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  • CFA MP 502: Large Instrumental Ensembles: Wind Ensemble
    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 511: Practical Piano 1
    Keyboard harmonization skills, sight-reading, technical drills and accompaniment for simple melodic lines. Designed to promote keyboard facility for graduate-level singers. Other music majors with permission. (Required of vocal performance majors in master's degree program). 1 cr.
  • CFA MP 512: Practical Piano 2
    Continuation of CFA MP511. (Required of vocal performance majors in master's degree program). 1 cr.
  • CFA MP 531: Graduate Diction
    One-semester review course for singers. This course is intended as a quick review of the basics and nuances of Italian, German, French, to be supplemented by in-class discussion and exercises, weekly homework projects, quizzes, and singing in class. Knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet is required. 1 cr.
  • 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 534: Oratorio Literature and Repertoire
    Performance for singers: emphasis on style and interpretation of oratorio literature. 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 583: BU Baroq Orch
  • 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 Tech
    This course description is currently under construction.
  • 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.

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