Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

MUS  543W - Ward Method Music Pedagogy for Catholic Elementary Schools: Course I

Career: Graduate Units: 0.00 - workshop - open to summer non degree students only

Description

Discovering the singing voice; coordinated rhythm gestures in response to musical stimulus; pitch drills; number, finger, and staff notations; ear and eye tests; elements of improvisation; songs in the major tonality graded according to the child's developing capacity; lesson planning and practice teaching. Oral and written examinations required. No previous training necessary, although students must possess the ability to sing on pitch. Textbooks and teaching materials provided. Offered on a rotational basis.

Prerequisites: ability to sing on pitch.

Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

MUS  543AW - Ward Method Music Pedagogy for Catholic Elementary Schools: Course II

Career: Graduate Units: 0.00 - workshop - open to summer non degree students only

Description

Extensive vocal and rhythmic drills linked to creative activity in DO, SOL, and LA modes; repertoire of religious, patriotic, and folk songs. Teachers' manuals provided. Offered on a rotational basis. Prerequisite: 543 (formerly SMUS 543)

Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

MUS  543BW - Ward Method Music Pedagogy for Catholic Elementary Schools: Course III

Career: Graduate Units: 0.00 - workshop - open to summer non degree students only

Description

Continued vocal and rhythmic drills linked to creative activity in Major, Natural and Harmonic Minor,

Modes I and II and Modulation; repertoire of religious, patriotic, and folk songs. Teachers' manuals provided.

Offered on a rotational basis. Prerequisite: 543A (formerly SMUS 544)

Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

MUS  543CW - Ward Method Music Pedagogy for Catholic Junior High and High Schools: Course IV

Career: Graduate Units: 0.00 - workshop - open to summer non degree students only

Description

Ward Course IV stresses expansion of vocal training with drills for changing boys' voices (Junior High--High School age level); preparatory exercises for two-, three-, and four-part repertory; tonal alterations and modulation; advanced studies of metrical and free rhythms; extensive repertory of chants, classical polyphony and contemporary part music suitable for concert performance and participation in the liturgy. Taught on a rotational basis depending upon need, with consent of instructor based upon successful completion (with classroom observation) of prerequisites MUS 543, 543A, and 543B (formerly SMUS 545)

Elective open to all students of the School of Music who qualify.

Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

Description

Study of Gregorian chant notation and modality; performance practice and conducting; sight-reading with tonic sol-fa syllables; rhythmic interpretation according to the principles of Dom Andre Mocquereau, O.S.B., author and founder of the Solesmes Method; repertory of liturgical chants. Oral and written examinations required. Students who have not completed 544 must demonstrate basic music reading skills. Offered on a rotational basis. Prerequisites: basic music-reading skills or successful completion of 543A (formerly SMUS 544).

Career: Graduate  Units: 3 credits

Description

Continuation of 547, exploring various styles of chant interpretation, including oratorical method, mensuralism, and neume rhythm. Development of the Graduale Romanum (Vatican edition). For graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with permission of the instructor. Offered on a rotational basis.  Review of points of technique and style for performance and an exploration of the repertory of available chants for application to current liturgical practice. In addition to classes, students prepare for and perform at selected liturgies. For graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with permission of the instructor.

Career: Graduate  Units: 1 credit

Description

Reading, singing and conducting basic Gregorian chants according to the principles of Dom André Mocquereau OSB.  Exploration of repertory of available chants for application to current liturgical practice in light of Second Vatican Council Sacrosanctum Concilium.  For graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with permission of the instructor.