Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• CFA MH 725: Music in the Romantic Period
  Topics may include program music, opera, symphony, chamber music, the Lied, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of Romantic music. Permission of instructor. Meets with CFA MH 825. 3 credits. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 727: Special Topics in Musicology
  Close study of specifically defined areas in the forefront of musicological research. Individual research papers and class research projects as assigned by the instructor. Permission of instructor. 3 cr. May be repeated for credit.(Meets with CFA MH 827)
• CFA MH 731: Medieval Polyphony
  The creation and development of polyphonic music from its uncertain origins in the ninth century through the schools of Compostela, St. Martial, and Notre Dame, to the secular and sacred works of the late-fourteenth-century "mannerists." 3 cr.
• CFA MH 750: Toward a 21st-Century Aesthetic of Musicking
  This course will work toward a 21st-century aesthetic of musicking. Expanding on Christopher Small's reevaluation of performing and listening, students will investigate what it means for individuals and collectives "to musick" in the 21st century through notions of sound, (dis)place(ment), disability, ecology, media, ethnocentrism, morality, empathy, and provocation. After conceptualizing these frameworks, students will apply them to their communities to ground this understanding in the diverse worlds in which they live, teach, and work.
• CFA MH 771: Special Topics in Ethnomusicology
  Case study of specifically defined areas in the forefront of ethnomusicological research. Individual research papers and class research projects as assigned by the instructor. 3 cr. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 799: Master's Thesis
  Ongoing work toward completion of Master's Thesis. 3 cr.
• CFA MH 820: Pro-Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
  Required for graduate students in Musicology and Ethnomusicology. This course provides an overview of the historical development of the disciplines, explores research techniques, and introduces influential theoretical perspectives, including: empiricism, psychology, criticism, representation, gender, and globalization. Fall Semester. 4 credits.
• CFA MH 822: Seminar: Music of the Renaissance
  Sacred and secular music from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Development of larger religious and secular polyphonic forms: mass, psalmody, hymnody, chanson, frottola, madrigal. Early instrumental forms. Music of Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Gesualdo, Lassus, Palestrina, Gabrieli, and Byrd. Meets with CFA MH 722. 4 cr.
• CFA MH 823: Special Topics in Musicology
  Topics may include madrigals, monody, early opera, sacred and secular cantatas, individual composers' and national styles, instrumental music, reception, cultural context, notation, analysis, and performance of Baroque music. Permission of instructor. Meets with CFA MH 723. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 824: Seminar: Music of the Classic Era
  Topics may include opera, symphony, chamber music, the Lied, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of Classic music. Permission of instructor. Meets with CFA MH 724. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 825: Seminar: Music of the Romantic Period
  Topics may include program music, opera, symphony, chamber music, the Lied, sacred music, individual composers' and national styles, cultural context, reception, notation, analysis, and performance of Romantic music. Permission of instructor. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MU 725.)
• CFA MH 827: Seminar: Special Topics in Musicology
  Close study of specifically defined areas in the forefront of musicological research. Individual research papers and class research projects as assigned by the instructor. Permission of instructor. 4 cr. May be repeated for credit. (Meets with CFA MH 727.)
• CFA MH 831: Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology
  Examines methodologies, theories, and landmark publications that divide and connect the disciplines of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Topics may include ethnicity, race, (post)-colonialism, positivism, oral and written traditions, analysis, hegemonies (social and ideological), and hybridity. Includes a fieldwork component. 4 credits. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 835: American Music
  Early music in the colonies. Various attempts to create an individual American musical style. Diversity of influences: European, African American, Indian, Spanish-Mexican, religious, jazz, folk song, minstrel, etc. Music of Billings, Lowell, Mason, Gottschalk, MacDowell, Ives, Gershwin, Copland, and others.
• CFA MH 837: MH837 Crossroads: Traditions in African-American Vernacular Music
  The course addresses elements and aspects of African-American music which extend beyond the confines of blues, including early rock'n'roll, hip-hop, 1940s big band jazz, and beyond. Additionally, the course incorporates a variety of intertextual elements, including literary cross-currents in African-American linguistic theory (as relevant to music), including Henry Louis Gates' seminal text Signifying Monkey and more.
• CFA MH 854: Music and Culture
  Examines music as both artifact and agent of broader cultural developments. The seminar will focus on specific musical repertories and practices within their relevant historical, social, and political contexts. 4 cr. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 860: Research Methods in Ethnomusicology
  Required seminar for graduate students in Ethnomusicology. This course will investigate research methods used in ethnomusicology including field methods, transcription and notation of non-Western music, interview techniques, and technology. Students will critique a wide range of musical ethnographies. This course will prepare graduate students in ethnomusicology to conduct original research, and it will introduce ethnomusicological research techniques to graduate students from various disciplines (including but not limited to musicology, music education and anthropology.) Ethnomusicology graduate students will often take this graduate seminar in their second semester, but it could be taken at any time in their two years of enrollment. [ 4 cr.]
• CFA MH 871: Special Topics in Ethnomusicology
  Case study of specifically defined areas in the forefront of ethnomusicological research. Individual research papers and class research projects as assigned by the instructor. 4 cr. May be repeated for credit.
• CFA MH 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.
• CFA MH 921: Research and Directed Study in Musicology
  Supervision of special projects, theses, and dissertations in the history of music. May be repeated for credit. 3 cr.

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