Representative repertoire from all periods of music will be discussed, analyzed, and performed in class. Offered in alternate years. Special attention is paid to the evaluation of classroom techniques and materials. Also discussed are music education for special students and vehicles for use with children's voices, including performance groups, repertoire, and musical plays. An elective course dealing with contemporary philosophy, materials and techniques for use in classroom music, performing groups, and music theory classes in the middle and senior high school.
Emphasis is placed on techniques for working with the adolescent.
Topics covered include philosophies and objectives for classroom music programs, choral techniques, repertoire, rehearsal techniques, motivation, and recruitment . This course, intended for students in the M.M.E. program, provides students with the tools necessary to prepare them for writing the master's thesis. Specific objectives include familiarity with a broad variety of research topics in muisc education specialization in a chosen research topic in music education, the ability to review music education research literature, and to synthesize findings in a scholarly paper using APA style, a knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods, the ability to interpret quantitative research results based on the understanding of descriptive and correlational statistics, the ability compute statistics for a given body of research data, and the writing of a thesis proposal as the culminating project of the course. An elective course providing an opportunity to pursue a topic of special interest under the guidance of a music education faculty member of the student's choice. The proposal for the independent research project should be approved prior to registration for the course.