MMED 765 Smart Music & Accompaniment Software For Music Education

3 credits 45.0 hours
700 level graduate course

Learn how to use SmartMusic software with your students and explore ways to create custom accompaniments for use in the music classroom and rehearsal settings. The course will explore the incredible SmartMusic repertoire library, which includes 77 method books (band, string, and jazz), 4,933 concert titles, 105 choir titles, over 555 solo titles, and the new vocal sight-singing methods, choral warm-ups, instrumental sight-reading and hundreds of exercises. You will learn how to use SmartMusic assessment and how it can encourage your students to practice longer and more often. You will experience the steps and procedures for creating your own SmartMusic classes and assignments and how to track your students’ progress. You will also learn how to create your own custom SmartMusic accompaniments using Finale notation software. Exports from Finale to MusicXML format will be addressed for the New web based SmartMusic as well.

This course is not repeatable for credit.