Courses

• CFA MU 371: Student-Teaching 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 372: Student-Teaching Practicum 2; 5-8
  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 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 374: String Pedagogy and Practicum 2
  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 380: Instrumental Conducting
  Basic skills--beat patterns, use of each hand, study of musical terminology, transposition, tempi, and dynamics; simple score reading and conducting experience with emphasis on instrumental techniques. 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 395: Opera Project
  Designed to provide a basic understanding for undergraduate singers (freshmen and sophomores) 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. Students in the class will be considered for ensemble participation in the mainstage productions. Admission by audition.
• 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 406: Tonal Counterpoint [Counterpoint 2]
  The study of the early eighteenth-century styles of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, with an emphasis on the relationship between theory and practice. Special attention will be paid to composing and analyzing invertible counterpoint, canon, two-part inventions and fugue. This is an undergraduate course, cross-listed with the graduate course MU705. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MU 407: Ear-Training and Sight-Singing 5
  Prereq: CFA Mu 208 or placement by examination. Continuation of CFA MU 208. Advanced work in preparing chromatic and disjunct material, sight-singing, rhythmic reading, and dictation. May be taken for graduate credit with permission. 1.0 credit.
• 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 412: Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 2
  Prereq: CFA MU411 or MU611 or equivalent experience and permission from instructor. This course seeks to expand to students the aesthetic and technical knowledge in the domains of computer music, sound manipulation and sound recording. It also seeks to introduce Computer Assisted Composition environments and real-time interaction between electronics and instruments. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.
• CFA MU 415: Graduate Music History Review I
  Review of music history and literature from the Middle Ages to 1750. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MU 416: Teaching and Learning of Traditional American Music
  Review of music history and literature from 1750 to the present. 2 cr.
• 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.

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