APST 221 - Sacred Music Skills

Next Offered: [2010 - 2011]
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 2 Hours
First semester of a one-year course having an emphasis on skills necessary to become a successful church/synagogue musician. Units include historical and modern church music history, the role of the organist in the modern synagogue, hymnology, liturgy and worship styles, creative hymn playing, chant, accompanying, sight-reading, transposition, basic skills in improvisation, conducting from the console, rehearsal techniques, basic sacred choral repertoire, and church music administration.
Instructor: J. Mitchener
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to organ majors.
Offered in alternate years.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 40