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  • CFA MU 734: Special Topics in String Literature
    Focused study on a specific body of String Chamber Music Literature (check with String Dept for topic) through score study, readings and lecture, listening to selected recordings, coached group readings by those registered for the course, and/or possible performances in or out of the class meeting time. Open to String Majors. 1 cr.
  • 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 751: Spcl Tpcs PERF2
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • 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 760: Accmp Practicum
  • 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 774: Fnd&Prn Mu Ed 2
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 775: Introduction to Music Education Research
    Overview of music education research. Research design and methodology to include development of hypotheses, problems and subproblems, qualitative research, survey, observational, causal comparative, experimental, evaluation, and historical research. Ability to understand, interpret, and use research in teaching and learning. Designed primarily for master's degree students.
  • 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 801: Seminar in Theory
    Prereq: CFA MU 601 or equivalent. First semester: speculative studies in tonal music; investigations into unique and general problems of musical structure, materials, organization, and aesthetics. Second semester: parallel studies in twentieth-century areas. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 823: CFA MU 823: Seminar in Music of the Baroque Period
    Topics may include madrigals, monody, early opera, sacred and secular cantatas, individual composers' and national styles, instrumental music, reception, cultural context, notation, analysis, and performance of Baroque music. Permission of instructor. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 723.)
  • 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 825: CFA MU 825: Seminar in Music of the Romantic Period
    Topics may include program music, opera, symphony, chamber music, the Lied, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of Romantic music. Permission of instructor. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 725.)
  • CFA MU 826: CFA MU 826: Seminar in Music of the Twentieth Century
    Topics may include modernism, the replacement of tonality, music of war, opera, symphony, chamber music, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of twentieth-century music. Permission of instructor. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 726.)
  • CFA MU 827: 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. Permission of instructor. 4 cr. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 727.)
  • CFA MU 828: CFA MU 828: Pro-Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
    Required for graduate students in Musicology and Ethnomusicology. This course provides an overview of the historical development of the disciplines, explores research techniques, and introduces influential theoretical perspectives, including: empiricism, psychology, criticism, representation, gender, and globalization. Fall Semester. 4 credits.

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