321 Instrumentation 3W Instruments of the orchestra and band as to their classification, range, fingering, tone-color, and general use. The course provides for writing and arranging of music for solo instruments, ensembles, band, and orchestra. 322 Choral Arranging and Literature 3S Choral literature, styles, forms, and voicings from the Renaissance through the twentieth-century, and the practice of arranging and composing in those styles. Historical considerations and performance practice are discussed, and criteria for selection of music for choirs are developed. 327 Marching Band Techniques 2F Rudiments used in marching bands and the study of a curriculum plan and the instructional procedures used in the presentation of a marching band show.
Class meets three hours per week.
329 Keyboard Pedagogy 3F Separate studies of piano and organ teaching regarding teacher qualifications, teaching techniques, graded music courses, professional ethics, recital planning, and teaching procedures in the use of the electronic piano laboratory. Offered on demand. 340 Church Music 3F Church music, with studies in hymnology, administration, graded choirs, choral techniques, choral literature, and worship. Alternate years, offered 1997-98. 341 Intermediate Theory 2F Continuation of Music 222 with the addition of modulation to closely related keys, less common chord progressions, realization of a figured-bass line, diatonic seventh chords and borrowed chords.