MUS 274 Percussion Techniques
An introduction to the fundamentals of playing, teaching, and maintaining percussion instruments, including hands-on experience with various instruments and simulated classroom situations.
Offered
Fall, alternate years
Student Learning Outcomes
- To understand the pedagogical approach to teaching percussion to students at all public school levels and demonstrate rudimentary performance skills on the various percussion instruments.
- Demonstrate performance skills to be learned through outside and in-class assignments and reading of percussion ensemble and solo literature at different levels of proficiency.
- Practice and perform using world percussion instruments using current literature and improvisational techniques.
- Learn to understand percussion notation through short composition assignments presented and performed for the class. Band, orchestral, and world percussion instruments will be included in those projects.
- Learn to use technology to augment the teaching and evaluation of percussion performance.
- Music literacy will be developed with each student given the opportunity to rehearse a reading session of percussion literature. Pedagogy, including conducting and rehearsing techniques, will be discussed and demonstrated with the class throughout the semester.
- Music of Other Cultures: Students will learn about music of other cultures through study of those instruments, primarily music descended from African cultures through study of “Latin” instruments.
- The student will learn pedagogical and performance skills in the following areas: