Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

The intention of this 300-level course (MUS 360) for the undergraduate music major (BM, BME, BMA) at DePauw University is to create in those music students a fundamentally sound physical, intellectual, and intuitive conducting skill through the use and application of information from a structured text which includes sets of exercises that will be used in an interactive classroom. Supported by other areas of personal study, as the student continues to develop artistic excellence and creativity, the student will become a more accomplished conductor, based on the critical thinking skills that this foundation in Conducting One will have provided.

Student Outcomes

Because many of these music students (especially, BME) will find themselves in a position of responsibility conducting a group of musicians, either academic or professional, choral or instrumental, the student learning outcomes of the course must prepare students for that eventuality and will include-- developing a correct, personal conducting beat pattern set, one which is shown through obvious and refined but comfortable body language; developing an undeniably correct sense of tempo that can be maintained involuntarily and is reliable; assembling an understanding of “the score” and its study and how to interpret what is there; developing the ability to listen while involved in all the other activities of conducting; developing good narrative, descriptive and interactive leadership skills; developing a sense of musical rehearsal priorities that will create efficient rehearsals and accomplish rehearsal goals, and; understanding the progression of how to gauge preparation of a piece of music to finally accomplish a performance of it.

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