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

Undergraduate Core Course Information
The Music Core Course is comprises a number of interrelated courses which work most successfully when taken together in sequence and in the appropriate year.

Students are automatically registered for required Core Courses: Ear Training, Harmony & Counterpoint, Music History, Piano Class, Form & Analysis, etc. If a student withdraws from or fails a course the Registrar's Office ensures that this student is re-registered the following year. The Registrar's Office will also remove students from classes for which they may have registered without the necessary prerequisite.

Undergraduate Music Core Course
YEAR 1  
Fall
MU113 Ear Training 1
MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1 or MU111 Music Fundamentals
MU173 Piano Class 1 or MU161 Keyboard Skills         
MU251 Music History 1: Ancient to Early Renaissance
Spring
MU114 Ear Training 2
MU116 Harmony & Counterpoint 2
MU174 Piano Class 2 or MU162 Keyboard Skills 2       
MU252 Music History 2: Late Renaissance to Baroque          

YEAR 2
Fall
MU213 Ear Training 3
MU215 Harmony & Counterpoint 3
MU261 Keyboard Theory 1 or MU173 Piano Class 1
MU351 Music History 3: Classic
Spring
MU214 Ear Training 4  
MU216 Harmony & Counterpoint 4
MU262 Keyboard Theory 2 or MU174 Piano Class 2
MU352: Music History 4: Romantic             

YEAR 3
Fall
MU451 Music History 5: 20th and 21st Century
Spring
MU317 Form & Analysis 1: Fugue and Counterpoint
           
YEAR 4
Fall
MU318 Form & Analysis 2: Sonata and Variation
MU413 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 1: Instrumental (elective)
MU431 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 1: Vocal and Choral (elective)
MU419 Topics in Music Theory & Analysis (elective)
            — Fall 2008: Beyond the Double Bar: The Natures of Transcription
Spring
MU417 Form & Analysis 3: 20th-century analysis      
MU414 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 2: Instrumental (elective)  
MU432 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 2: Vocal and Choral (elective)
MU419 Topics in Music Theory & Analysis (elective)
            — Spring 2009: Temperament and Western Tuning

n.b
• Piano majors do not take Theory Department keyboard courses
• Voice majors begin the Music History sequence in their sophomore year
• Voice majors' Theory sequence ends with Harmony & Counterpoint 4
• one semester of Topics in Music Theory & Analysis is required for Composition majors

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