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  • 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 831: CFA MU 831: Medieval and Renaissance
    Introduction to paleography and codicology. Scripts and writing. The notation of plainchant. Polyphonic notation from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Lute and keyboard tablatures. Continuous practice in transcribing examples into modern notation and performing from original notations. 4 credits.
  • 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 834: CFA MU 834: Aesthetics, Criticism, and Historiography
    Issues in aesthetics, criticism, and historiography particularly relevant to musicology, such as compositional process and reception, the musical work and recording technology, as well as sound, musical style, taste, and canon formation. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit.
  • CFA MU 838: Pro Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
    In this seminar, students will be introduced to the history of the disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology. We shall explore a wide range of approaches and theoretical paradigms for the study of music and culture. This course provides a fundamental understanding of the disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology from their initial phases to the present. open to graduate students in all disciplines. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 849: Musicology&Res
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 852: History of Music Theory II
    From A.D. 1600 to the present. Emphasis on theories of thorough bass, harmony, tonality, form, rhythm, and contemporary practice. Readings from the original sources. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 860: Ind Study Mu Ed
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 862: Curr Organ Mued
    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 874: String Ped/PRC2
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 881: CFA MU 881 - Choral Repertoire of the Renaissance
    Seminar in repertoire and performance practice of the vocal ensemble music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, approximately 1420-1600. Required for all DMA candidates in Choral Conducting. [ 2 cr.]
  • CFA MU 883: Choral Repertoire of the Late Classical and Romantic Periods
    Seminar in repertoire and performance practice of the choral music of the Late Classical and Romatic periods. Required for DMA candidates in Choral Conducting.
  • CFA MU 884: Choral Repertoire of the 20th Century
    Seminar in repertoire and performance practice of the 20th Century period. Required for 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.
  • CFA MU 891: String Literature 1
    Study and performance of string literature from the Baroque to the present.
  • CFA MU 892: String Lit 2
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • CFA MU 893: String Lit 3

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