Courses

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

• CFA MH 662: Special Topics: Black Music
  This special topics engages with aspects of Black music. The specific topic will vary by semester.
• CFA MH 670: Special Topics: US Music
  This course explores topics related to Western Art Music in the Classical Period.
• CFA MH 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. 4 cr.
• CFA MH 690: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
  MUSCGENDRSEXLTY
• CFA MH 720: Pro-Sem in Mus eth
  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. 3 cr.
• CFA MH 735: 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. 3 cr.
• CFA MH 754: Music and Culture
  Music and Culture
• CFA MH 761: Contemplating Ethnomusicology
  This course will involve in-depth reading and discussion of key areas of scholarship: music and politics, music and gender, music and religion, music and identity, and other useful paradigms. This course will broaden and deepen the intellectual horizons of graduate students in ethnomusicology and other interested graduate students. 3 cr.
• 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.
• CFA MH 820: Prosem 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 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 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 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 861: Contemplating Ethnomusicology
  This graduate seminar is required for graduate students in Ethnomusicology. This course will involve in-depth reading and discussion of key areas of scholarship: music and politics, music and gender, music and religion, music and identity, and other useful paradigms. This course will broaden and deepen the intellectual horizons of graduate students in ethnomusicology and other interested graduate students. Ethnomusicology graduate students will often take this graduate seminar in their third semester, but it could also be taken earlier. [ 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 890: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
  MUSCGENDRSEXLTY
• 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.
• CFA ML 501: Applied Piano (Hour)
  14 1-hour private lessons provided by faculty for CFA students majoring in music. Development of technical skills through etudes, exercises, and repertoire as appropriate, practice techniques, interpretation of musical styles, and preparation of juries, recitals, and/or auditions, all in relation to building performance skills and command of the repertoire on the student's instrument. Registration by permission only.