INTRO and SFT Module
Welcome to BLP 2023
The purpose of this course is to equip students with a working knowledge of the literature and pedagogical techniques and sources for all of the brass instruments. The course is well suited and required for all advanced performance majors seeking a career in full time professional performance or teaching at the collegiate level. The semester will be divided into four units presented by the four resident brass faculty.
Each professor will present the history and development of their instrument(s), demonstrating how the literature from each period reflects composers’ working knowledge of these instruments in their time and the performance capabilities of those performing their works. Discussions regarding historical and contemporary concepts and performance techniques based upon listening assignments, will be included in each of the four units.
Course schedule:
Wednesday Feb 15 - Intro and SFT
Monday Feb 20 - trombone history presentations in class
Wednesday Feb 22 - BP's Ped Demo
Monday Feb 27 - BP's audition skills, mental toughness training, pedagogy
Wednesday March 1 - BLP Rep presentations round 1
Monday March 13 - BLP Rep presentations round 2 and Orchestral Listening Lab preview
Wednesday March 15 - Orchestral Listening Lab presentations
Other specific areas of study, often presented through weekly student projects and listening assignments, will include:
Lesson Observations: significant portion of this class will include the observation of several applied lessons within each of the brass area studios. A brass_area_lesson_observa.doc Lesson Observation Form, to be completed for each lesson, should be included in the comprehensive notebook. Pedagogical techniques observed in these sessions will be presented/discussed in the weekly meeting and the brass studio classes. Lesson Observations should be completed and turned in during the same time as the corresponding session.
You should observe one trombone lesson. BP's lesson schedule is posted here. You may Zoom in if you want but let me know the day before.
Graduate Students will be expected to develop their projects and reports, with regard to length and scope, to a level appropriate for pre-DMA/PhD studies and in particular, potential discussions in their upcoming oral examinations.
Grading and absence policy: Because of the seminar nature of this relatively small and project-based class, and the limited meetings with each professor, absences will generally not be excused. Exceptions would include documented illnesses or pre-approved absences for unique calendar conflicts such as professional or grad school auditions.
Twenty percent (20%) of the final grade will be determined by each professor (20% X 4) with the comprehensive notebook determining the final 20% of the semester grade.
The purpose of this course is to equip students with a working knowledge of the literature and pedagogical techniques and sources for all of the brass instruments. The course is well suited and required for all advanced performance majors seeking a career in full time professional performance or teaching at the collegiate level. The semester will be divided into four units presented by the four resident brass faculty.
Each professor will present the history and development of their instrument(s), demonstrating how the literature from each period reflects composers’ working knowledge of these instruments in their time and the performance capabilities of those performing their works. Discussions regarding historical and contemporary concepts and performance techniques based upon listening assignments, will be included in each of the four units.
Course schedule:
Wednesday Feb 15 - Intro and SFT
Monday Feb 20 - trombone history presentations in class
Wednesday Feb 22 - BP's Ped Demo
Monday Feb 27 - BP's audition skills, mental toughness training, pedagogy
Wednesday March 1 - BLP Rep presentations round 1
Monday March 13 - BLP Rep presentations round 2 and Orchestral Listening Lab preview
Wednesday March 15 - Orchestral Listening Lab presentations
Other specific areas of study, often presented through weekly student projects and listening assignments, will include:
- solo and like-instrument literature
- etudes and methods
- warm-up and practice routines
- orchestral, wind band, and chamber repertory
- survey of pedagogical resources for the teaching studio
- discussion of teaching approaches
- graded literature and curriculum development for the teaching studio
- international “schools” of playing & survey of “name” performers
- standard excerpts for professional auditions
- preparing for auditions, stage presence, stage fright
- developments in style through the recorded audio history of brass soloists/ensembles
- survey of contemporary websites pertinent to the brass world
Lesson Observations: significant portion of this class will include the observation of several applied lessons within each of the brass area studios. A brass_area_lesson_observa.doc Lesson Observation Form, to be completed for each lesson, should be included in the comprehensive notebook. Pedagogical techniques observed in these sessions will be presented/discussed in the weekly meeting and the brass studio classes. Lesson Observations should be completed and turned in during the same time as the corresponding session.
You should observe one trombone lesson. BP's lesson schedule is posted here. You may Zoom in if you want but let me know the day before.
Graduate Students will be expected to develop their projects and reports, with regard to length and scope, to a level appropriate for pre-DMA/PhD studies and in particular, potential discussions in their upcoming oral examinations.
Grading and absence policy: Because of the seminar nature of this relatively small and project-based class, and the limited meetings with each professor, absences will generally not be excused. Exceptions would include documented illnesses or pre-approved absences for unique calendar conflicts such as professional or grad school auditions.
Twenty percent (20%) of the final grade will be determined by each professor (20% X 4) with the comprehensive notebook determining the final 20% of the semester grade.
Week one materials:
See "Signing a Masterpiece" and the "David Cook masterclass in Canvas"
BP Teaching Tools, Articles and links - see "Process Concepts"
See "Signing a Masterpiece" and the "David Cook masterclass in Canvas"
BP Teaching Tools, Articles and links - see "Process Concepts"
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