Allyn Phelps

Instruction in guitar for students of all levels. No prior experience is required. Classes alternate between group lessons and individual practice to develop basic guitar technique and finger dexterity. Students will learn to play simple, notated melodies, gain fluency in fundamental chord fingerings and strumming patterns for accompaniment, study selected performance literature, and explore songwriting. Curriculum will be adjusted based on each student¿s prior experience and individual needs. The course may be repeated for credit up to four times.

Introduction to digital music notation software and music theory fundamentals. The course will include the setup and use of notation software and MIDI technology for the purposes of note entry and playback of scores. Elements of music fundamentals will be integrated into the course design to better prepare students for subsequent music theory and skills courses. The topics of music fundamentals (such as notation of pitch and rhythm, scales, intervals, triads, and Seventh Chords) and skills (solfege singing, rhythm performance, and conducting) will be introduced and reinforced through active music-making and the practice of digital notation. 

Second in four-course music education sequence.  Students will engage with ideologies required for initial music teaching license in Massachusetts.  National, state, and district-based standards will be studied, and students will begin developing evidence-based music-teaching practices, and explore anti-racist, culturally sustaining, social and emotional, accessible, and inclusive practices and pedagogies. Twenty hours of outside observation required.  Music majors or instructor permission.

Small performing organizations devoted to the music repertoire of all stylistic periods.

A fifteen-week full-time classroom experience under the direction of the university music faculty and cooperating classroom teachers.

Under supervision of the appropriate applied faculty member and major advisor. The first semester and part of the second are to be spent in preparation for a capstone project which may take the form of a recital or formal presentation of the culminating work of the undergraduate experience. Course previously named Senior Recital l and ll.

Under supervision of the appropriate applied faculty member and major advisor. The first semester and part of the second are to be spent in preparation for a capstone project which may take the form of a recital or formal presentation of the culminating work of the undergraduate experience. Course previously named Senior Recital l and ll.