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Mission

The Wind Symphony is a performance-oriented wind band devoted to the preparation of instrumentalists and conductors for professional careers in music performance and education. Additionally, it provides °®¶¹´«Ã½ students, staff, faculty, and community members with an avenue to continue their involvement in the performing arts. Participation in the Wind Symphony fulfills the following program and learning outcomes:

Department of Music Program Outcomes

  • PO #1: Students will exhibit effective technical and artistic skills in music performance of repertoire from a broad range of stylistic periods. 
  • PO #2: As appropriate to their degree track, students will learn and apply pedagogical methods, techniques and tools related to their area of expertise.
  • PO #6: Students will hone critical thinking skills by: a) consciously making informed interpretation choices; b) connecting theoretical and historical understanding to musical performance; and, c) developing a personal and discerning philosophy of music
  • PO #9: Students will apprentice in a spirit of artistic community. 

Student Learning Outcomes

  • SLO #1: Students will deepen their musicianship by striving for the highest attainable performance standard.
  • SLO #2: Students will develop their technical ability by working to meet the new technical demands of challenging repertoire.
  • SLO #3: Students will increase their awareness of wind band music through the programming of historically important and artistically distinctive repertoire.
  • SLO #4: Students will deepen their understanding of the link between theory and practice through rehearsals that engage students’ prior knowledge of music theory and analysis, ear training, and music history.
  • SLO #5: Students will advance their knowledge of teaching, rehearsal, and conducting techniques through the implementation and modeling of a variety of available methods.
  • SLO #6: Students will expand their artistic, intellectual, and spiritual horizons.