2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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MUSC 166 Private Instruction: Orchestral Strings (1 credit)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
An individual instruction course advancing all levels of student music performance in orchestral strings. Course is repeatable for additional credit up to 3 times in the degree.

Course Content
a.) musical literacy (e.g.pitch, rhythm, tempo, articulation, dynamics, phrasing)
b.) conventions of orchestral strings playing technique  (e.g. balance, intonation precision, pitch, tone production, rhythm, tempo, articulation, dynamics, phrasing)
c.) musicality (e.g. timbre, stylistic expression)

Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate, through performance, improvement in literacy, technique, and musicality. 

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Effective Communication
Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.

Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

Potential Methods
A. Juried Performance 
B. Instructor observation 
C. Instructor feedback 
D. Self-evaluation 
E. Peer review



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