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A piano teaching practicum where students observe and teach advanced undergraduates under studio professor supervision.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Graduate jazz ensemble course focusing on rehearsing and performing classic jazz repertoire in live settings, with an emphasis on technical accuracy, stylistic authenticity, and ensemble interaction.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced woodwind ensemble course involving assignments in performing ensemble literature and auditions for placement.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced brass ensemble course focusing on performing ensemble literature, requiring auditions for placement, with outcomes covering brass chamber repertoire performance, score study, and ensemble logistics.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced percussion ensemble course involving performance assignments and auditions, focusing on chamber music skills, rehearsal protocols, and score study.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced string ensemble course involving assignments in performing ensemble literature, requiring auditions for placement, focused on improving instrumental technique.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

University Symphony Orchestra course combining performance with study of performance practice and orchestral literature; students audition for placement before the semester begins.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced classical guitar ensemble course focusing on rehearsal and performance of duos, trios, and quartets.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Advanced wind ensemble course for students with exceptional performance ability, focusing on chamber and large ensemble settings.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Concert Band course involving rehearsal and performance of band literature with study of performance practice. Students audition for placement.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Chorale involves the performance and study of choral chamber music, requiring students to audition for placement before the semester begins.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Concert Choir course involving performance, study of performance practice and choir literature, with auditions for placement before the semester begins.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

University Chorus explores and performs standard choral literature.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

All-University String Orchestra covers rehearsal and study of string orchestra literature at the introductory level.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

The University Symphony Orchestra involves playing and publicly performing symphonic repertoire, with an audition requirement for entry.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

A course in Baroque counterpoint focusing on analysis and stylistic composition of 17th- and 18th-century techniques, including fugues and figured bass.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Graduate Instrumental Conducting Laboratory develops conducting skills by leading an ad hoc ensemble of 9-20 musicians in rehearsal and performance on orchestral and wind ensemble repertoire.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Seminar in Piano Pedagogy covering interpretive and technical approaches to advanced keyboard performance and examining current pedagogical trends for undergraduate piano instruction.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Piano Pedagogy Workshop assists DMA students in developing a public pedagogical workshop for piano teachers, addressing approved areas of keyboard pedagogy.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Seminar studying major duo sonata works for single instrument and piano, focusing on interpretive and technical issues for collaborative musicians.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Seminar in Instrumental Literature covering comprehensive study of major works for specific instruments, focusing on interpretive and technical issues for the advanced musician.

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Independent Work is a course for faculty-mentored individual study and research in music.

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Seminar in Composition covering musical forms, contemporary performance practice, electronic music, and intermedia.

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Individual research study with a faculty mentor for writing a master's thesis in Music.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

PHD DISS/DMA PROJECT is an individual research study with a faculty mentor.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Beginning Class Piano provides group instruction in beginning piano, focusing on basic keyboard skills and technical facility at the keyboard.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Group instruction in beginning piano focusing on developing keyboard skills, technical facility, and independent musicianship through sight-reading and theory application.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Group instruction in intermediate piano focusing on keyboard skills, sight-reading, theory application, harmonization, transposition, and improvisation.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Develops basic jazz piano skills for solo, accompaniment, and ensemble playing, covering chord symbols, voicings, improvisation, and lead sheet performance.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Introductory voice course for non-music majors covering vocal technique, tone production, breathing, diction, and basic musicianship through individual and group singing.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources