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Student Review
- The purpose of Student Review is to ensure that students have acquired basic musicianship skills needed for successful teaching.
The process examines students' sight-singing and error detection skills.
Vocal students are additionally tested on their classroom piano skills;
instrumental students are additiionally tested on their knowledge of transpositions and fingerings.
The actual Review process will include:
FOR ALL STUDENTS:
Sing seven phrases. Must sing at least 5 correctly. Major/minor modalities and simple/compound meters will be included.
Identify errors in seven recorded examples of single line melodies. Must identify errors in at least 5 examples. Major/minor modalities and simple/compound meters will be included.
To document mastery, a different level sight-singing and error detection test will be given for:
MUED 4103 and 4109 in October in Fall Semester or in February in Spring Semester
MUED 3100 and 3200 in November in Fall Semester or in March in Spring Semester
RETAKES in December in Fall Semester or in April in Spring Semester
The tests are to be taken during the semester in which the course is taken. The sight-singing test will be videotaped by music education TAs in room 307, and the tapes will be assessed by the professor of that course.
VOCAL MUSIC EDUCATION MAJORS:
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I. Accompany and sing
three (3) folk songs in one of the styles listed below (PREPARED):
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Block chord
Drop bass
Alberti bass
Folk song harmonization will be taught and assessed formally in MUED 4103.
II. Play any two vocal lines from an SATB score (PREPARED). The instructor chooses the lines. The student must play at given tempo.
III. Play a chromatic vocal warm-up, one octave, ascending and descending (PREPARED).
Choral score reading (I) and vocal warm-ups (II) will be taught and assessed formally in MUED 4203.
*INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EDUCATION MAJORS:
Fingerings and transpositions will be taught and assessed formally in MUED 4109.
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I. For a given concert
scale, identify starting notes for each instrument in a wind and string
ensemble.
II. Choose the picture that corresponds with the designated note on each instrument.
Results:
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Any student who does not pass the formal assessment of fingerings & transpositions (in 4109), & piano skills (in 4103 and 4203), error detection or sight singing (in 3100, 3200, 4103, and 4109) will be given an Incomplete for the semester. To remove the Incomplete, the students will need to retake and pass the needed component.
Additional COMPONENT for STRING Students
String students in MUED 4109 must play a piano accompaniment at tempo from a prepared piece.
