Old Time Ensemble

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Participate in the old-time community through vocal and/or instrumental music and traditional dance (P)
• Learn and share old-time music through oral/aural tradition (OT)
• Recognize characteristic features of old-time music in recorded and live performances (CF)
• Describe and Distinguish between various subgenres within old-time (dance tunes, folk songs, ballads, sacred music) and characteristics of music related to old-time (bluegrass, Celtic, blues, jazz) (D&D)
• Analyze and Apply features of performance practice (bowing techniques, vocal styles, typical banjo and guitar techniques, variations, syncopation) (A&A)

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Listening Project	15%
Analysis Project	15%
Research Project	15%
Musicianship Project	15%
End of Semester Recital – Performance Mandatory	20%
Semester Dance – One Performance Mandatory	20%

Grading Scale:

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
59 and below	F

Attendance/Participation:

Regular class attendance is a responsibility and a privilege of university education. It is impossible to meet the curricular goals of this course without regular active participation during class.

One absence may be used without penalty; each additional absence will lower your final grade by one half-letter grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Students should have their own instrument to use in class. Some instruments are available for check out through the UNCG School of Music. Please contact the instructor with any questions.