APST 221 - Sacred Music Skills

Next Offered: [2014-2015] Alternate Years
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 2 Hours
Attribute: CNDP
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.
Enrollment Limit: 40
Instructor: Staff Con
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to organ majors.