MUS 634 Choral Seminar
Repeatable for credit, combined study of choral literature (score study and analysis), performance practice, topics of choral development (e.g. diction, intonation, voice classification, correction of vocal faults in group settings, etc.). This course will also cultivate choral leadership skill development, including score reading, figured bass reading, and solfeggio on a weekly basis. Running every fall and spring semester, this course provides for a continuing discussion of choral literature and interpretation, as well as a more holistic treatment of the vast body of choral music topics and materials that must be integrated in the professional choral musician. Organists should ordinarily take the "Cycle A" semester, which includes discussions of early choral music and tuning and temperament.