Music of many styles will be subject for analysis with focus on performance practice and application to conducting and interpretation. This course includes a study of music reference and research materials. Basic procedures and tools of investigative studies are treated, culminating in a research project. This will be accomplished through a variety of methods to include a review of texts, teaching, and research. Pedagogical approaches to the case study and the cultural survey will be included.
Activities relating to performing and listening to multicultural music are also part of the course.
Private instruction in conducting and an intense study of the various disciplines in music and their relationship and application to the art of conducting. This course may be repeated for credit. Students with a choral emphasis, MUS 3640 and 8760. Students with an instrumental emphasis, MUS 3630 and 8630. Should demonstrate competency in writing and research of appropriate aspects of music.