ADVANCED CONDUCTING SEMINAR

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Music, Music: Education, or Music: Performance graduate program Course Designation: Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Increase knowledge of choral repertory in each historical period and to gain insight into performance practices appropriate for each period. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop fundamental skills and vocabulary as a conductor - to develop clear, effective, communicative gestures in order to immediately express the music. Audience: Graduate 3. Improve communication of expression with economy of gesture and minimal verbal communication. Audience: Graduate 4. Improve their ability to listen, rehearse, and implement changes. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a body of source materials directly related to choral conducting and the teaching of choral music. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop practices that further the expansion of the choral canon. Audience: Graduate 7. Establish both critical and philosophical purposes for conducting- creating and furthering a mental-aural image of the score. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Increase knowledge of choral repertory in each historical period and to gain insight into performance practices appropriate for each period. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop fundamental skills and vocabulary as a conductor - to develop clear, effective, communicative gestures in order to immediately express the music. Audience: Graduate 3. Improve communication of expression with economy of gesture and minimal verbal communication. Audience: Graduate 4. Improve their ability to listen, rehearse, and implement changes. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop a body of source materials directly related to choral conducting and the teaching of choral music. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop practices that further the expansion of the choral canon. Audience: Graduate 7. Establish both critical and philosophical purposes for conducting- creating and furthering a mental-aural image of the score. Audience: Graduate