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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2226 Advanced Women Chorus II

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1-3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2027
  • End Semester: Summer 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 40
  • Maximum Class Size: 60

Course Description

This course will provide group training in a variety of music literature appropriate for women's chorus. Enrollment in this course is by audition. Those registering are expected to participate in major activities of the department. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

Besides providing training for the voice, the choir is an excellent venue for students to feel part of a group. Vocal music majors are required to perform in a choral group each semester of their program both at our institution and at transfer institutions. The choir credit transfers as an elective performance credit for both the major and the non-major.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon completion of each semester of this course, students will be able to accurately perform the music selected by the director. This music will represent quality literature from different historical periods and styles.
  2. Students will be able to respond more sensitively to a masterwork which they have rehearsed, having discussed text, dynamics, phrasing, conditions under which it was composed, and performing it to an appreciative audience.

Course Content

A variety of choral music, written for women's voices, will be studied, rehearsed and performed. Correct vocal techniques will also be studied during the rehearsal process. Information on the historical setting and the style of the musical period will be given during rehearsals.