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  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Cr. This class provides the opportunity for future classroom teachers to develop basic understanding and skills in musical elements. Methods of using music in interdisciplinary settings and incorporating multicultural resources will be important components of the class. Teachers will learn how to help children communicate through personal expression, creative exploration, and action. Prerequisites: EDUC 150, 215.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Cr. A class designed for the music education major. The study of teaching and directing techniques for the middle/junior high school learner, with emphasis on the physical, psychological, and emotional development of adolescents. Course will include: 1) general music; 2) choral music; 3) curriculum design; 4) the changing voice; 5) selecting and evaluating age-appropriate repertoire; 6) playing fretted instruments, folk instruments, rhythmic instruments, melody instruments, and recorders in order to employ them as teaching tools. Offered every third semester. Prerequisites: 365, 366; EDUC 150, 215; admission to the teacher education program (music education majors).
  • 2.00 Credits

    2 Cr. Study and development of the skills associated with piano accompanying and collaboration. Students are required to prepare and perform representative literature for piano and other instruments or voices from the sonata, concerto, oratorio, opera, song, and piano four-hand repertoires. Class activities include directed readings, score examination and analysis, textual analysis, listening, coaching, and performing. Prerequisite: MUPI-171.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Cr. A study of the history of Western music within the broad context of relevant historical, social, and artistic trends. Includes an introduction to music of selected non- Western cultures. Survey of the principle styles, composers, genres, and forms associated with music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Consideration of representative works from those periods through directed reading, score examination, analysis, listening, and performance. Development of a coherent and effective writing style by means of various written assignments and projects. Offered every other year. Prerequisite: 152. Restricted to music majors and minors. W
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Cr. A survey of the principal composers, genres, and forms associated with music of the Classic, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Consideration of representative works from those periods through directed reading, score examination, analysis, listening, and performance. Twentieth-century study includes an introduction to American jazz, blues, ragtime, and musical comedy. Exposure to available music research and reference materials in both printed and electronic formats. Development of a coherent and effective writing style by means of various written assignments and projects. Offered every other year. Prerequisite: 327. Restricted to music majors and minors. W
  • 2.00 Credits

    2 Cr. A survey of vocal music from approximately 1600 to the present in Europe and the United States. Emphasis will be placed on broadening the repertoire of the performer and teacher through a study of major song composers of the German, French, Italian, and English cultures. Class activities will focus on stylistic characteristics of this literature through a combination of lecture and directed listening. Offered every other year. Prerequisites: 152, 237, 238, 327.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3 Cr. A survey of advanced literature for stringed keyboard instruments from the end of the 16th century to the present as it relates to both teaching and performing. Consideration of the principle historical eras, composers and genres of keyboard music. Includes a critical assessment of important stylistic and formal features of representative works through directed reading, score examination, listening, and performance. Offered as needed. Prerequisite: 152.
  • 1.00 Credits

    1 Cr. A mixed chorus for all students and faculty that sings a variety of choral literature, including Broadway, jazz, folk, pop, and classical. Restricted to students with junior and senior standing. May be repeated for credit. G5, G9
  • 1.00 Credits

    1 Cr. A select show choir ensemble drawn from all major areas in the university community. Emphasis on performing literature from the pop and Broadway repertoire. Combines voice, movement and stage presence into one package. Opportunity to work with professional choreographers and to explore a wide variety of song styles and movement. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher by audition. May be repeated for credit. G5, G9
  • 1.00 Credits

    1 Cr. A select 60-voice choral ensemble drawn from all major areas in the university. Literature from all musical eras is performed in two concerts each year in addition to a regional or national tour and every fourth year a tour of Europe. Chamber ensemble works such as madrigals and motets and opera and oratorio works with orchestra are studied over a four-year cycle. Admission by audition. Emphasis on excellence in musicianship and performance. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. G5, G9
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