MUSE - Music Ensemble

MUSE 160 Choir

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

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 161 String Ensemble

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 162 Wind Ensemble

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 163 Early Music Ensemble

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 164 Jazz Ensemble

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 260 Chamber Singers

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 261 Piano Ensemble I

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 262 Piano Ensemble II

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

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters

MUSE 263 Small Ensemble

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.

Credits

0.5

Offered

Both Semesters