Course Description
Applied instruction for music majors in a musical instrument or
voice for the senior year and performance of a senior recital.
Athena Title
Senior App Inst and Recital
Non-Traditional Format
Weekly instruction and recital preparation in a major or
secondary applied instrument or voice, both one-on-one and in
seminar.
Prerequisite
MUSI 3810
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate mastery of appropriate playing or singing techniques and ability to apply principles learned in other music courses.
- Students will demonstrate ability to perform a broad range of literature encompassing all styles and historical periods.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of style and performance practices relevant to each work studied.
- Students will demonstrate ability to play or sing selected scales, arpeggios, and/or other appropriate technique-building studies.
- Students will demonstrate ability to extemporaneously communicate one's own musical ideas through performing and verbal communication from the stage.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic pedagogical principles for teaching voice or the student's major instrument.
Topical Outline
- * Acoustical properties of the instrument/voice and relationship to proper performance technique.
- * Playing/singing techniques appropriate to the literature.
- * Harmonic and formal analysis of performance repertoire.
- * Performance practices of various styles, genres, and historical periods.
- * Methods of improvisation.
- * The experience of public performance.
- * Pedagogical principles and teaching demonstrations.
Syllabus
Public CV
