Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 4196
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Brass Chamber Music IV
Semester Approved: Fall 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2025
End Semester: Summer 2025
Catalog Description: In this course students participate in a group ensemble experience on brass instruments. It is designed for capable brass players. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. This course may be repeated for credit.
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
Repeatable: Yes.
Prerequisites: MUSC 3196 or permission of instructor. Audition required.
Justification: Music majors in general and performance majors in particular are required to participate in a chamber music experience. Playing in this kind of ensemble provides a focus on intonation, articulation and style that is not possible to achieve in a larger ensemble. This course will transfer as a performance credit. Most four-year institutions with music programs offer chamber music opportunities for undergraduates.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to communicate the understanding which they have gained to their audiences. This outcome will be assessed via the end of semester concert.
Students will be able to accurately perform the rhythms, melodies and harmonies of the music selected by the director; This outcome will be assessed via evaluation of regular classroom participation, sectional rehearsals, and concerts, and through self-evaluation of concert recordings.
Students will be able to perform essential skills as part of a section, including, proper intonation blend and balance; This outcome will be assessed via evaluation of regular classroom participation, sectional rehearsals, and concerts, and through self-evaluation of concert recordings.
Students will be able to show improvement in both speed and accuracy of literature learning as measured by small group assessment; This outcome will be assessed via evaluation of regular classroom participation, sectional rehearsals, and concerts, and through self-evaluation of concert recordings.
Students will be able to understand the music in its historical setting as well as the stylistic, expressive, and formal qualities associated with the particular era of music history; This outcome will be assessed via evaluation of regular classroom participation, sectional rehearsals, and concerts, and through self-evaluation of concert recordings.
Content:
Members of the ensemble will learn and perform appropriate literature as selected by the instructor. Content includes study of:
• Intonation
• Balance
• Blend
• Articulation
• Historical Context
• Performance Practice
Key Performance Indicators:
Students in instrumental music performance courses are assessed in the following ways (percentages are approximate):
Participation Rates - Attendance at class sessions 20 to 30%
Group Project - Participation in concert recording review and critique 20 to 30%
Presentation/Performance - sectional rehearsal participation and performance 20 to 30%
Presentation/Performance - Concert participation and performance 20 to 30%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Literature is taken from the Snow College score library.
Pedagogy Statement:
This course will be delivered via direct instruction, group collaboration, modeling, and mentoring.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 16
