In the course, students will examine selected Western music theories from various historical eras that likely challenge both their musical intuitions and what they have learned in most twenty-first-century U.S. theory curriculums??in other words, ?weird? music theories.

The Choral Conducting program at UMass Amherst is designed to offer students increasing experience with the technical and expressive skills that conducting demands. This course will cover the practice and exploration of gestural communication as applied to choral music. The course will equip students with advanced conducting techniques, analytical skills, and rehearsal methods necessary to become successful ensemble conductors.

This course is a laboratory chorus that provides conducting pedagogy experiences for graduate Choral Conducting students and undergraduate conductors, and chamber vocal ensemble experience for singers.

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Performance, solo and ensemble. Satisfies ensemble requirement for vocal applied music. Use of opera ensemble literature to achieve ease, confidence, and some command of the stage as actors as well as singers. Class and public performance. Pre-requisites: Applied Voice, audition, and consent of director.

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