Functional percussion skills, techniques, and repertoire appropriate for use in music therapy practice.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students will have heightened requirements for class leadership and demonstrations. The final project for graduate students will include a robust presentation on a musical genre studied in class and how it relates to the use of percussion in music therapy practice.
Athena Title
Percussion for Music Therapist
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
The student will demonstrate through instrumental performance knowledge of world percussion instruments and their tuning, performance techniques, and sound production techniques.
The student will demonstrate through instrumental performance knowledge of world percussion traditional repertoire.
The student will demonstrate through instrumental performance knowledge of improvisation on a variety of percussion instruments.
Topical Outline
World percussion instruments
World percussion performance and sound production techniques
World percussion rhythms and traditional repertoire
