Music Education at CCM
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Greetings from
the Division Head, Dr. Liz Wing
The Division of Music Education at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music offers formal programs of study leading to Bachelor
of Music in Music Education, Master of Music in Music Education, and Doctor
of Music Education degrees. Drawing upon widely varied institutional and community
resources, these programs integrate the high quality of music training and
experience available in a conservatory environment with a strong program of
pedagogical preparation. Graduates of these programs enjoy a 100%
placement rate, most often as school music teachers, community
arts personnel, church musicians, faculty members at colleges and universities,
and students in advanced programs of study.
Please contact me at wingl@uc.edu or
any of our faculty or staff if you have questions regarding our program.
The Music Education Program
The music education program at CCM serves approximately 75 students
in residence each year in our undergraduate, and graduate programs.
Drawing upon widely varied institutional and community resources, Bachelor's,
Master's, and Doctoral degrees are offered which:
- integrate the high quality of music training and experience available
in a conservatory environment with a strong program of liberal education
and professional-pedagogical preparation,
- draw upon the diversity of music teaching settings within the Cincinnati
community (i.e., urban and suburban, school-based and community-based),
and
- are tailored to individual needs and interests through double degree
options and, at the graduate level, through specialization studies in areas
such as arts administration, choral, orchestral and wind conducting, dance,
music theater, early childhood education, educational administration, jazz
studies, Orff-Schulwerk, performance, instrumental music
education, and urban music education.
Music Education graduates and faculty have a major impact on the musical life
of the city, the region and the nation through teaching in schools, colleges
and universities, conducting and performing as principal chairs in major symphony
orchestras, singing in lead roles in opera houses throughout the world, and
providing leadership through membership and elected positions with professional
music and education organizations.
The Music Education Facilities
The Music Education Division is located on the 5th floor
of Mary Emery Hall: “The Penthouse” of CCM. Division Resources for students
include a full research library and computer lab. The library contains
band and orchestra method books and scores, basal series, choral scores,
and general reference works. The computer lab is equipped with six G-5
Macintosh computers,
each with a Yamaha PSR-640 keyboard. Software includes Microsoft Office,
Safari, Finale, Sibelius, Music Ace, Essentials of Music Theory, Pyware 3D Java
and other titles. There is also
audio-visual equipment available for reviewing, and/or recording lessons
and music.
The Division History
Music Education programs at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music grew out of the rich musical and educational traditions of the "Queen
City of the West." While formal programs of music teacher preparation
were not initiated until the early 1920s, music instruction in the Cincinnati
Public Schools was introduced 60 years earlier. This instruction represented
a pioneering effort in a number of ways.
- Charles Aiken was the first paid music teacher in the public schools.
(1843)
- In Cincinnati's first public high school, students had required music
instruction for two periods per week for all four years. (1847)
- Students in grades 2-6 were released from "academic" subjects to receive
instruction in the first "Class Piano" instruction program in the United
States.
- Innovative liaisons were established between school and professional
music organizations, such as the Cincinnati May Festival and the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra.
- Early programs of music teacher preparation were undertaken by both the
College of Music and the Conservatory of Music in affiliation with the
University of Cincinnati. These programs were designed according to the
standards of conservatory training and a university education, and shaped
by the cultural and educational context of Cincinnati.
- The College and the Conservatory merged in 1955 and officially became
a unit of the University in 1962.
College-Conservatory of Music
Division of Music Education
Mary Emery Hall | P.O. Box 210003 | Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
Phone:
513-556-6017
Fax: 513-556-0202
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