School of Music: Music Theory & Composition
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CFA MT 681: Music of Our Time: Composers and Repertoire
Overview of a cross-section of contemporary composers, and trends in music. Focus on composers and places that have become major hubs of compositional activity and ideas. Composers of many different nationalities and aesthetic orientations will be studied. 3 cr. -
CFA MT 701: Doctoral Proseminar-Skills
Preparation for doctoral qualifying examination in general music theory skills and chorale harmonization. 3 cr. -
CFA MT 702: Doctoral Proseminar-Analysis
Preparation for doctoral qualifying examination in tonal and post-tonal analysis. 3 cr. -
CFA MT 761: Advanced Tonal Analysis
Prereq: CFA MT 601. Advanced work involving analytic approaches to pitch organization, form, motive, rhythm, etc. with emphasis on nineteenth-century music. 3 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 772: Music Perception and Cognition
This course is designed to introduce students to scientific literature on music preparation, music performance, and related topics. It is designed as a readings course in selected topics with an introduction to statistical methods and methods of experimental design, flexible in response to the background of students and subjects of interest to them. Previous offerings have enrolled only music students from a variety of degree programs (Performance DMAs, Composition DMAs, Theory MMs, and undergraduates). This version of the course may be cross-listed with the new undergraduate HUB course in Music Perception and Cognition, MT472, and therefore will only enroll graduate students and remains a three-credit course to best fit into current graduate programs. 3cr Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy. -
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.
