A foundation for understanding the characteristics of exceptional children and the implications of these characteristics to music education. A variety of music materials especially designed or adaptable for teaching music to handicapped children discussed in terms of their practical use for classroom instruction. Students will develop functional singing and accompanying skills on guitar using the music therapy song literature. Second semester is a continuation. Introduction to use of the personal computer and MIDI synthesizer to produce musical examples in notation and sequenced formats.
Course provides a basic understanding of computer operations using a graphical user interface.
Final project demonstrates student's ability to create a complete musical production. History and principles of music notation are discussed and evaluation of final projects reflects both technical and musical considerations. 0332. This course is designed to teach students how to create interactive multimedia applications using authoring software, multimedia hardware, and multimedia elements such as sound files, digital video, standard MIDI files, and clip art. Students will complete a final project demonstrating their ability to effectively use the hardware and software in creating a useful interactive multimedia application for education. Music Ed 0332, Interactive Multimedia I. Students will be able to create multimedia objects using graphics, digital audio, digital video, and MIDI hardware and software.