Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 1116
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Symphonic Band I
Semester Approved: Spring 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2024
End Semester: Fall 2024
Catalog Description: Students will perform concert band music selected by the instructor with technical accuracy and expressive musicality. Membership is open without audition. This course provides students with GE credit in the Fine Arts area.
General Education Requirements: Fine Arts (FA)
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1-2; Lecture: 1-2; Lab: 0
Repeatable: Yes.
Justification: Through the preparation and performance of quality band literature, students enrolled in this course will develop an understanding and appreciation of the various styles of wind literature. This group serves all students who wish to play, regardless of technical facility. Snow College ensemble credit transfers to other two and four-year institutions offering a similar band experience.
General Education Outcomes:
1: A student who completes the GE curriculum will have a fundamental knowledge of human cultures and the natural world, with particular emphasis on American institutions, the social and behavioral sciences, the physical and life sciences, the humanities, the fine arts and personal wellness. Students who complete this course will demonstrate an understanding of the traditions of Western art music as they relate to the literature and practice of the wind band in the 19th Century to the present day. They will demonstrate this understanding in their written assignments, their reflections, and their performances.
2: A student who completes the GE curriculum can read, retrieve, evaluate, interpret, and deliver information using a variety of traditional and electronic media. Students who complete this course will evaluate their own performance against recordings of band literature by professional ensembles. They will retrieve these recordings electronically. This outcome will be assessed through the submission of written self-reflective assignments, and through student evaluation of concert and individual recordings.
6: A student who completes the GE curriculum can reason analytically, critically, and creatively about nature, culture, facts, values, ethics, and civic policy. Students who complete this course will submit a detailed research project, analyzing one of the major works performed each semester.
General Education Knowledge Area Outcomes:
1: This outcome will be assessed through student evaluation of their live performances, and through the submission of assigned written assignments. This outcome will be assessed through student evaluation of their live performances, and through the submission of assigned written assignments. This outcome will be assessed through student evaluation of their live performances, and through the submission of assigned written assignments. This outcome will be assessed through student evaluation of their live performances, and through the submission of assigned written assignments.
2: Provide an informed synopsis of the performing and/or visual arts in the contexts of culture and history through reading and interpreting pertinent information using a variety of traditional and electronic media. Students will be able to thoughtfully examine the literature performed in the context of Western history and culture. Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through the submission of research based written assignments.
3: Demonstrate an understanding of the conceptual and elemental principles fundamental to the creation of various forms of artistic expression. Students will demonstrate through live performance, the relationship between the elemental building blocks of music and the conceptual whole of literature selected to be performed.
4: Exhibit an ability to critically analyze artistic works using appropriate techniques, vocabulary, and methodologies. Students will be able to critically analyze their performance of selected works. This outcome will be assessed through self reflective written assignments submitted after each performance.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the literature selected by the instructor through accurate and expressive performance. This outcome will be assessed through the evaluation of rehearsals, playing tests, and public performances.
Students will demonstrate an ability to critically analyze their performance through the submission of self-reflective written assignments. This outcome will be assessed through the evaluation of rehearsals, playing tests, and public performances.
Students will demonstrate ability to play with proper tone, intonation, balance, blend, style, and rhythm. This outcome will be assessed through the evaluation of rehearsals, playing tests, and public performances.
Content:
Students will study and perform a variety of selections chosen by the instructor from the standard wind band repertoire.
Key Performance Indicators:
Students are assessed though
reflective written assignments 5 to 10%
research project 10 to 20%
rehearsals 25 to 35%
playing tests 25 to 35%
public performances 25 to 35%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
as selected by the conductor
Pedagogy Statement:
This course is taught through analysis of selected repertoire, direct instruction, coaching, modeling and group collaboration.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 20
