Courses

A sequel to PSIJ-215, this course continues the process of building and retaining a functional repertoire of jazz standards in bebop, Latin, ballad, and contemporary styles.

Historic, stylistic, and performance-based overview of the compositions and improvisations of Wayne Shorter, covering the period from the late 1950s to the present.

Performance-centered class emphasizing the essential elements of jazz language and vocabulary-chord scales, chord tones, approach notes and target notes, scale motifs and sequences, and lines.

Performance and analysis of standard songs used in jazz repertoire and the traditional forms and techniques used in creating them.

This course allows students to learn and demonstrate skills in music therapy group leading.

Students are placed in a public or private school that serves children with special needs, primarily in small groups.

This course will examine the psychological, physiological, and sociological foundations of music and music therapy.

Students are assigned to music therapy groups with older adults in nursing home and adult day care settings. Students are introduced to a data-based model of music therapy.

This course is the concurrent clinical music therapy practicum that accompanies MTH-331. Students apply the research skills they are learning in the classroom to a clinical setting.