Materials, techniques, and methods for teaching instrumental music in the public schools, K-12. Field observations, reports, and micro-teaching experience. Prerequisites: instrumental techniques courses, conducting. For Music Education majors only.

Methods, pedagogy and playing. For Music Education Majors only.

Methods, pedagogy and playing. For Music Education Majors only.

Methods, pedagogy and playing. For Music Education Majors only.

Principles of basic voice production; repertoire for beginning singers; vocal performance techniques. For music majors only.

The history of Western European art music from ancient Greece to 1700. Reading, listening, score study.

A survey of opera from its beginnings ca. 1600 to the present. Emphasis on formal and stylistic developments, opera as drama, literary sources and libretti. Reading, listening, score study, and viewing videotaped performances.

This ensemble provides all University members an opportunity to perform in a non-competitive atmosphere and achieve success according to one's individual goals. Students will be required to practice before each rehearsal. One performance will be given each semester. Attendance is mandatory. An audition is required.

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Overview of popular music in the U.S. from colonial times to the present, with a focus on the history of rock. We will examine eighteenth and nineteenth-century war songs, slave songs, spirituals, minstrel and vaudeville songs, blues and ragtime, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, swing, country-western, rock, punk, and hip hop. Requirements:
readings from the textbook as well as additional assigned readings, guided listening activities in and out of class, and written critical evaluations. Substantial required reading and written assignments. (Gen.Ed. AT)