This course allows students to participate in chamber ensemble groups for woodwind players. It is available to both music and non-music majors. This ensemble will provide students with an opportunity to develop technical skill, sight-reading ability, and knowledge of the repertory related to the ensemble. It further allows students to synthesize musical, historical and cultural knowledge into meaningful artistic expression. Repeatable for credit.
This course will provide students with opportunities to explore and experience standard woodwind ensemble literature. Courses like this are taught at NASM-accredited institutions both in the state and across the country. This is similar to brass chamber, percussion ensemble, and string chamber music courses.
Students will learn the standard woodwind ensemble literature from the Western European and American cultures. In addition, students will be taught small ensemble performance techniques.
While the repertoire for this course is necessarily drawn from a few relatively narrow cultural traditions, effort will be made to help students of all backgrounds understand and connect with those traditions and understand their influences and impacts across cultures.
