18 courses with the subject AML, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
AML 141442: Applied Music Lessons 1-8 (INSTRUMENT)2
Class Time: 60 Minutes per week Practice Hours: 6 per week Course Fee: $1,250.00/each Individual weekly lesson for music degree candidates with an emphasis on developing overall musicianship and performance skills. Lessons focused on the artistic process which is examined through intensive study of technical exercises, tone development and repertoire interpretation. Works selected from the classical, jazz and popular idioms. • AML 141-442 Applied Bass Lessons Individual weekly lessons are focused on all aspects of technical development and tonal production, including reading of rhythm section bass parts, creating bass lines from chord symbols, and improvising solos off of chord changes. An emphasis is placed on overall musicianship, as well as performance presentation and delivery. Individual repertoire selected to best fit the level and needs of the student and utilize traditional methods as the foundation for the understanding and application of contemporary performance techniques. • AML141-142 Applied Brass Lessons Individual weekly lessons focused on technical, musical and repertoire development, including breathing, embouchure, articulation, valve or slide technique, tone quality, articulation, endurance and flexibility as well as theoretical studies involving scales, chords, arpeggios, and repertoire. An emphasis is placed on overall musicianship, as well as professional skill such as sight reading and improvisation. Individual repertoire selected for the specific instrument in a variety of styles including solos, etudes, technical exercises, small and large group jazz ensemble parts, orchestral excerpts, musical theater and pop. • AML 141-442 Applied Guitar Lessons Individual weekly lessons are focused on the aspects of harmonic, melodic, tonal, and rhythmic concepts, including improvisational skills, technical development, and arranging for solo guitar. An emphasis is placed on overall musicianship, as well as performance presentation and delivery. Individual repertoire selected to best fit the level and needs of the student and utilize traditional methods as the foundation for the understanding and application of contemporary performance techniques. • AML 141-442 Applied Classical Percussion Lessons Individual weekly lessons are focused on technical, musical and repertoire development for snare drum, all mallet instruments (2 mallet and 4 mallets), timpani, multi-percussion, and auxiliary percussion, including hand technique, scales, rudiments, chords, arpeggios, timpani tuning, facility on auxiliary percussion and repertoire. Subjects addressed may include performance and practice techniques, interpretation of musical styles, technical facility, and the study of music theory and history. An emphasis is placed on overall musicianship as well as professional skills such as presentation and delivery. Individual repertoire selected to compliment percussion in a variety of styles of baroque, classical, 171 romantic, rudimental, symphonic, and contemporary pieces on
Class Time: 60 minutes per week Practice Hours: 6 per week Course Fee: $1,250.00/each Individual weekly music composition lessons including a group seminar. Required for all Composition students each semester beginning in the junior year, in addition to AML 141 – 442 requirements.
Class Time: 60 minutes per week Practice Hours: 6 Course Fee: $1,250.00/each Major instrument/voice instruction emphasizes all aspects of technical development and tonal production through the study of traditional methods and repertory. All performance and composition majors study with a qualified professional musician under the supervision of the Coordinator of Graduate Music Studies. Masters’ candidates in performance and composition, must present a recital open to the public at the end of the second semester of lessons. Recitalists must study with a faculty instructor during the semester in which the recital is given. Doctoral candidate in the performance program, must present three recitals. Doctoral candidates in Composition/Arranging present two recitals. Students taking Applied Instruction must attend at least two (2) recitals each semester that will serve to refine their musical judgment and submit Performance Critique Forms to their instructor that provide feedback to the soloist and expand their ability to describe and evaluate musical performance in writing. Undergraduate Music Lessons for Students Who Are Not Music, Music Education, or Theatre Arts: Musical Theatre Degree Candidates
