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Master of Music Education Summer Courses - 2008

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June 9 – 13, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Instructor:  Jean Ashworth Bartle
MUED 5550 (01)—Selected Topics in Music (The Child Voice:  Developing Literacy in the Young Singer)—2 hours
This course will profile an in-depth study of the vast musical and pedagogical techniques needed to develop great singing and advanced sight-reading in our young choirs.  Workshops and lecture topics will include selecting effective repertoire, recording and commissioning, touring and your choir, effective conducting techniques, helping inexperienced singers find the singing voice, and effective warm-ups that develop the voice.  There will be a children’s choir formed just for this week and opportunities for graduate students to conduct the choir.

June 9 – 20, Monday through Friday, 5 – 9 p.m.

Instructor:  Jonathan Brooks
MUSC 6110—Graduate Music Theory—3 hours
This course begins with a review of the core components of the undergraduate music theory curriculum with emphasis placed on formal, harmonic and motivic/thematic analysis. This class focuses on the integration of score analysis into the performance of musical works frequently used in the educational setting. An emphasis will be placed on conveying analytic information appropriately in the performance score. Evaluation in this course is based on demonstrating analytic techniques in several score preparations with written support and explanation.

June 12 – 13, Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Instructor:  Tim Lautzenheiser
MUED 5550 (02) —Selected Topics in Music (Positive Connections With Our Students:  Creating a Safe, Challenging, and Encouraging Atmosphere for Maximum Learning Results)—1 hour
This workshop is a hands-on experience availing the participants to the rigors of classroom/rehearsal room success. The curriculum requires an high level of personal commitment from beginning to end, and those who are positively engaged in the process are certain to walk away with many teaching tools they can effectively use in the development of a quality music program.  We are all committed to excellence in our teaching; however, the journey offers some interesting twists and turns. We lead our students to quality by constantly improving ourselves. Success begets success.

June 16 – 27, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Instructor:  Jeffrey Wright
MUED 6010—Philosophy and History of Music Education—3 hours
This course will provide students with an understanding of the beginnings of music education in the United States and the ways it evolved and expanded into our current state of educational organizations and practices. Beginning with the work of Lowell Mason and other founders of the music education movement, this course will demonstrate how music education grew from the singing school movement within churches to become an established part of public education. It will include an overview of important curricular innovations and music education conferences such as the Contemporary Music Project, the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project, the Tanglewood Symposium and the Housewright Symposium. This course will also include a survey of prominent philosophical trends and writers within the music education movement. Students will focus on the writings of Bennett Reimer and David Elliott—two of the most influential philosophers of music education. As a result, students will come to understand the unique role of music within the life of individuals and within society-at-large. As a result, students will come to a deeper understanding of the value of music education and the importance of their work as a music educator.

June 23 – 27, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Instructor:  Staff
MUED 6020—Bibliography and Research—3 hours
This course will introduce students to the major research tools that are available to them as music scholars and will give them practical experience in using these tools. As a result, students will become aware of the breadth of scholarly materials available to them and will take initial steps toward using these tools to make valuable contributions to the field of music education research and scholarship. Included in the course will be an overview of major library reference tools, on-line resources, internet sources of scholarly information, and music periodicals and scholarly journals available to them (on-line and in print). Students will develop an understanding of the type of information in each resource and where to look for a particular type of music scholarship. This course will conclude with a research project conducted by the student that will demonstrate their understanding of how to use various research tools to provide new insights and understandings about musical scholarship and performance practices.

June 29 – July 3, Sunday through Thursday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Instructor:  Staff
MUSC 5510—Seminar in Music History and Literature—3 hours
Focuses on a particular aspect of music history and literature pertinent to the music educator.  Students will be required to use research tools and methodologies to complete a significant research project related to the subject of the seminar.

July 7 – 11, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Instructor:  Lisa Sullivan
MUED 5140—Orff Curriculum—2 hours
This course enables students to build a Schulwerk-based curriculum for their specific teaching assignments. Long-term planning and weekly process lesson planning will be addressed. Teachers will share ideas and teach lessons utilizing the Orff process. Level I and II Orff training at an accredited program is required to enroll in this course.

July 14 – 25, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Instructors:  Lisa Sullivan, Cyndee Giebler, Sarah Hassler, and Jenny Handshoe
MUED 5110—Level I Orff Certification—3 hours
This course serves as an intense introduction to basic Orff teaching philosophy and techniques including the study of rhythm, harmony, solfege, modes, improvisation, pedagogy, pentatonic melodies, ostinati, bordun accompaniments and elemental forms. Students also participate in recorder study and movement skills each day. This course addresses classroom application of Orff practices, techniques, and improvisational methods.

July 14 – 25, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Instructors:  Lisa Sullivan, Cyndee Giebler, Sarah Hassler, and Jenny Handshoe
MUED 5120—Level II Orff Certification—3 hours
This course is a continuation of the study of Orff teaching methodology begun in Level I Orff Certification. It includes the study of pentatonic, diatonic and modal melodies, melodic ostinato, bordun and shifting chord accompaniments, and irregular and changing meters. Students review pentatonic modes and their transpositions, begin the study of pentachordal and hexachordal scales. Students participate in the study of recorder and movement each day. This course also addresses classroom application of Orff practices, techniques, and improvisational methods, including the sequential teaching of dance forms and folk dances.

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PRIVATE MUSIC STUDY (MUPF 5700—5980)
All private music lessons for this degree are intended as to serve as a means for music educators to "brush up" and enhance their performance skills. Lessons are encouraged as a way of keeping performance standards high and maintaining healthy performance practices. These lessons are not intended to lead to a recital or a public performance of any type. However, students who wish to give a recital may petition the music faculty to do so and will be expected to complete the recital hearing process as outlined in the Music Department Bulletin. Private music study is offered for 1, 2 or 3 semester hours of credit in the following areas and must be arranged with the appropriate faculty member before registering: