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Course Syllabus

MUSC 3626 Private Woodwinds III

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 1
  • Maximum Class Size: 1

Course Description

This course provides students with individual woodwind instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical, and improvisational skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 1000 level private instruction in order to register for 2000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required.

Justification

As an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), Snow College is required to provide competent private instruction for music majors in all vocal and instrumental specialties. Private instruction is required of music majors in four-year music degree programs and must appear on student transcripts. This course offers an excellent opportunity for all Snow College students to develop musicianship and performance skills. Courses of this type are taught at all NASM accredited institutions in Utah.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate good practice habits, and account for practice duration and quality
  2. Students will learn and where appropriate, memorize repertoire appropriate to intermediate to and advanced grade levels
  3. Students will demonstrate intermediate and advanced technique skills necessary to perform more challenging repertoire;
  4. Students will memorize music for performance (where appropriate).
  5. Students will continue to demonstrate proper artistic style and technical facility.

Course Content

Students will continue developing their individual technical and expressive abilities on their instrument. This will be achieved through the study of technical etudes, scales, arpeggios, tonguing exercises, and through mastery of representative literature. .