faculty
Ronald Sherwin, PhD
Professor / Chairperson
Music
Department Chair, Choral Music EducationUniversity Chorus, Social Justice ChoirEducation
2004 | The University of Maine | PhD |
2000 | The University of Maine | MM |
1995 | Castleton State University | BA |
Teaching
- Music Education
- Assessment
- Conducting
- Music History/Performance Practice
Programs
Programs
Courses
Open to students, staff, and faculty. Sight-reading not required but minimal experience in group singing desirable.
Open to students, staff, and faculty. Sight-reading not required but minimal experience in group singing desirable.
Intercollegiate and community choral ensemble for students interested in participating in a high-quality vocal ensemble while also engaging in tangible activities positively affecting the community. The ensemble will study, rehearse, and perform music addressing a wide variety of social justice issues as well as highlighting music written or arranged by composers from historically excluded or underrepresented groups.
Study of philosophies, skills, and practices associated with active listening. Students will develop the skills necessary for intelligent discrimination of the variety of music available in live and recorded formats. In addition, they will study the approaches to musical engagements and their philosophical underpinnings. Emphasis is placed on the potential of listening for understanding of self and world.
Open to students, staff, and faculty. Sight-reading not required but minimal experience in group singing desirable.
Open to students, staff, and faculty. Sight-reading not required but minimal experience in group singing desirable.
Intercollegiate and community choral ensemble for students interested in participating in a high-quality vocal ensemble while also engaging in tangible activities positively affecting the community. The ensemble will study, rehearse, and perform music addressing a wide variety of social justice issues as well as highlighting music written or arranged by composers from historically excluded or underrepresented groups.
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Presents a basic music vocabulary and develops intelligent discrimination in the listener through study and analysis of outstanding works from Gregorian Chant to the present, including music of diverse cultures. Emphasis is also placed on the relationship of the historical development of music to parallel movements in art, drama, philosophical thought, etc.
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Research
Research interests
- Assessment
- Civic Engagement
Select publications
See curriculum vitae for more publications
- Ronald Sherwin & Sarah McQuarrie (2017).
Impact of state testing on music classrooms in the United States.
Assessment Practices in Music Education, OUP - Ronald Sherwin & Tobias Monte (2016).
MCAS, PARCC, and the relationship between music instruction and state-mandated comprehensive assessments.
Connecting practice, measurement, and evaluation, GIA, 163-176. - Ronald Sherwin & Sarah McQuarrie (2013).
Assessment in music education: Relationships between classroom practice and professional publication topics.
Research & Issues in Music Education, 11(1)