
• CFA MU 890: Independent Project/Directed Study
  Specialized, individually tailored and guided work on projects not connected with a thesis, dissertation or other terminal document, but of particular interest to the graduate student. Variable 1-3 credits.

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