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: Orchestral Techniques: Percussion
  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 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 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 Brahms, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, and the early second Viennese school.
• CFA MP 735: Vocal Pedagogy 1
  Introduction to the fundamentals of vocal tract physiology, acoustics, and technique. Open to all graduate students.
• CFA MP 781: Special Topics in Performance Practice 1
  Consideration of major performance issues in the music of Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, et al. Covers topics such as ornamentation, tempo, articulation, tuning and temperament, baroque instruments and their playing techniques, baroque dance, and various national styles of playing. Students perform on their instruments, discuss performance issues, read primary sources and other material about 17th and 18th century performance, compose ornamentation, and listen to and discuss recorded performances. occasional guest lecturers. Required of all historical performance majors. Open to other music graduate students with permission of the instructor.
• CFA MP 782: Special Topics in Performance Practice 2
  Continuation of CFA MP781.
• CFA MP 891: Choral Repertoire of the Renaissance
  Seminar in repertoire and performance practice of the vocal ensemble music from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, approximately 1420-1600. Required for all DMA candidates in Choral Conducting. 2 cr.