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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This class provides students with the principles necessary to achieve complete freedom to communicate before audiences. This is accomplished through class participation, performance, and group interaction. Students study essential principles and learn to master the skills necessary to present themselves in any situation. The course includes study of: the release of body tension through the Alexander technique, the affect of body movement on an audience, and methods to overcoming fear and anxiety. Students learn to communicate the subtext of a piece/presentation through expressive use of the voice, body, and instrument. A student enrolling in this class should have some skill and experience in the performing or dramatic arts.
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1.00 Credits
Admission to this class is determined by the director. Students study, prepare, and perform entire operas or selected portions and receive coaching in the dramatic and musical aspects of performance.
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1.00 Credits
This is a continuation of MUS 483.
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1.00 Credits
As part of APU's Wind Ensemble, students gain instrumental experience through rehearsal and public performance, including a yearly tour. The ensemble is open to qualified students by audition or instructor's consent. A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required.
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1.00 Credits
This is a continuation of MUS 489.
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2.00 Credits
This course includes preparation for and presentation of the senior recital (approximately 60 minutes of music) as a requirement of the Bachelor of Music in Performance. This course must be taken during the semester in which the senior recital is presented. Topics include program preparation and research, stage presence, recital protocol, advanced performance preparation, working with a collaborative accompanist (when appropriate). This course is taught by the student's applied instructor. Prerequisite: Performance majors who have completed 14 units of major applied areas; instructor's permission
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2.00 Credits
This course offers monitored and evaluated professional work experience for the commercial music major. Under regular and periodic faculty supervision, students are placed in a music business environment related to their area of career interest. Placement is limited to situations available from or approved by supervising instructor. Prerequisites: MUS 337, plus any one of the following: MUS 338, BUSI 110, MUS 328, or MUS 428; and instructor's permission (Note: Credit for prior experience is not available to fulfill the requirements of this course.)
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2.00 Credits
The intent of this class is to work in production teams to produce a musical recording project. Each team includes students oriented towards arranging, engineering, music business, and performance. They take on a large project, divide the production tasks, and learn to work as a production team. Topics include session and arrangement planning, budgeting, contracting, preproduction techniques, recording of acoustic and electronic instruments, work process and synchronization, final mix, and mastering. Students are given a budget and use realistic figures for studio time, musicians, tape costs, etc. This is meant to be a shared project, with each student contributing particular skills and orientation to the final product, which can be used as a demonstration of the student's abilities and capacity for working in a production team. As a final step, each student evaluates others on the same production team. Prerequisites: MUS 327 and MUS 428; or MUS 323 and MUS 328; or 10 units applied study and 1 unit each Jazz Ensemble and Improvisation; or BUSI 110 and MUS 338
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3.00 Credits
This senior seminar serves musicians planning to work in the private and/or public sectors, including future full-time church musicians, school music educators, private teachers, performers, and freelance musicians. The course focuses on the integration of Christian faith, ethical issues and professional concerns that confront musicians in the work environment. Meets the general studies senior seminar requirement. Prerequisites: senior standing; completion of the majority of the units required for God's Word and the Christian Response; completion of the majority of coursework in the major; and upper-division writing intensive course
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This is a program of study concentrating on assigned readings, discussions, and writing arranged between, and designed by, a student of upper-division standing and a full-time professor. An independent study fee is assessed for each enrollment in this class.
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