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  • 1.00 Credits

    Methods for teaching brass skills to students in a school setting. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature selection, instrument assembly, hand position and posture, maintenance, embouchure, tone production, transposition, fingerings, range; proactive teaching and troubleshooting, methods and materials; instrument makes, accessories. Students are required to develop a fundamental playing knowledge of instruments.

    Note: Required of all music education majors. Prerequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 1.00 Credits

    Advanced methods for teaching brass skills to students in a school setting. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature selection, instrument assembly, hand position and posture, maintenance, embouchure, tone production, transposition, fingerings, range; proactive teaching and troubleshooting, methods and materials; instrument makes, accessories, and repairs. Students are required to develop a fundamental playing knowledge of instruments.

    Note: Required of all music education majors. Prerequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 1.00 Credits

    Methods for teaching double reed skills to students in a school setting. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature selection, instrument assembly, hand position and posture, maintenance, embouchure, tone production, transposition, fingerings, range; proactive teaching and troubleshooting, methods and materials; instrument makes, and accessories. Students are required to develop a fundamental playing knowledge of instruments.

    Note: Required of all music education majors. Prerequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 1.00 Credits

    Carefully sequenced developmental technical exercises designed to achieve competency with basic chord formations in all keys. Prerequisite:    Open only to music education and therapy majors. Presumes a background in musicianship, including reading and aural skills
  • 1.00 Credits

    A continuation of Music Education 1658 (0058) in which skills are further developed to include positions and more advanced folk and popular accompaniment techniques. Prerequisite:    Open only to music education and therapy majors
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an experiential course for students in the major. Its focus is on teaching music as a collaborative pursuit involving free and creative personal expression among all people in learning communities. Topics will include (but not be limited to) awareness and development of community music, roles of music industry and music institutions as resources in music instruction, organizing and leading collaborative musical experiences, social and cultural aspects of music involvement, the value of informal music making, improvisation, and composing.

    Note: This course is for majors only.

  • 3.00 Credits

    Understanding how learners develop and how individual learners’ needs affect music learning can inform teachers how to teach. In this course, preservice music teachers study music development from the learners’ perspective and begin to process ways in which music learning theories, approaches, processes, and methods can guide learners’ development.

    Note: Includes field observations. This course is for majors only. Prerequisite:    MUS ED 3661, 4666. Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 2.00 Credits

    In this course, preservice music teachers increase their understanding of vocal development, inclusive vocal settings, diverse music repertoire and transfer of music across in-school and out-of-school settings. Preservice music teachers consider a variety of approaches to ensemble formations (e.g.: non-select/select-implications of inclusion/exclusion; curricular/extra-curricular) and ways in which types of school ensembles (e.g.: Jazz, Show Choir, Barbershop, Gospel, Women’s Chorus, Men’s Chorus, Mixed Chorus) have traditionally been established and maintained. Contemporary research and practice, with implications for new types of vocal and choral ensembles in Pre-K-12 school settings, also will be considered. Emphasis is on building a course of study for choral music in schools.

    Note: Special authorization only. In-class performances and peer evaluations, and observations (in-class) required. This course is for majors only. Prerequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 2.00 Credits

    Orientation to the International Phonetic Alphabet and its application to literature appropriate for solo and choral literature in English, Italian, German, and French.

    Note: Special authorization only. In-class performances of literature in the language required. This course is for majors only. Corequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

  • 2.00 Credits

    This course surveys strategies for the development of the instrumental jazz ensemble in secondary school settings. Topics will include (but not be limited to): instrumentation, rehearsal techniques, literature, listening, improvisation, styles, rhythm, articulation, rhythm section, and programming.

    Note: Special authorization only. Required of all music education majors with band or orchestra emphasis. Prerequisite:    Current required clearances for the Music Education degree program: PA Child Abuse History; PA Criminal History Check; and FBI Fingerprint and Criminal History Report

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