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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1206 Woodwind Chamber, First Year

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 0; Lab: 2
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Corequisites: None
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2029
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 25

Course Description

Chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. Available to music majors and non-music majors who wish to develop their musicianship and small-ensemble performance skills. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

This course will provide students with opportunities to explore and experience standard woodwind ensemble literature. Courses like this are taught at NASM-accredited institutions both in the state and across the country. This is similar to brass chamber, percussion ensemble, and string chamber music courses.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will learn the standard woodwind ensemble literature from the Western European and American cultures.
  2. Students will be taught ensemble performance techniques.
  3. Students will be able to respond more sensitively to a greater spectrum of artistic works because of their firsthand experiences with the musical works studied in this course.

Course Content

Students will learn the standard woodwind ensemble literature from the Western European and American cultures. In addition, students will be taught small ensemble performance techniques.While the repertoire for this course is necessarily drawn from a few relatively narrow cultural traditions, effort will be made to help students of all backgrounds understand and connect with those traditions and understand their influences and impacts across cultures.