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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1760 Woodwind Methods and Pedagogy II

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
  • Semesters Offered: Spring
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2019
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2025
  • End Semester: Summer 2025
  • Optimum Class Size: 10
  • Maximum Class Size: 15

Course Description

This course teaches the fundamentals of playing and teaching the single reed instruments of the woodwind family. It is optional, but strongly encouraged, as it satisfies the instrumental music education major's requirements at most four-year institutions.

Justification

This course is an important requirement in an instrumental music education degree. Most other institutions in the state offer this course beginning in the freshman year, generally at the 1000 or 2000 level. A student may take this course at any time during their four-year career. However, offering this course at Snow enables students to be further ahead when they transfer.It also serves students who are attempting to complete the pathway to licensure through Weber State University.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will learn to play basic exercises and solos on the clarinet and saxophone.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to teach basic concepts of clarinet and saxophone playing.
  3. Students will demonstrate the ability to diagnose and fix common problems in beginning to intermediate saxophone and clarinet player's performances.
  4. Students will learn and write about the history of the clarinet and the saxophone.
  5. Students will learn about resources available in the form of books, articles, websites, people, and businesses that could help a student as they enter the classroom and begin teaching.

Course Content

This class teaches students how to teach the fundamentals of good clarinet or saxophone playing including tone production, embouchure, hand position, fingering, technique, blowing and breathing, intonation, reed selection, and vibrato. Students will learn to play these instruments at a junior high level.