2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    May 29, 2025  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MUSE 221 - Symphony Orchestra II


Credits: 1
Description
This course is intended for orchestral conductors to develop a broad based knowledge of performance practices within orchestral literature from the Renaissance to the Present. In addition to course participation as an instrumentalist, students will participate in the teaching, rehearsing and conducting of specific pieces in order to develop rehearsal techniques relating to individual styles within the standard orchestral literature. 

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. To identify best-practice performance techniques specific to style periods within orchestral literature, (i.e. bowing techniques, dynamic implications, melodic interpretation).
  2. Develop and demonstrate rehearsal strategies to teach stylistic performance techniques specific to the many periods within orchestral literature.
  3. Create a short research/reference document revealing the findings during the course of the semester.

Prerequisite: MUSE 121  or Instructor Approval
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade
May Be Repeated: Four times for a total of 4 credits



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