ORCHESTRA



CSB/SJU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MUSC 233

1/0 Credit

Fall Semester 2020

A-135 Recital Hall

T/W/TH, 6:30-7:45

+ Dress Rehearsals and Concerts

Instructor: J. David Arnott, darnott@csbsju.edu, (320) 493-1862

Office: BAC D-045 and A-119

Phone: 5717

Office Hours: TBA Posted on office door

Course Content

This course is a performance-based ensemble. Participation is by audition.

Requirements and Grading

This course is offered for an A-F grade for 1 credit or on an S/U basis for 0 credit. The course grade will be determined as follows: As this is an experience-based course, attendance is crucial and expected. Attendance will be taken and absences will result in a lowering of the course grade at my discretion. Please let me know if you are ill. If you miss a dress rehearsal or a concert you will fail the class. The schedule for the entire semester will be available at the start of each semester. Please notify me of all conflicts at that time! Lab conflicts are a fact of life at CSB/SJU. If you have one cycle-day-lab-conflict with orchestra, you may still take the class for credit (but will sit in the back). If you have two cycle day labs, you may not participate in orchestra. Do not schedule studio lessons during orchestra rehearsals. All students with class conflicts are required to attend at least 2 of the 3 weekly rehearsals.

Music Performance Award Recipients:

Students receiving music awards are required to participate in an ensemble. Successful participation (including attendance) is necessary for continuance of your music award. String-playing music scholarship recipients must make every effort to avoid orchestra conflicts as this is the only ensemble that fulfills the scholarship compliance requirement.

Seating/Auditions

Auditions take place in the fall prior to the first rehearsal (everybody plays an audition). Seating is at the discretion of the instructor and seating assignments will generally differ from concert to concert (rotation). Assignments will generally be made prior to the first rehearsal of new material.

Auditions 2020 Orchestra audition requirements may be found here:

*Violins: To be considered for the first violin section, you must be comfortable and capable through 7th position (high A on the E string). I will be happy to evaluate/help anyone who would like consideration for the first violin rotation.

*Seating preference will be given to students without lab conflicts. Section principals may miss only one rehearsal before being reassigned.

Familiarity with Repertoire

YouTube videos and Naxos recordings are available for all repertoire. You are expected to be quite familiar with these recordings very quickly!

Rehearsals/Attendance

Rehearsals should be viewed the same as class periods and attendance is not optional. Section leaders will take attendance every rehearsal. Tuning begins promptly at 1:05. Please be ready to play (3 “lates” = 1 absence). Generally, one or two evening or Saturday morning dress rehearsals will be held for each concert. If you have a night-class conflict, then you will be excused from that rehearsal, otherwise consider it mandatory. Notify me of any conflicts with night classes at the beginning of the semester! A missed concert is an automatic fail.

Class conflicts exist however you must be able to attend two rehearsals each week to be in orchestra.

This is an ensemble (French for “together”) but it is also a class. Students are expected to prepare their parts outside of rehearsal (practice) so that we may assemble the parts in rehearsal rather than learn them in rehearsal.

Concert Dress

Men: black: shoes, socks, pants, jacket, bow tie, white shirt

Women: all black

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Common Curriculum

Orchestra fulfills one credit of FA each semester. As such, it is designed to meet certain learning goals and will require you to do outside work occasionally:

MUSIC DEPARTMENT GOAL 2

Student ensembles will satisfactorily perform music at levels appropriate to the

ensemble’s course descriptions.

Objective 2.1

Ensemble performances will demonstrate understanding of expressive and historical aspects of the repertoire, and correct execution of musical aspects such as pitch, phrasing, dynamics and tempo.

Fine Arts Common Curriculum learning goals.

The Fine Arts requirement helps students deepen their understanding of an area of the arts, and develop the ability to apply analytic skills to aesthetic judgment.

Students will:

·    Demonstrate a basic understanding of the historical, theoretical or applied aspect of one of the fine arts

·    Identify and describe a range of contrasting styles within one of the fine arts 

·    Experience the creative process through performance/artistic production and or through observation of demonstrations, workshops, live performances, etc

·    Apply analytical skills in exercising artistic discrimination and aesthetic judgment 

·    Describe how the arts reflect and influence the individual and society

Concert No. 1, October 18, 1:00

Concert No. 2 December 13, 2:00

A Note on Title IX

Title IX makes it clear that violence, harassment, and discrimination based on sex and gender are Civil Rights offenses subject to the same kinds of accountability and the same kinds of support applied to offenses against other protected categories such as race, national origin, etc. If you or someone you know has been harassed or assaulted, you can find the appropriate resources, both on and off campus, at . As a faculty member, I am required by our institutions to report incidents of sexual misconduct and thus cannot guarantee confidentiality. I must provide the Dean of Students with relevant details such as the names of those involved in the incident, if I know them. Please know that you can seek confidential resources at CSB/SJU Counseling (CSB 320-363-5605 SJU 320-363-3236) and CSB Health Services 320-363-5605 (CSB students only) or the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center (1-800-237-5090). If you want to make a formal report, you can contact the Dean of Students (CSB 320-363-5601 SJU 320-363-3512), CSB Security 320-363- 5000 or SJU Life Safety 320-363-2144. You can also make a police report to the St. Joseph Police Department 320-363-8250 or the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department 320-251-4240.

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