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  • 1.00 Credits

    Applied Strings develops students' technical skills, musicality, and performance abilities on a range of string instruments, including violin, viola, cello, double bass, and guitar. In individualized weekly lessons, students focus on tone production, intonation, articulation, phrasing, and repertoire from various musical periods and styles. Assignments, including scales, etudes, and solo works, are tailored to each student's goals and experience. Students are expected to demonstrate professionalism, engage in studio events, and cultivate the skills necessary for continuous musical growth and expressive performance.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Applied Brass develops students' technical skills, musicality, and performance abilities on a range of brass instruments (trumpet, trombone, tuba, euphonium, and horn). In individualized weekly lessons, students focus on tone production, articulation, phrasing, flexibility, and repertoire from various musical periods and styles. Assignments, including scales, etudes, and solo works, are tailored to each student's goals and experience. Students are expected to demonstrate professionalism, engage in studio events, and cultivate the skills necessary for continuous musical growth and expressive performance.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Applied Woodwinds develops students' technical skills, musicality, and performance abilities on a range of woodwind instruments. In individualized weekly lessons, students focus on tone production, articulation, phrasing, flexibility, and repertoire from various musical periods and styles. Assignments, including scales, etudes, and solo works, are tailored to each student's goals and experience. Students are expected to demonstrate professionalism, engage in studio events, and cultivate the skills necessary for continuous musical growth and expressive performance.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Applied Percussion develops students' technical skills, musicality, and performance abilities on a range of percussion instruments, including snare drum, marimba, timpani, vibraphone, and various hand percussion instruments. In individualized weekly lessons, students focus on tone production, rhythm, dynamics, and repertoire from various musical periods and styles. Assignments, including scales, etudes, and solo works, are tailored to each student's goals and experience. Students are expected to demonstrate professionalism, engage in studio events, and cultivate the skills necessary for continuous musical growth and expressive performance.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to prepare students in fundamental skills for musicking across a variety of contexts for music and wellness. It includes ways of musicking including music listening for relaxation and musical games for reminiscence; learning basic skills on piano, guitar, and percussion; leading, accompanying and singing songs in a variety of genres with simple piano and guitar accompaniments; adapting, arranging, transposing and simplifying songs; improvising on piano, guitar, pitched and unpitched percussion instruments, and vocally; composing songs; and learning basic skills in music technology.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.
  • 1.00 - 2.00 Credits

    The SRU Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble is comprised of tuba and euphonium players who rehearse and perform a variety of music written for tuba-euphonium ensemble. This is open to all students regardless of major or area of emphasis. One to two credits for every semester of satisfactory participation is granted for this music performance group. The course may be repeated up to 10 times. Additional repeats are possible with a waiver from the department chairperson. The ensemble is also available without credit.
  • 1.00 - 2.00 Credits

    The SRU Jazz Lab Band is a rehearsal ensemble that performs one concert per academic semester. The group does require an audition which takes place in the first week of the Fall semester. If openings occur in the Spring semester, the director will hold an audition for the open seats only. The ensemble rehearses big band literature from every stylistic period in jazz history. The focus of the course is on developing sight-reading, jazz performance practice and techniques, stylistic interpretation, foundational ensemble techniques, jazz band rehearsal techniques, and exposure to the literature, history, and composers of jazz music. This is open to all students regardless of major or area of emphasis. One to two credits for every semester of satisfactory participation is granted for this music performance group. The course may be repeated up to 10 times. Additional repeats are possible with a waiver from the department chairperson. The ensemble is also available without credit.
  • 1.00 - 2.00 Credits

    The SRU World Percussion Ensemble rehearses and performs the percussion music of cultures outside of Western Europe and the United States, concentrating on, but not exclusive to, the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico), Asia (Japan, lndia, and Korea), South America (Brazil), and West Africa. Students learn the instruments, techniques, some choreography (when appropriate), and musical styles in multiple genres for at least one public performance each academic semester. The ensemble rehearses and performs on authentic instruments (whenever possible) or modern, commercially available substitutes. This is open to all students regardless of major or area of emphasis. One to two credits for every semester of satisfactory participation is granted for this music performance group. The course may be repeated up to 10 times. Additional repeats a re possible with a waiver from the department chairperson. The ensemble is also available without credit.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.
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