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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
(Prerequisite, MU 124.) Materials and procedures for teaching music in the elementary school through the following activities: singing, instrumental activity, listening, rhythmic creativity and music reading. Developmental Characteristics and the Planning of Sequential Music Experiences for Early Childhood, Middle Childhood and for Later Childhood. Continued emphasis on the use of the soprano recorder, and the use of rhythmic, melodic and harmonic instruments in the classroom.
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1.00 Credits
Designed for music majors who have had limited experience with singing in ensembles or singing solo vocal literature, this course will introduce the student to the basics of healthy singing, how to practice for maximum benefit, how to gain self-confidence as a singer, how to help others sing in a healthy manner, and how to identify and solve basic vocal problems common to secondary school singers.
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2.00 Credits
This course will prepare the music education major to work with and teach string players in the public schools. In a general way the course introduces the students to stringed instruments and string players - a specific way the students are taught basic beginning techniques of string playing and teaching to enable the prospective teacher to instruct beginning string classes.
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2.00 Credits
Students are expected to learn and be able to demonstrate, to a reasonable degree, the principles of tone production and basic performance techniques of the flute, oboe, bassoon and clarinet, and to acquire the ability to sight read and perform easy music for each of the instruments. This is achieved through three class sessions per week and individual practice time outside class.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to give the student a practical working knowledge of the cornet/trumpet, horn, and trombone. The emphasis in this class is on learning how to effectively teach and critically evaluate the brass student as well as developing, as much as possible within the given time frame, the proper playing techniques on each instrument. Each instrument will be studied with the objective of learning the fundamentals of embouchure, tone production, and body position, breathing, articulation, intonation, and care and mainte¬nance.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a practical study of and the development of performing proficiency on percussion instruments and a study based upon the use of these instruments in the bands and orchestras of the public schools, with special emphasis upon teaching techniques and procedures. Micro-teaching experience and the use of multi-media technology in these areas is also included.
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1.00 Credits
(Prerequisite, MU 218.) Class format: listen and analyze techniques of early twentieth composers including Debussy, Holst, Vaugh Williams, Copland, Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith. Information gleaned will be used in student¿s compositional process.
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1.00 Credits
(Prerequisite, MU 360.) Class format: listen and analyze techniques of middle to late twentieth composers including Schoenberg, Webern, Reich, Cage, Cowell, Gorecki, Part Riley, Crumb, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Brian Eno. Information gleaned will be used in student¿s compositional process. Course will explore use of computer with K-11 synthesizer for composition.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Designed to allow independent study in areas which arouse a special curiosity for the student or in which the student exhibits a need for intense research. Student will work with a selected faculty expert in the identified field. The student must complete a departmental Independent Study Form during the first week of class.
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1.00 Credits
The course is designed to give the future music educator knowledge and skills needed to teach marching band in the middle and secondary schools. The student will learn through lectures, evaluations, and field experience how to plan, orga¬nize, and implement the total marching band program.
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