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Department_Chair: Todd Graber
Department_Chair_Email: tgraber@oswego.edu
Additional_Contact: Julie Pretzat (Interim Assoc. Dean)
Additional_Contact_Email: merchant@oswego.edu

Course_Number: MUS 290
Course_Type: Updated Course
Course_Title: Wind Ensemble

Catalog_Description: 
This ensemble is open to all students, regardless of major. This project-based course is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to become acquainted with the musical literature of the concert band and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature. May be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: 
No course prerequisites. Ability to play an instrument and read music required. Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester, but are generally used for purposes of placement.

Sp_every Spring: Yes
Semester_Hours: 0-1

Justification: 
This course in ensemble performance acquaints the student with musical literature and the solution of problems involved in its performance. The course is targeted at all students regardless of major. Ensembles are project-based courses. Students learn to translate the written musical score into sound, work as a group in rehearsing the style, techniques, interpretation and balance of the whole, and present the final project to the public in a performance. 
      
All music majors must take 4 semesters of ensemble for 0 credit. Non-majors may use the course for elective credits and, pending approval, for General Education Knowledge Foundations: Fine and Performing Arts. It is offered at the two hundred level because some ability to read music and play an instrument is needed.

Course_Objectives: 
The student will gain the tools necessary to bring the written score to life in rehearsal and performance.  In the rehearsal laboratory and on the concert stage, the students will solve the problems and challenges found in the musical score. In the performances by the ensembles, the student will demonstrate an understanding of the principles and elements used in the music under study, sensitivity to, and creativity with the medium chosen.  The work will be presented in a professional manner. The student will demonstrate knowledge of a variety of techniques in working with music, and some historical knowledge of the uses and development of the medium chosen.

Course_Description: Course Outline: Repertoire from a wide variety of eras and styles will be selected and will change from semester to semester. From the beginning of the course teaching techniques will enable all students to find procedures for solving the problems confronting him/her in the musical score.

Methods of Instruction:  
Demonstration, laboratory experiences, individual and group seminars, recordings and lectures.

Course requirements: 
Three hours of rehearsal each week, including sectionals, and a minimum of two performances each semester. 

Means of Evaluation:  
An evaluation will be made of the individual’s contributions towards preparation of the musical score, measurement of individual growth and achievement, evaluation of their class project each semester—a concert performance.

Resources: 
The ensemble uses musical instruments either owned by the students our rented from the Music Department. Audio playback systems are owned by the Music Department. The Music Department supports an extensive library of concert band music. No additional resources are required.

Bibliography: 
Selected repertoire from the wind ensemble literature, such as:
Holst, Gustav. "First Suite in Eb", Opus 28, 1.London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1921.

Jacob, Gordon trans. "William Byrd Suite": Selected from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1924.

McBeth, W. Francis. "Of Sailors and Whales: Five Scenes from Melville". San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Company, 1990.

Persichetti, Vincent. "Psalm for Band". Philadelphia: Elkan-Vogel Co., 1954.

Ticheli, Frank. "Sanctuary". Brooklyn, NY: Manhattan Beach Music, 2006.	
    
Whitacre, Eric. "October". Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Co., 2000.

Other_Comments: 
This is a course that has been offered for many years. This is an update of the course, with a slight change in the name and descriptions to reflect current practice. The course  is now being submitted for general education approval for Knowledge Foundations: Fine and Performing Arts.

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