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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 492
Course_Type: Updated Course
Course_Title: College Choir

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 mixed chorus and participate in rehearsal and concert performances of such literature. May be repeated for credit.

Prerequisites: 
MUS 292 and junior or senior standing. Some ability to read music and sing is required. Auditions are held at the beginning of the semester for placement.

Fl - every Fall: Yes
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.  Students taking the course at the 400 level are expected to have previous choral, singing and music reading experience.

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: 
Audio playback systems are owned by the Music Department. The Music Department supports an extensive library of choral music. No additional resources are required.
Bibliography: 
Standard bibliography not applicable. Each semester the choir studies different compositions from the standard choral repertoire such as:
Carl Orff                           Carmina Burana
Richard Einhorn                     Voices of Light
African-American       Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit      
Calypso song                         Congori Shango
trad. Hanukah                       Ocho Kandilekas
African Folk Song                    O Sifuni Mungu
Johannes Brahms                         Waldesnacht
Other_Comments: Changes in course description, outline, and justification
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