Summer 2012 Graduate Courses and Workshops
MUS 560-61, INSTRUMENT REPAIR WORKSHOP
Mr. Rick Rutledge
Reichard Hall 104
June 18-21, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
This workshop offers a practical approach to the emergency and minor instrument repair needs for the school band and orchestra director. A “hands-on” learning experience will be provided, with expert instruction and constant supervision. While the course emphasizes woodwind instruments, brass and percussion will also be covered. Enrollment limit: 12. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 503–81, TEACHING WORLD MUSIC
Dr. Heather MacLachlan
Web-based course
June 25-29, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm (EDT)
Methods and techniques for teaching music from representative cultures around the world, and their role and function in society. Student must be available to correspond via Internet during specified time. Distance learning. Enrollment limit: 15. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 501-81, SEMINAR IN MUSICOLOGY
Dr. Samuel Dorf
Music and Theatre 112
July 16-20, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Students will become familiar with selected general aspects of Western music: music notation, editions and performance, social contexts and meanings of musical works. This course explores the range of approaches and research methods in musicology, aiming for a comprehensive understanding and a critical knowledge of the sources and literature of music and musicology, and the rudiments of research and writing techniques. Enrollment limit: 15. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 505-Z1, TEACHING MUSIC WITH TECHNOLOGY I
Dr. Toby Rush
Web-based course
June 25-July 20
Provides an introduction to 1) computer music notation, 2) producing music with virtual instruments, and 3) developing web-based multimedia presentations and music tutorials. Student must have access to a computer with Internet. Distance learning. Enrollment limit: 15. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 560-81, DANCE HISTORY
Dr. Eric Street
Web-based course
June 25 – August 4
Students actively explore at their own pace the history, literature, composers, choreographers and styles of dance through online video, enriched by online reading, blogging, and discussion. Course includes a sampling of international dance, with particular focus on Western classical dance of the Romantic and Contemporary periods. Includes classics such as Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Romeo & Juliet, and Cinderella. Distance learning. Enrollment limit: 15. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 560-81, MUSICAL THEATRE HISTORY
Dr. Eric Street
Web-based course
June 25 – August 4
Students actively explore at their own pace the history, literature, composers, and styles of musical theater through online video, enriched by online reading, blogging, and discussion. Course material extends from the earliest roots of Musical Theatre through operetta, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rogers & Hammerstein to more contemporary composers such as Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Distance learning. Enrollment limit: 15. (2 sem. hrs.)
MUS 599-Z1, Z2, Z3, GRADUATE PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Instructor and location to be determined.
May 14 – August 3
Private lessons or approved ensemble participation. Contact Dr. Hartley for details. Lesson fee. (1-2 sem. hrs.)
How to Register
To register: Visit Flyers First, the Office of the Registrar (www) >>
For registration questions: 937- 229-4131 or 1-800-259-8864
Enrollment deadline: June 1, 2012
Tuition: $520 per semester hour
For more information about the program:
Dr. Linda A. Hartley
Music Education Program Director
937-229-3232
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Our Summer 2012 Faculty
Dr. Samuel N. Dorf will begin as an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Dayton this Fall. He received his PhD in musicology from Northwestern University. His published articles deal with the performance and reinvention of ancient Greek music and dance in fin-de-siècle Paris, queer music reception, and film music. He is currently guest-editing a special issue of the journal Opera Quarterly on performances of antiquity. Dr. Dorf has won awards, grants and fellowships from Northwestern University, Harvard University, the Society of Dance History Scholars, and the American Musicological Society.
Dr. Heather MacLachlan is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Dayton. She received her PhD at Cornell University and has published articles on topics such as American popular music and music theory pedagogy. Her main research focus is music-making among Burmese populations. Her book, Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors, was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2011. At the University of Dayton Dr. MacLachlan teaches world music classes, leads the gamelan ensemble. Prior to beginning her higher education career, Dr. MacLachlan taught public school in her home country of Canada.
An active pedagogue and technologist, Dr. Toby Rush currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Technology at the University of Dayton. He received his Doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Rush's research interests include applications of educational technology and new media for music studies, interface design, and music theory and aural skills pedagogy. His pedagogical materials and computer software have garnered worldwide acclaim. He is a member of NAfME, and maintains an active role in the local music education community.
Rick Rutledge studied electronics repair with the National Radio Institute and worked with the master craftsman from the G. Leblanc company to learn wind instrument repair. He then worked at Kinder Music in Springfield, Ohio in brass, woodwind, string, and electronic repair. Rick also worked for Ohio Music and Coyle Music in Columbus prior to his hiring at Hauer Music in Dayton. He has been repairing instruments at Hauer Music since 1990. Mr. Rutledge has taught Instrument Repair Workshops at UD since 1992.
Dr. Eric Street is Professor of Music at UD, with a doctorate from Indiana University and additional study in Vienna and Rome. As a pianist he has performed in over thirty countries on six continents. (He's still missing Antarctica.) He reviews opera for the Dayton City Paper and loves music of all sorts. Recently he toured as pianist with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Street’s articles appear in over seventy periodicals, including Clavier, American Music Educator, Keyboard Quarterly, and Opera Journal. As a tour leader and interpreter he has taken student and adult groups to Vienna, Athens, Florence, Sicily, Dublin, Paris, and London.