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Courses: Music (MUSI)

6103: Collegium Musicum
Cr. 1. (1-2). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

6104: New Music Ensemble
Cr. 1. (1-2). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

6106: Graduate Large Ensembles
Cr. 1. (1-5). Prerequisite: admission by audition.

6120: Percussion Ensemble
Cr. 1. (1-2). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

6197: Choral Artists
Cr. 1. (1-2). Prerequisite: by audition only. Premier, professional-level chamber choir performing advanced choral repertoire on and off campus and offering members regular solo opportunities in mass, contata, and oratorio repertory. Large ensemble credit for graduate students.

6197:6297:6397: Selected Topics in Music
Cr. 1-3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. May be repeated for credit with approval of director of the School of Music. Specialized subjects in music.

6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of director of the School of Music.

6200: Accompanying Seminar
Cr. 2. (2-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music or consent of instructor. Techniques of performing as a pianist with other instruments and voices. May be repeated once for credit.

6202: Opera Performance
Cr. 2 per semester. (2-4). May be repeated for credit. Preparation and rehearsal of operatic works for public performance.

6300: Introduction to Musicology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. Research materials; problems of paper and thesis writing.

6301: Pedagogy of Music Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. Teaching music theory on the junior or senior college level.

6303: Advanced Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in music and MUSI 4211 or equivalent. Advanced study of the forms, styles, and materials of musical structure.

6304: Choral Arranging
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or postbaccalaureate status with permission of instructor. Study and application of the principles of part writing, arranging, and editing music for various voice groupings.

6305: Schenkerian Analysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. Reductive analysis, levels of structure in tonal music, and graphing techniques.

6306: Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. Set theory, serial theory, 12-tone operations.

6320: Advanced Choral Conducting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MUSI 4220 and consent of instructor.

6330: Advanced Instrumental Conducting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MUSI 4230 and consent of instructor.

6350:6351: Applied Music Pedagogy
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music or consent of instructor. Methods and materials with an emphasis on teaching techniques for beginning to advanced-level students, with supervised teaching.

6360: Music in the Middle Ages
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music.

6361: Music in the Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in music. Music of the Renaissance from approximately 1450 to 1600.

6365: Advanced Orchestration
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in composition or permission of instructor. Advanced scoring for chamber ensembles and full orchestra.

6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

8106: Doctoral Large Ensemble
Cr. 1 per semester. (1-5). May be repeated for credit. Performance in large vocal or instrumental ensembles.

8197:8297:8397: Selected Topics
Cr. 1-3 per semester. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.

8198:8298:8398:8498:8598:8698: Research
Cr. 1-6 per semester. May be repeated for credit. Pass-fail option.

8300: Doctoral Research Seminar
Cr. 3. (3-0). Materials and techniques for advanced research in performance, literature, and pedagogy.

8301: Seminar in Performance Pedagogy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Study of private teaching techniques with directed teaching.

8302: Seminar in Composition and Theory Pedagogy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Study of private and clas teaching techniques with directed teaching.

8303: Seminar in Music Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Research in advanced theoretical subjects.

8320: Seminar in Performance Research
Cr. 3. (3-0). Examination of special issues and documents in music performance, including composition and conducting. May be repeated with change of topic.

8350:8351: Performance Practice I & II
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0).

8350: Baroque and Classic periods; 8351: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Study of differing performance practices in various periods of music history through examination of treatises and other historical documents, scores, and recordings.

8380:8381: Contemporary Analysis I & II
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Study of contemporary analytic techniques, with analysis projects.

8399:8499:8599:8699: Research: Doctoral Document
Cr. 3-6 per semester. May be repeated for credit.