Music

• 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.
• CFA MU 439: French Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 440: Italian Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 441: English Diction
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 442: Voice Elective
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and perfection of diction. 1 cr.
• CFA MU 449: Senior Independent Work for Distinction
  Individual tutorial instruction and directed study at distinction level. Final project: thesis on original research topic. By permission only.
• CFA MU 463: Creativity and Imagination in General Music
  Prereq: CFA MU 361 or permission of instructor. Students will examine general music instruction through the lenses of higher order thinking, multiple intelligences, and connectivity. This course will present ways that general music teachers can become reflective practitioners who stimulate their students to interact powerfully and imaginatively with music. Teaching which provokes inquiry and creativity will be emphasized. A variety of published and teacher-constructed curriculum materials will be examined, critiqued, and analyzed for their ability to stimulate active student engagement, to anchor core music concepts, to address national and state standards, and to connect music with academic learning. Students will be challenged to create, compose, experiment, research, and design curriculum materials that are substantive, thought-provoking, vivid, and memorable. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 465: Curriculum Planning for General Music
  Contemporary philosophies and goals of general music; content of the general music program from kindergarten through junior high school; techniques and problems of curriculum development.
• CFA MU 471: Mu Ed 5: Choral
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 472: Mu Ed 6: Instrm
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 479: Song Literature 1
  The development of the Lied genre will be traced from the 18th through 20th centuries, focusing on the poetry and musical setting. Study and performance of Lieder, including songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Schoenberg. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 480: Song Lit 2
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 481: Song Literature 3
  The development of the English, Italian, and Spanish art song will be traced through study and performance. Among composers to be considered: Dowland, Purcell, Britten, Ives, Argento, Rorem, Granados, Turina. 2 cr.
• CFA MU 485: Mu Ed 7: Tech
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CFA MU 486: Orchestral Technique
  For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Problems for various instruments in standard orchestral literature. 1 cr.

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