MUSE - Music Ensemble

Participation in Hood’s choir, which performs both choral masterworks and lighter repertoire. Grade is based on attendance, participation and performance.

Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Participation in Hood’s String Ensemble, which performs music by the masters for smaller string ensemble. There are occasional joint performances with the wind ensemble. Grade is based on attendance, participation and performance. Selection is based on audition.

Prerequisite: Permission of the department Participation in Hood’s Wind Ensemble, which performs music by the masters for winds and brass. There are occasional joint performances with the string ensemble. Grade is based on attendance, participation and performance. Selection is based on audition.

Prerequisite: Participation must be approved by the director. Participation in Hood's Early Music Ensemble, which performs works from the earliest eras of Western music- the late Renaissance through early Baroque. Grade is based on attendance, participation and performance.

Prerequisite: Selection is based on audition. Participation in Hood's Jazz Ensemble, which enables students to discover and perform music from America's great art form—jazz.

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Participation in Hood's Gospel Ensemble, which performs both traditional spirituals and contemporary Gospel repertoire. Grade is based on attendance, participation, and performance.

Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Participation in Hood’s Chamber Singers, which performs smaller-scale choral masterworks each semester. Selection is based on audition, and grade is based on attendance, participation and performance. Membership in Chamber Singers requires concurrent participation in Choir.

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. A study of the literature and performance of repertoire for piano ensemble. Topics include music for one piano, four-hands, and two pianos.

Prerequisites: MUSE 261 A study of the literature and performance of repertoire for piano ensemble. Topics include music with voices and other instruments.

Prerequisites: Permission of the department. An opportunity for students to form string quartets, string trios, woodwind quintets and other groups as deemed appropriate by the department, and to rehearse and perform the literature for those groups under the direction of a faculty coach.