Choral and instrumental conducting methods and techniques with application in laboratory situations.

 

Methods and techniques for organizing and training marching bands; planning music, drills, formations, and shows.

 

Repertory Singers is a small choral ensemble geared to provide a real-world, laboratory, and recital conducting experience for graduate conducting students, while offering the singers in the ensemble unique insights into conducting gesture, rehearsal techniques, group motivational dynamics, and other topics relevant to choral music education and the choral art.

 

Preparation and performance of standard orchestral audition repertoire excerpts for violin, as well as mock audition experience. Students are expected to familiarize and prepare the assigned repertoire prior to each meeting.

 

Practicum.

 

Programming and testing CAI music lessons.

 

Musical development of children from birth through age eight years emphasizing auditory perception, auditory discrimination, responses of children to music, modes of learning music, and children's acquisition of musical performance skills, and understandings.

 

Literature, techniques, and methodologies for teaching children music in a diverse society; a study of children's musical development.

 

Performance of works in a variety of styles from swing to modern jazz in a small group setting.

 

This is a performance group that requires additional rehearsal time to function. The additional time will account for what would ordinarily be homework in regular courses. This format is typical of institutions of our size that offer this class.

 

The Steel Pan Ensemble provides students with the opportunity not only to study the traditional music of Trinidad, but also to experience this music through performance. Students will also learn about the history and evolution of the steel pan.

 

Independent research in music carried out under the direction of an area faculty member.