MCES.MFA - Master of Fine Arts - Comp & Experimental Sound Practices
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Composition & Experimental Sound Practices (BFA)
The following courses are required, but students are encouraged to collaborate with their mentors to create an individualized course of study (combining electives and requirements).
Courses that are listed as requiring enrollment for more than two semesters are those whose content changes each semester and depends in part on the level of preparation of the enrolled students.
Complete SHARED CURRICULUM
MLSN101 Hour Lesson as assigned (8 classes)
MFOR101 Undergraduate Composers' Forum (first two Fall semesters in residence)
MCMP105 Music Notation (in first Spring semester in residence)
MCMP120 Instrumental Composition I
MCMP121 Instrumental Composition II
MTHY203 Musicianship Skills C
MTHY204 Musicianship Skills D
ICOM111 Introduction to Sound Production
MSCM310 Acoustics for Musicians
at least THREE different courses and SIX units of coursework chosen from:
MTHY210 Non-Tonal Theories (3 units)
MTHY214 Counterpoint (3 units)
MTHY215 Song Writing & Analysis (2 units)
MTHY216 Different Tonalities (2 units)
MTHY217 Form (2 units)
MTHY108 Transcription Skills (2 units)
MTHY240 Jazz Keyboard Theory (1 unit, may be repeated)
MTHY306 The Experimenting Ear
MPRF101 Jazz Improvisation, Group (1 unit may be repeated)
MPRF102 Jazz Improvisation, 1-on-1 (1 unit, may be repeated)
TWO units of coursework chosen from:
MCMP308 The Art of the Mix
MCMP369 Production as Composition
MCMP465 Composition with Max/MSP
MTEC270 History of Electronic Dance Music
MTEC365 Digital Recording Studio
MTEC367 Project Recording
TWO units of coursework chosen from:
MAIC240 Jazz History
MAIC401 Improvisation: Uses & Lineage
MHST205 Western Music History I
MHST206 Western Music History II
MHST331 Studies in Avant-Rock & Noise
MHST350 Stylists & Innovators 1961–Now
MHST422 Experimental Music Post-Cage
MHST425 Survey of Sound Art
TWO units of coursework chosen from:
MAIC314 The Music of Flamenco
MAIC316 Blues Before 1960
MHST300-309 Music Cultures
MHST312 Ethnology of African Music