UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
MUSIC HISTORY SEMINAR:
"American Musical Theater"
MUH 6935 (Spring 2014)
Instructor: Scott Warfield

SECTION 1 (class # 10862) Class Meetings: Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: PAC M 263

This web page and its associated links serves as a communications site for MUH 6935 (Spring 2014) at the University of Central Florida. Posted here are various information pages, assignments, study guides, and links to useful web sites. Students in this course are free to print any of these pages for their own use.

Syllabus (Spring 2014) - Overview of the course, grading policies, etc.

Schedule - Tentative list of weekly topics for discussion

Assignments - A complete list of all specific assignments, class announcements, and other reminders in chronological order for Spring 2014

Assignments - Instruction Sheets for MUH 6935 out-of-class projects

Course Readings and Collective Bibliography

A list of all items (Books, Articles, Scores & Recordings) used in the seminar and now in the UCF Library for use in your studying.

Useful Web Sites

Libraries and Search Tools

UCF Library
Home page of the UCF Library, with full access to the online catalog. On-campus users and those with a UCF ISP may also have access to the online versions of the following electronic databases:
The Library of Congress
Home page of the largest library and largest music library in the world. Search its catalog via the link near the top of the page.
Doctoral Dissertations in Music On-Line
A searchable index of doctoral dissertations written in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Although primarily an index of American dissertations, it also includes many of the more recent European dissertations.
Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection (Johns Hopkins University)
One of the largest scanned collections of sheet music in the United States, consisting of about 29,000 items, chiefly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
University of California, Santa Barbara - Davidson Library; "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project"
A major project to digitize cylinder recordings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over 10,000 items have been converted to date.

Useful Websites for Musical Theater

Internet Broadway Database
Playbill
Lortel Archives
Tony Awards
New York Obies Theater Awards
TKTS
Musical of the Month (New York Public Library)
Music Theatre Online

Local Concert Information

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
As Central Florida's local professional symphony orchestra, the OPO performs a variety of concert series in and around Orlando. Follow the “Events” link on the home page to view the various concert series they present.
The Winter Park Bach Festival
The Winter Park Bach Festival is internationally known as the fourth oldest Bach Festival in the United States, having been founded in 1935 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This organization hosts a series of classical concerts throughout the year, as well as an extended Bach Festival in the early spring, on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park.

Local & Regional Broadcasting Information

WUCF-FM (89.9)
The web site of the University of Central Florida's own non-commercial radio station. Its programming is primariliy jazz, but WUCF also carries some NPR programming, including Saturday broadcasts of The Metropolitan Opera. WUCF-FM is available to you through the Internet to anyone with a Real Player Plug-in.
WMFE-FM (90.7)
Orlando's public radio station broadcasts primarily classical music, news, and other NPR programming 24-hours a day. Click on "Listen Live" on the tool bar at the top of the home page to reach the web link for listening to WMFE's broadcast.
WUFT-FM (89.1)
The University of Florida's public radio station in Gainesville broadcasts a mix of classical, jazz, folk, and world music, as well as news and NPR programming 24-hours a day. WUFT-FM can be heard through the web link on their home page.

Web Sites for Downloadable Computer & Internet Tools

Real.com
Web site of "Real Player," one of the standard plug-ins that you might need to listen to web broadcasts and streaming audio, or to play CDs through your computer. The basic player can be downloaded at now cost from this site.
Windows Media
Web site of "Windows Media Player," another plug-in the is used for listening to web broadcasts, streaming audio and CDs.
Sibelius
Web site of one of the most widely used software packages for writing and printing music with computers. Various demo versions and upgrades are available for downloading, as is a help center for users.
Finale
The Web site of Coda Music, makers of the widely used Finale program for writing and printing music. A basic form of the program is available as a free download.