The Boston Conservatory
Department of Composition, Theory, and Music History
Department Chair: Andy Vores
Room 221 avores@bostonconservatory.edu 617 912-9107
Departmental Assistant: Andrew Jackson andrew_jackson@bostonconservatory.edu
Seminars and Electives
All Master of Music degrees have a requirement of 6 credits of music history seminars. In addition, the MM in Composition and the MM in Orchestral Conducting each require courses in advanced theory.
Music History
Theory
Music History
Before registering for any music history seminar, including MU553 Opera History 1 and MU554 Opera History 2, students must have passed MU551 Introduction to Graduate Study with a grade of B– or higher, as well as the music history proficiency (exam or review course) pertaining to the historical period covered in the seminar.
Two types of music history seminars are offered; MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History courses run for 3 hours a week for the entire semester and are 3 credit courses. MU559 Special Topics in Music History courses run for 3 hours a week for seven weeks and are 1.5 credit courses.
Students may choose to fulfil their required 6 credits of Music History by taking:
two MU552 courses
or
one MU552 course and two MU559 courses
but not
four MU559 courses
Music History seminars offered in 2008/9 are:
Fall 2008
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Webern (prereq. MH4)
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Wagner (prereq. MH3)
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MU559 Special Topics in Music History: Renaissance Madrigals (first seven weeks) (prereq. MH1)
MU559 Special Topics in Music History: Haydn (second seven weeks) (prereq, MH2)
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MU554 Opera History 2 (prereq. MH3)
Spring 2009
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Beethoven's Chamber Music (prereq. MH3)
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Romanticism (prereq. MH3)
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Paris at the Turn of the Century (prereq. MH4)
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for Music Education majors:
MU552 Graduate Seminar in Music History: Music and the Notion of the Sacred (no MH prereq.)
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MU559 Special Topics in Music History: Vivaldi and Corelli (first seven weeks) (prereq. MH1)
MU559 Special Topics in Music History: Schubert (first seven weeks) (prereq. MH3)
MU559 Special Topics in Music History: The Mass (second seven weeks) (prereq. MH1 and 2)
MU559 Special Topics in Music History: Britten (second seven weeks) (prereq. MH4)
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MU553 Opera History 1 (prereq. MH1 and 2)
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Theory
The department offers the following theory courses which may be taken as electives:
Fall 2008
MU413 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 1: Instrumental
MU431 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 1: Vocal and Choral
MU419 Topics in Music Theory & Analysis: Beyond the Double Bar: The Natures of Transcription
Spring 2009
MU414 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 2: Instrumental
MU432 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 2: Vocal and Choral
MU419 Topics in Music Theory & Analysis: Temperament and Western Tuning
MU417 Form & Analysis 3: 20th-Century Analysis
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