(3)This course is designed to prepare the pre-service teacher to direct concert, marching, jazz, and other school band organizations. Emphasis will focus on rehearsal techniques, the criteria for selection of music, understanding various systems of difficulty ratings, aesthetic concerns in the selection of music, programming, fund raising, and administrative issues for beginning, intermediate, and advanced ensembles. It will also include a study of band literature for elementary, middle school, high school, and college instrumental ensembles. Includes 10 field hours.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 262 or permission of department chair.
Offered Spring 2022 and alternate Spring semesters.
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