This course provides students with individual organ 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. A jury is required at the end of the semester. An additional fee is required.
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 degree programs and must appear on student transcripts. This course offer 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.
This course may draw upon the following skill building areas:• practice journal development• body posture, hand and finger positions, pedaling technique• manual technique study, including dexterity, independence of fingers, articulatory control, fingering strategies for melodic, scale and arpeggio work, • performance practice appropriate to stylistic periods• registration principles• major and minor scales and arpeggios• method books and etudes appropriate to student playing level• study of solo repertoire appropriate for first-year college students and/or the individual level of the student• development of performance technique, including memorization techniques, stage deportment and anxiety management
