Courses

• CFA MP 650: Orchestral Techniques: Woodwinds
  For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Problems for various instruments in standard orchestral literature. Graduate students only. 1 cr.
• CFA MP 660: Orchestral Techniques: Brass
  For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Problems for various instruments in standard orchestral literature. Graduate students only. 1 cr..
• CFA MP 663: Trombone Literature
  Students will meet one hour a week with a specialist trombone instructor. Students will do a comprehensive study of trombone literature. Listening assignments will be assigned. Students will compile from these discussions a comprehensive annotated music literature list, of their designated instrument for future use. 1.0 credit.
• CFA MP 670: Percussion Ensemble
  For advanced performers on orchestral instruments. Study and preparation of standard orchestral excerpts, critique and mock-auditions. 1.0 credit.
• CFA MP 671: Percussion Ensemble
  Study and performance of chamber music for combinations of percussion instruments. May be repeated for credit. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MP 681: Introduction to the Organ
  Introduction to the Organ, a companion course to MP682 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 MP 682: Harpsichord for Keyboard Majors
  Study and performance of the harpsichord and its literature. Students instructed in the various aspects of harpsichord playing, including technique, registration, basso continuo realization, performance practice, national styles, and the major composers for the instrument. 2.0 credits.
• CFA MP 685: Organ Seminar
  
• CFA MP 690: Orchestral Conducting Seminar
  Study and directed assignments in conducting of significant works, vocal and instrumental, in addition to required attendance at rehearsals of assigned groups. Credit amount varies.
• CFA MP 691: Choral Conducting Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance
  Content includes refinement of conducting skills, study of repertoire, score analysis, and rehearsal techniques. Literature may include Gregorian chant and Masses, motets, and madrigals from the fourteenth- through seventeenth-centuries. Students will observe and participate in rehearsals and performances of the School of Music choral ensembles (e.g. Chamber Chorus, Concert Choir) and the Boston University Symphonic Chorus. Enrollment in these ensembles for credit is discouraged, as participation is expected in order to satisfy laboratory component of Seminar
• CFA MP 692: Choral Conducting Seminar: Baroque and Early Classic
  Content includes refinement of conducting skills, study of repertoire, score analysis, and rehearsal techniques. Literature may include oratorios, Masses, and smaller choral works from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Students will observe and participate in rehearsals and performances of the School of Music choral ensembles (e.g. Chamber Chorus, Concert Choir) and the Boston University Symphonic Chorus. Enrollment in these ensembles for credit is discouraged, as participation is expected in order to satisfy laboratory component of Seminar.
• CFA MP 695: Phonetics for Choral Conductors
  Provides an opportunity for students to develop and understanding of common pronunciation of English, Italian, German, and French for the performance of choral literature. The first half of the semester will be spent learning the International Phonetic Alphabet through in-class exercises, homework, quizzes, and tests, and in-class performance of choral works in English. The second half will involve learning symbols specific to Italian, German, and French, and conducting choral songs in those languages. Classes will meet for one hour twice a week. 2 cr.
• CFA MP 705: Writing for the DMA Recital Track
  Prerequisite: successful completion of MH711. Research, development, and guided preparation of elements of the DMA Recital Track Lecture Recital including: project proposal, literature review, outline, bibliography, powerpoint presentation, and research paper from which the Lecture Recital will be extracted.
• CFA MP 706: Writing for the DMA Recital Track II
  MP 706 is a continuation of MP 705. MP706 specifically requires the writing of the academic research paper based on the outline completed in MP 705 and the creation of power point materials as part of a developed presentation, culminating with the lecture recital at the end of the given semester. 1 cr
• CFA MP 720: Accompaniment Practicum
  Advanced collaborative accompaniment experience and instruction in instrumental sonata repertoire. Required for piano majors in the Performance Diploma curriculum; elective course for all other graduate piano majors; not open to enrollment by undergraduates. Enrolled pianists are assigned to accompany one School of Music instrumental major.
• CFA MP 721: Vocal Coaching for Pianists I
  Instruction in techniques and concepts of vocal coaching from the piano. Open by audition and permission of instructor to graduate piano, voice, and choral conducting majors. Repertoire will concentrate primarily on art song. Students will be required to provide scores as requested in advance.
• CFA MP 723: Opera Arias for Pianists 1
  Study and performance of standard opera aria repertoire for collaborative pianists. Topics include study of recitative, operas of Mozart, and the Bel Canto operas of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi.
• CFA MP 724: Opera Arias for Pianists 2
  Study and performance of standard opera aria repertoire for collaborative pianists. Topics include operas by Puccini, Wagner, Strauss, Britten, Russian and 20th century American composers.
• CFA MP 730: Opera Institute
  Performance-based curriculum taught by full-time and adjunct faculty members, along with guest professionals who are currently in the business or have had significant operatic careers. Includes voice lessons, repertoire coaching, Italian Conversation, Acting, Movement (Stage Combat, Ballet, Period Styles, Commedia, Alexander Technique), Business Strategies, Social Protocols for the Artist, Auditions, and Networking. Singers have the opportunity to participate in two large-scale productions with a full orchestra per year, a Fringe Festival of significant one-act operas, and outreach programs.
• CFA MP 731: Special Topics in Song Literature
  Focused study on a specific body of song literature through historical criticism, analysis of poetry, and performance. Topic varies by semester. 2 cr.

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