Courses

• CFA MP 532: Vocal Coaching and Performance Seminar
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style and interpretation of concert repertoire. 1 cr.
• CFA MP 533: Performance Skills
  Performance for singers: emphasis on style, interpretation, and performance skills for undergraduate voice majors. 1 cr.
• CFA MP 553: Saxophone Ensemble
  Students will learn musical and technical ensemble concepts related to rehearsing and performing in a conducted saxophone choir. Music selected will reflect a variety of styles. Open to graduate and undergraduate students. 1 cr
• CFA MP 563: Trombone Choir
  Students will learn musical and technical ensemble concepts related to rehearsing and performing in a conducted trombone choir. Music selected will reflect a variety of styles. Open to graduate and undergraduate students. 1.0 credit.
• CFA MP 581: Continuo 1
  Keyboard and other continuo players are given note-by-note analysis and coaching of selected continuo realizations, both written and improvised. Non-keyboard players are given tutelage in basic continuo realization appropriate to their level of keyboard skill, so that they may be able to accompany their future students, and also to better appreciate and have more discernment of the continuo player's role in ensembles in which they take part. Additionally, they will play their own instruments (or sing) in the class so that the keyboard players have practice in realizing figured bass accompaniments. For both, a historical overview of the practice of figured bass accompaniment is given together with stylistic analysis and practical musical coaching.
• CFA MP 582: Continuo 2
  Continuation of CFA MP581.
• CFA MP 585: Baroque String Techniques
  Development of skills, techniques, and common practices for performing Baroque string literature with period instruments. 1 cr.
• CFA MP 599: Alexander Technique
  In depth exploration of the principles of F.M. Alexander's work. 2 cr.
• CFA MP 600: Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra
  The Boston University School of Music Orchestral Program, which includes the Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra, plays a central role in the education of the School's instrumentalists. The primary conductors, with faculty coaches and guest conductors, lead the orchestras in more than sixteen concerts each season including special performances such as two mainstage operas, the Student Concerto Competition Winners Concert, and two annual performances at Boston's Symphony Hall during which the Symphonic Chorus also appears. Readings and recordings of standard orchestral repertoire and student compositions take place throughout the year. The orchestras require placement auditions each September.
• CFA MP 602: Boston University Wind Ensembles
  The Boston University Wind Ensemble is designed to prepare wind, brass, and percussion players for their professional careers in ensemble performance. It also provides future music educators with instutute standard teaching concepts and methods related to the study of band repertoire and performance. The ensemble challenges students through both standard repertoire as well as new music written for symphonic bands. The Wind Ensemble requires a placement audition each September.
• CFA MP 603: Boston University Symphonic Chorus
  Required of undergraduate vocal performance majors. May be repeated for credit. 0.5 cr.
• CFA MP 604: Boston University Singers
  Required of undergraduate vocal performance majors. May be repeated for credit. 0.5 cr.
• CFA MP 605: Opera Workshop
  Undergraduate (juniors and seniors) singers are selected who demonstrate operatic potential, have mastered a beginning level of acting and vocal skill, and who need experience, integration, and refinement. Coursework includes acting, music and dramatic coaching, movement, stage and audition techniques and master classes. The class culminates in performance of opera scenes or one act operas. Students may be eligible for secondary roles when appropriate and in consultation with the student's applied teacher. Students in Opera Workshop will participate in mainstage production ensembles. Admission by audition.
• CFA MP 606: Opera Theatre
  Designed for graduate singers who demonstrate operatic potential and have mastered an intermediate integration of acting, vocal, and movement skills. Coursework includes acting, music and dramatic coaching of scenes and arias, movement classes, diction, scenes participation audition preparation, and master classes. All students enrolled in Opera Theatre will be considered for casting in principal roles when appropriate and in consultation with the student's applied teacher. All students in Opera Theatre will also participate in the mainstage production ensembles. Other performance opportunities may include scenes programs or one act operas. Admission by audition.
• CFA MP 607: New Music Ensemble
  Time's Arrow is a new music ensemble of unfixed instrumentation, performing works for unspecified instrumentation and music of fixed instrumentation, both large and small ensembles and soloist. The group works directly with composers whenever possible. May be repeated for credit. Does not fulfill musical organiation requirements. 1 cr.
• CFA MP 608: Chamber Music
  Study and performance of chamber music in various combinations. Chamber ensembles receive one hour of coaching each week with a member of the faculty. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MP 609: Baroque Chamber Music
  Study and performance of Baroque chamber music for winds, strings, and continuo. Ensembles receive one hour of coaching each week with a member of the applied music faculty in the Historical Performance Department. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MP 610: Ensemble for Pianists
  Admission by audition. Four-hand and ensemble work for piano; works using piano with small combinations of instruments. (May be repeated for credit.) 1 cr.
• CFA MP 611: Piano Literature 1
  Study and performance of keyboard music from the Baroque period through the pre-Classical period. 3 cr.
• CFA MP 612: Piano Literature 2
  Study and performance of keyboard music of the Classical period. 3 cr.

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