Choral Music Materials and Techniques

Catalog description

This course is an in-depth summary of the pedagogy, principles, methodology and resources in choral music education, with special emphases on high school choral teaching and community outreach. This course is designed to aid students in synthesizing their cumulative music education learning into a defined and refined skill set in advance of student teaching and in preparation for a music teaching career. An embedded practicum experience at an area retirement center is an integral component of this course. The level of this intergenerational choir parallels that of a 9th-grade choral ensemble; as such it provides an ideal, hands-on opportunity to teach choral music, leading to a culminating concert.