Barbara Wager Syllabus - Woodwind Methods (Spring 2009) Southwick 206 Barbara.Wager@uvm.edu 802-860-1514 (home, not between 3:00-6:00, or after 9:00 please)

Course Materials

1. Teaching Woodwinds William Dietz, General Editor. ISBN 0028645693 2. Standard of Excellence Enhanced Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce

Pearson Book 1- Flute (this version comes with IPAS software, tuner and metronome) ISBN 084975948X $9.95

3. Accent on Achievement Book 1 for Eb Alto Saxophone by John O’Reilly and Mark Williams (Alfred Publishing) ISBN 9780739005088 $7.95

4. Rubank Elementary Method (Clarinet) by Nilo W. Hovey. (Published by Hal Leonard-HL.4470000) ISBN 1423444787 $5.95

The following may be available at Ellis Music or online at somewhere like Woodwind and BrassWind (www.wwbw.com)

5. Clarinet Care Kit

Yours should include: a 2 slot reed guard, cork grease, lint brush & weighted swab

6. Alto Sax Care Kit Yours should include: a 2 slot reed guard, key oil, neck cleaner, chamois swab, and mouthpiece brush (The cork grease, lint brush, key oil and mouthpiece brush may be used for both instruments. Make sure you have the different size reed guards and the respective swabs)

7. Flute Care Kit All-cotton handkerchief with finished edges – try the men’s section of a department store. The finished edges are important because you don’t want loose threads catching in the keyworks.

Each student is responsible for purchasing clarinet and saxophone reeds. Please, no higher number than 2.5 unless you are a veteran single reed player. Students are not expected to purchase reeds for the double reed instruments. You will need to get at least three reeds each for alto saxophone and clarinet. Van Doren 2.5 would be great for clarinet and Van Doren Javas (2.5) for alto saxophone. If it's okay with everyone, I will order a box of each, and have the students pay me directly – It will be much less expensive than trying to buy them individually.

Barbara Wager Woodwind Methods (Spring 2009) Southwick 206 Barbara.Wager@uvm.edu 802-860-1514 (home, not between 3:00-6:00, or after 9:00 please)

Course Information

Course Description This course is designed to provide music education majors with a basic background concerning the teaching and playing of woodwind instruments in schools. Emphasis is placed on various aspects of tone production, breath support, fingerings, embouchure, hand position, finger position, reeds, intonation and pedagogical information on each instrument. In addition, the selection and care of instrument and basic repertoire for each instrument is studied. Course Objective Acquire knowledge of and functional performance ability on three of the woodwind instruments sufficient to teach beginning students effectively in groups. This includes the ability to teach the assembly/disassembly of each instrument, cleaning and care of each instrument, breathing, embouchure, breath support, fingerings, posture, tuning, tone production and beginner qualifications. Students will learn to teach by modeling each of these aspects, and will learn to diagnose specific problems Examine various methods, and build a resource file for methods, articles, journals, etc. pertaining to the woodwinds.

Barbara Wager Barbara Wager Woodwind Methods (Spring 2009) Southwick 206 Barbara.Wager@uvm.edu 802-860-1514 (home, not between 3:00-6:00, or after 9:00 please)

Playing Exams There will be 3 playing exams in which the student will demonstrate facility on the instrument. Students will demonstrate fingering facility by playing one octave major scales up to 3 sharps and 4 flats. (Concert Keys of Bb, Eb, F & Ab) Tests will also include sight-reading and pedagogical questions related to the applicable instrument.

Notebook All students enrolled in this course are required to develop a notebook. In the notebook you will keep handouts, articles, exercises, assignments, tests, etc. that will serve as useful resources to you in your teaching. Make it neat and thorough: you will be glad you did in a few years!! Your notebook should be a three ring binder (loose leaf). Later on, you will want to add dividers. You should plan to get one with relatively large rings (2-3 inches), so that you can continue to add elements to it for the rest of your career. The notebook will be evaluated for a grade only once: at the end of the semester.

Included in the Notebook:

Observation Form and Reflection UVM requires 6 hours of observation (3 at the elementary K-6 level, and 3 at the secondary 7-12 level) during each of the Methods courses. You can either observe woodwind lessons, or observe woodwinds in the context of band or orchestra rehearsals. These forms are to be completed and turned in. They will be placed in your student file by Patricia Riley Patricia.Riley@uvm.edu at the end of the course.

Method Book Evaluation

Chose one woodwind instrument and complete evaluation forms for three different publishers.

Teaching Assignment

One teaching assignment will be required of each student. This entails teaching a one-half hour lesson to a NON-WOODWIND student. A brief paper detailing the teaching experience will be expected after the teaching session. In the paper you should discuss what happened in the lesson (i.e., How did the student grasp concepts? What was difficult for the student to achieve? What was difficult to teach? What techniques did you use to teach? Were the results what you expected?) Papers must be typed, double spaced and between 3-5 paragraphs.

Barbara Wager Woodwind Methods (Spring 2009) Southwick 206 Barbara.Wager@uvm.edu 802-860-1514 (home, not between 3:00-6:00, or after 9:00 please)

GRADING Final grades will be determined as follows:

Attendance & Daily Participation, totaling 20%

Each class day, students will receive a grade based on class activities. At the end of the semester, these daily grades will be averaged together to constitute 20% of the final grade. If you are going to miss class, please notify me!!

Three Clarinet playing quizzes, totaling 10%

Clarinet Jury 1 20%

Clarinet Jury 2 50%

Clarinet Scales 30% Three Saxophone playing quizzes, totaling 10%

Saxophone Jury 1 20%

Saxophone Jury 2 50%

Saxophone Scales 30% Three Flute playing quizzes, totaling 10%

Flute Jury 1 20%

Flute Jury 2 50%

Flute Scales 30%

Written tests totaling 20%

Notebook, totaling 30%

Method Book Evaluations (3)

Observation Form and Reflection-6 hrs

Teaching Assignment

Consumer Report

Handouts, articles, exercises, assignments, tests, etc. that will serve as useful resources to you in your teaching.

Total = 100%