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 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 651: Symphonic Literature 1
  This course is an in-depth score study of a wide range of symphonic & orchestral music from the beginning of orchestral repertoire to the current day.
• CFA MP 652: Symphonic Literature 2
  This course is a survey of symphonic music from the 20th century to the present.
• 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. 1 cr
• CFA MP 680: Score Reading
  This course is designed to refine skills for effective score reading. Students will study topics crucial to studying and analyzing full scores. Topics include reading clefs and transpositions away from and at the piano, score reduction, aural skills, principles of sight reading, and developing skills to read and reduce full scores.
• 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
  Organ Seminar. Contact the School of Music for more information regarding this course.
• CFA MP 690: Orchestral Conducting Seminar
  Students enrolled in Orchestral Conducting Seminar study orchestral repertoire in detail, including the role of the conductor as collaborator and accompanist in both vocal and concerto repertoire. Attention is given to the conductor's role in tuning an orchestra, development of orchestral sound, and study of string, wind, bass and percussion techniques. (3cr; may be repeated for credit; required for all MM and DMA orchestral conducting majors; open to non-conducting majors only by permission of instructor)
• CFA MP 700: ORCH CONDUCTING
  ORCH CONDUCTING
• 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 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 Techniques
  Concentrated instruction in vocal coaching techniques from the piano. Required for MM collaborative piano majors; open by permission of instructor to graduate pianists. 1 credit. Fall semester only.
• 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 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: Selected Topics in Song Literature
  Focus on the nineteenth-century Lied. Song study will occur in the context of the socio-political transformation of German-speaking lands during this period, which brought about a great flowering of folk poetry, literature, and musical achievement. Composers will include Beethoven, Schubert, Loewe, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner.
• CFA MP 735: Vocal Pedagogy 1
  Introduction to the fundamentals of vocal tract physiology, acoustics, and technique. Open to all graduate students.