This course will provide general practices and pedagogy related to recent standards for a comprehensive, sequential middle school general music curriculum. Specific focus on curriculum development, lesson planning, instructional strategies, adolescent behavioral characteristics, as well as diverse materials and resources. This course is designed for students preparing for teaching careers in instrumental music. Instruction will be conducted in a laboratory setting and will include development of the diagnostic and repair skills necessary to deal with the problems most frequently encountered in a public school classroom on the clarinet, flute, and saxophone. For first-semester voice majors, this class meets for two hours per week.
Emphasis is on pronunciation for the stage and readings of Italian song texts.
Italian madrigals, solo song literature, and operatic repertoire are also studied. Emphasis is on pronunciation for the stage and the International Phonetic Alphabet. French solo song literature and operatic repertoire are also studied. For second-semester voice majors, this class meets for two hours per week. Emphasis is on pronunciation for the stage.