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Audition Dates for Prospective Music Majors

http://www.music.msu.edu/admissions/application.php

Special Events

New Directions in Music Education Conferences  
Michigan State University hosts a prestigious series of international conferences, titled "New Directions in Music Education,” designed to bring together the leading teachers, clinicians, researchers, and musicians in the world to focus on emerging trends in music education. Previous conferences have been devoted to Early Childhood Music Education (1997) and Teaching Composition and Improvisation (2000), which attracted 220 participants from four continents. In November 2003, the New Directions conference topic was Innovations in Instrumental Music Education. In November 2005, the New Directions in Music Education conference on Teaching Composition and Improvisation was hosted by MSU. The conferences provide MSU music education students a unique opportunity to learn from some of the leading experts in the world.

Saturday Seminars 
The College of Music also offers frequent Saturday morning workshops and clinics to area teachers and MSU students. The workshops, called "Saturday Seminars," feature nationally recognized educators on topics such as: music technology, assessment, motivating students, choral conducting, teaching chamber music, and curriculum development. In addition to the Saturday Seminars, MSU music education faculty members frequently provide in-service education for Michigan music teachers.

This year the MSU College of Music hosted two seminars:

October 7, 2006 - Addressing Cultural Diversity in Our Classrooms: What We
                         Teach or Who We Teach?

January 13, 2007 - Gain without Pain: Preventing Musical Injuries in the
                          Classroom and Rehearsal.

Music Education Resource Center
The Resource Center is designed as a place where students can:

• Examine and borrow teaching materials, such as music textbooks, curriculum
  guides from across the country, instrumental lesson books, and music for
  student ensembles

• Use educational audio-visual equipment for such things as observing
  videotapes of their teaching, observing videotapes of master teachers,
  previewing recordings for teaching, making audio tapes and CDs for teaching listening lessons, and producing visual educational materials (e.g., overhead transparencies, posters)

• Meet with other students and faculty to work on group projects

• Use and borrow instruments for classroom music instruction, such as Orff xylophones, simple rhythm instruments, Omnichords