Acoustical and psychological aspects of music with emphasis upon problems of perception, experimental aesthetics, musical function, measurement and diagnosis of musical ability.

 

Music as human behavior and its uses as therapeutic intervention with various populations.

 

Choral music, including multicultural materials, suitable for all levels and voices.

 

This course will be taught 95% or more online.

 

Choral and instrumental conducting methods and techniques with application in laboratory situations.

 

Methods and techniques for organizing and training marching bands; planning music, drills, formations, and shows.

 

Repertory Singers is a small choral ensemble geared to provide a real-world, laboratory, and recital conducting experience for graduate conducting students, while offering the singers in the ensemble unique insights into conducting gesture, rehearsal techniques, group motivational dynamics, and other topics relevant to choral music education and the choral art.

 

Preparation and performance of standard orchestral audition repertoire excerpts for violin, as well as mock audition experience. Students are expected to familiarize and prepare the assigned repertoire prior to each meeting.

 

Practicum.

 

Programming and testing CAI music lessons.

 

Musical development of children from birth through age eight years emphasizing auditory perception, auditory discrimination, responses of children to music, modes of learning music, and children's acquisition of musical performance skills, and understandings.

 

Literature, techniques, and methodologies for teaching children music in a diverse society; a study of children's musical development.