Spring 2027

Intermediate Bassoon

Intermediate individual bassoon instruction focusing on musicianship, reed-making, and pedagogical skills for students pursuing bassoon.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Eleni Katz

Summary

1 / 5

Past student reviews · Marc Vallon

The course received a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate developing musicianship, technical fluency and artistic voice on the bassoon.

  • Build strong reed-making and adjusting skills, enabling students to make reeds that respond reliably, play in tune, and support expressive performance.

  • Address specific physical, mental, and technical challenges that may limit musical growth, with an emphasis on sustainable playing and healthy habits.

  • Refine ability to listen critically, evaluate their playing, and set clear goals for improvement.

  • Strengthen core musical skills, including tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, and stylistic interpretation.

  • Exhibit deepened understanding of the historical and analytical context of the music you study and perform.

  • Demonstrate familiarity with the principles of music pedagogy and develop your ability to communicate effectively about the bassoon and the broader art of music.

  • Practice leadership, collaboration, and responsibility as artists both within the studio and the wider musical community.

  • Set entrepreneurial goals and develop a professionally viable portfolio of musical projects, recordings, programs, and repertoire.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM
MUSPERF 215

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  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ELENI KATZ is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARC VALLON is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
IND 032Classroom Instruction0 / 100
IND 132Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Marc Vallon

A student described Marc Vallon as the best professor in the Mead Witter School of Music.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2006: 3.33 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Marc Vallon

The course received a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.

Past student reviews · Marc Vallon

The student gave the course a high quality rating.

Topics

  • Core musical skills: tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, stylistic interpretation.
  • Reed-making and adjustment.
  • Music pedagogy and communication.

Skills

  • Bassoon performance techniques including tone production, intonation, rhythmic precision, and stylistic interpretation.
  • Reed-making and adjusting for reliable response and intonation.
  • Music pedagogy principles and effective communication about the bassoon.

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2006— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
MUSPERF 215 · Spring 2027

Intermediate Bassoon

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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