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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2156 Community Chorus

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1-3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2027
  • End Semester: Summer 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 100
  • Maximum Class Size: 150

Course Description

The Community Chorus prepares and performs choral masterworks, including the annual Snow College production of Handel's Messiah, along with additional concerts during the year. Course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

The Community Chorus is a standard ensemble at most 4-year colleges and universities. This ensemble serves three primary purposes: 1) to augment the daytime student choirs for the annual production of Handel's Messiah, 2) to produce additional concerts both alone and in tandem with the Community Orchestra, and 3) to establish a strong link between community members and the college. This course will transfer as performance credit, but may also be taken as a non-credit course.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will gain an understanding of the literature they are performing in stylistic, expressive, formal and historical contexts.
  2. Students will be able to respond more sensitively to a masterwork which they have rehearsed, having discussed text, dynamics, phrasing, conditions under which it was composed, and performing it to an appreciative audience.
  3. Students will be asked to write a short essay on how learning and performing the Messiah has added to their knowledge of music performance practices, vocal techniques, and historical periods.

Course Content

A variety of choral music will be studied, practiced individually and in rehearsal, and performed. Correct vocal techniques will also be studied during the rehearsal process. Information on the historical setting and the style of the musical period will be given during rehearsals.