Summer Music Programs 2008
Music is a language capable of uniting diverse cultures and experiences. Boston University music courses incorporate all aspects of the art form—from historical and cultural to communicative, educational, and therapeutic. Gain valuable tools for teaching music to others in one of our many music education courses. Explore Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training, featuring renowned faculty and focusing on Orff Schulwerk philosophy, pedagogy, techniques, and theory. Or find yourself transported by the rhythms of West Africa or caught up in the vibrant and influential evolution of jazz and American traditional music. This summer, discover the language of music. MusicCollege of Arts and SciencesAndrew ShentonUtterbackanalia features BU Professor Shenton playing works by jazz composer Joe Utterback on a very large Mander organ at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York. Works are based on English organ voluntaries, brief chorale preludes, and Gospel jazz. Deep River Nativity Song on Greensleeves CAS MU 225 Jazz Music
College of Fine ArtsCFA Music majors interested in taking summer courses to meet their degree requirements should seek advance approval from the School of Music. Applied MusicStudents should make personal arrangements with the School of Music for private lessons.
Music EducationCFA MU 391/MU 691 Music for Special Learners CFA MU 416/MU 616 Teaching and Learning of Traditional American Music CFA MU 432/MU 632 Rhythms of the World: West Africa CFA MU 497/MU 682 Advanced Instrumental Conducting CFA MU 579 Instructional Software, Internet and Digital Media for Music Educators CFA MU 437/MU 637 Digital Media in the Music Classroom CFA MU 583 Musical Directing for Middle School and High School Music Teachers MusicologyCFA MU 246 Popular Music: The Rolling Stones CFA MU 353 Popular Music and Culture: The Punk/Post-Punk Rebellion CFA MU 639 Music of Mozart Music TheoryCFA MU 111 Elements of Music Theory I CFA MU 601 Analytical Techniques I Orff SchulwerkCarl Orff and Gunild Keetman developed a new approach to music and movement education based on the unity of music, movement, and speech. Orff Schulwerk, as it is known, encourages musical creativity based upon solid pedagogical principles and is structured on a sequential development of knowledge and skills. In Orff Schulwerk, improvisation and composition are important fundamentals. Children explore sound using spoken words, melodies, and accompaniments. Movement and dance are integral to the whole process. Orff Schulwerk is a child-centered approach to music education that makes use of children’s natural affinities for moving, singing, and improvised play. Orff Schulwerk builds musical concepts and skills through speech, poetry, song, games, movement, and use of the Orff instrumentarium. The emphasis is on students as improvisers and performers in this exciting approach to teaching and learning music.
Orff Schulwerk courses are open to music educators, music education students, and to other music students by consent of instructor. On-campus housing is available for an additional charge. CFA MU 433/MU 633 Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Level I CFA MU 446/MU 646 Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Level II |
Music Education
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David Martins |
David Martins is an adjunct professor of music at Boston University, and serves as the director of wind ensembles for Boston University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble. Music Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Martins is a member of the clarinet sections of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Boston Classical Orchestras, and performs regularly and has toured internationally as both a soloist and ensemble member. His orchestral and chamber recordings can be heard on numerous labels, including CRI, Koch, and Titanic. |
Floyd Richmond |
Dr. Richmond has over twenty-five years of experience as a teacher at the college, secondary, and elementary levels. He holds his doctorate in Music Education from Ball State University, Indiana. A member of the Music Educators National Conference, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the Technology Institute for Music Educators, and the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, among others, Richmond offers expertise in the use of technology in the music classroom. He has been a presenter at over forty-five workshops and demonstrations, and has over thirty-five publications to his name.
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Rene Boyer |
Dr. Boyer is Professor of Music Education at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, and director of the University’s Orff-Schulwerk Certification Program. She holds a doctorate in Music Education from Washington University, and has three levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification. From 1984 through 2004, Boyer was coordinator of the Greater Cincinnati Orff-Schulwerk Program. Along with over thirty-five years of teaching experience at the university, secondary, and elementary levels, Boyer has presented hundreds of workshops and demonstrations in the United States and abroad. She is author of numerous books and publications on African American music and music education, and is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2007 National Award from the National Association for the Study and Performance of African American Music. Boyer is currently general music chair of the Ohio Music Education Association, and a member of the American Orff Schulwerk Association. |
| Rossana M. Cota |
Rossana Cota is a music specialist in Las Vegas and a clinician for school choirs. She received her Orff and master certification from Tucson and Memphis. She conducts workshops throughout the U.S. and has made presentations at the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA) National Conferences. She is a contributor to the Clark County Music Curriculum, used in Las Vegas and throughout the nation. Cota specializes in multicultural music, integrating Spanish through song and dance. Currently, she teaches at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. |
| Barbara Watson |
Barbara Watson holds a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Ohio University, as well as two master's degrees from the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. She has completed all levels of Orff Schulwerk Training and has done extensive coursework in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Watson attended the Orff Institute and has led Orff chapter clinics and workshops in Virginia, Atlanta, and Cleveland. She is a national clinician for the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA), and has been a movement specialist for the University of Cincinnati Summer Program since 1992. |
| Dr. Baruch J. Whitehead |
Dr. Whitehead is assistant professor of music education at Ithaca College. An elementary music specialist, he directs the Ithaca community's multicultural chorus, Voices, and is founder of the GIAC African Dance and Drumming ensemble. Dr. Whitehead studied at the Orff Institute in Austria, and served as assistant principal oboist for the Huntington Symphony Orchestra. He has been a featured presenter for both the Texas and West Virginia Orff Schulwerk Associations and has worked as a clinician, conductor, and adjudicator throughout the nation |
| Pam Yanco |
Pam Yanco holds a bachelor's degree in Music History from Wells College. She received her teacher's certification in Orff Schulwerk from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and has taught recorder for the Orff Schulwerk training courses there. Yanco has presented at numerous conferences and currently teaches in the Master of Music in Music Education program at The Boston Conservatory. She is the co-founder of "Eine Kleine Konsort," a recorder ensemble that works with beginning recorder players. |
Based on new methodologies for teaching world music through the direct experience of performing the music. Improvisational elements are fundamental. Educational objectives of this course include understanding the music through listening, performing and creating; learning to teach the music in the general music classroom through movement, improvisation, ensemble performance, and percussion; developing an awareness of available resources. 2 cr.
Transform teaching by learning how the use of instructional software, the Internet, and digital media in K-12 education can excite and empower music students. This entry level course provides hands-on exploration of a variety of instructional programs, safe websites for students to enhance their musical learning, use of the Internet as a tool for communicating news about programs within the community, and skill development in how to record/edit sound, create MP3s and burn CDs. Participants will create an instructional multimedia project using the skills learned in the course and explore ways to incorporate these tools into their curriculum that will help to address both National Music Standards and State Curriculum Frameworks. The software and skills learned in the course are compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms and course content is applicable to all grade levels. (Note: This course fulfills 1/2 of TI:ME level 1 certification.) 2 cr. 
This multi-media course provides an in-depth examination of the Rolling Stones
and their role within the evolving history of popular culture, with the major
emphasis placed on understanding their musical styles. Along the way, the relationship
between the group and the major trends in rock music will be highlighted, since
a history of the Stones is, in many ways, a history of rock music in general.
This course is intended for the general university student and neither assumes
nor requires previous training in music. 4 cr. 
Examines representative
works of artists from 1975 to 1985, including Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, Blondie,
Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Police, U2, Jam, and R.E.M., with a focus
on trying to think like artists and producers in order to understand their
aesthetic code, and to gain basic music-analytical skills. The course constructs
a workable historical narrative of an extremely diverse, and poorly understood,
musical culture where new genera and styles developed, co-existed, and merged
with older, revived styles and artists. 4 cr.
Our Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Levels I and II offer intensive and exciting exposure to Orff Schulwerk philosophy, pedagogy, techniques and theory, orchestration, and improvisation. Sessions focus on several areas: ensemble playing, lessons and pedagogy, recorder techniques, dance and movement, improvisation, and special topics. Join world-renowned visiting instructors in a curriculum that follows the guidelines established by the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA). Gain a teaching methodology with innumerable benefits that will enrich your career and your students’ relationship with music. Bring a powerful and inspirational methodology of movement, singing, improvisation, and instrumentation into your classroom—and get on the path to national certification. 
Prereq: Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Level I. Continuation of the Orff Schulwerk approach including activities in song, percussion, movement, and recorder. This course constitutes the second level of national certification as an Orff Schulwerk teacher. It is open to music education students, and to other music students by approval.