Music: Composition & Theory

• CFA MT 668: Understanding Opera
  Exploring opera from its beginnings c. 1600 to the present, this course focuses on close readings of scores and their text/music relationships through a primarily analytic lens. Discussions, in general chronological order, will center on the problems of analyzing opera, and the analytic application to these multilayered texts of phrase rhythms, sonata forms, la solita forma and extended/interrupted harmonic structures.
• CFA MT 701: Doctoral Theory Proseminar
  Preparation for doctoral qualifying examination in tonal and post-tonal music theory. 2 cr.
• CFA MT 762: Advanced Contemporary Analysis
  In-depth review of analytical techniques and terminology developed for diverse musical styles from the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysis of representative works from the literature. 3 cr.
• CFA MT 771: Performance and Analysis
  Review of literature concerning the relation of analysis to musical performance; practical application of theoretical and analytic concepts to performance decisions; written exercises addressing performance issues. 3 cr.
• CFA MT 781: Jazz and Popular Arranging
  Standard notational methods; chord vocabulary; arrangements of popular melodies in a variety of styles; development of materials from lead sheets; class performance of arrangements.
• CFA MT 862: Seminar in Post-Tonal Theory
  Prereq: CFA MT 602 or equivalent. Critical review of readings on topics of current interest in structure, materials, organization, and aesthetics of twentieth and twenty-first century music. Individual presentations and seminar papers. 3 cr.
• CFA MT 899: 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 credit.

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