Course Objectives
This class serves as an accelerated continuation of the ear training sequence with an emphasis on score reading. Beginning with a focus on singing in various clefs and transpositions, there will be a gradual increase in sight-reading and transposing at the keyboard as the semester progresses. Beginning repertoire consists of a combination of drills and a cross-section of works for small ensembles, from Renaissance motet, Bach chorales, Monteverdi overtures to Classical string quartets.

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
PREPARATORY EXERCISES IN SCORE READING
R.O. Morris and Howard Ferguson
Oxford University Press, 1968
ISBN: 9780193214750

MANUEL PRATIQUE
Georges Dandelot
Editions Durand
ISBN: 9787399962751

TWELVE STRING QUARTETS
Joseph Haydn
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486239330

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Advanced Solfège and Score Reading 1: Vocal and Choral
MU431 undergradute registration
MU531 graduate registration
Fall Semester 2010 (this course runs every other year)
Credits: MU431: 2 credits, MU531: 1 credit
Prequisites: Ear Training 4 or Graduate Ear Training (exam or proficiency)
Instructor: William Cutter wcutter@bostonconservatory.edu

Course Objectives
This course, offered every other Fall and required for all Choral Conducting MM students, is based primarily in the choral repertoire. It provides the opportunity to realize theoretical concepts through keyboard work and advanced harmonic and formal analysis. The literature is approached chronologically to give a firm and practical understanding of the growth of harmonic language in the following areas:

Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
• Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Schütz, Purcell, Handel, Bach
• Clef reading (F, G and C)
• four-part choral open score reading
• realization of figured bass, improvisation over a figured bass
Classic and early Romantic
• Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert
• string quartet open score reading
• Common Practice tonal and formal analysis

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
MUSIC FOR SIGHTSINGING
Robert W. Ottman
Prentice Hall, 6th Edition, 2004
ISBN: 0131896628

PREPARATORY EXERCISES IN SCORE READING
R.O. Morris and Howard Ferguson
Oxford University Press, 1968
ISBN: 019321475X

ORGANIZING TIME
William Cutter
Roger Dean Publishing Co.
ISBN: 0893281522

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35%

Course Objectives
From playing minuets and trio movements from symphonies of Mozart and Haydn at the keyboard, the course materials increase in harmonic and rhythmic complexity—more, and more varied, transposing instruments and larger forces are encountered as the semester progresses. The aim of this course is for students to be able to sightread a late Romantic and an early 20th-century orchestral score at the keyboard.

Textbooks
PREPARATORY EXERCISES IN SCORE READING
MANUEL PRATIQUE
see MU413/MU513 Advanced Solfège and Score Reading: Instrumental 1