Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 College Catalog

MUP 161 - Studio Instruction: Brass I (Major)

2 Credits, 0.5 Contact Hours
0 lecture periods 5 lab periods
Weekly studio instruction. Includes participation in student recitals and jury exams.

Corequisite(s): MUS 125 , MUS 127  
Information: Students chosen by audition. Faculty approval required for registration.
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Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Develop a continued emphasis on proper physical characteristics for playing of one’s instrument.
  2. Utilize a concentrated practicing and mental approach for playing one’s instrument.
  3. Expand upon, and the continuation of, the student’s musicianship.
  4. Demonstrate playing of major scales from four (4) sharps to four (4) flats by memory, with differing articulations.
  5. Demonstrate awareness of intervallic relationships and relate them to their instrument.
  6. Develop increased awareness of rhythmic subtleties.
  7. Develop increased awareness of music literature and its interpretation for performance.

Outline:
  1. Embouchure Development
  2. Proper Timbre (Tonal) Production
  3. Accurate Rhythmic Interpretation
  4. Interpretation of Linear Lines
  5. Literature That is Listed as Etudes in Nature
  6. Literature That is Listed as Excerpts in Nature
  7. Literature That is Listed as Soloistic in Nature
  8. History and Theory to be Taught Relevant to Literature Being Covered


Effective Term:
2022-2023