Ronald Sherwin

faculty

Ronald Sherwin, PhD

Professor / Chairperson

Music

Department Chair, Choral Music EducationUniversity Chorus, Social Justice Choir
Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-910-6949

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College of Visual & Performing Arts 204A

Education

2004The University of MainePhD
2000The University of MaineMM
1995Castleton State UniversityBA

Teaching

  • Music Education
  • Assessment
  • Conducting
  • Music History/Performance Practice

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.

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.

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.

Teaching

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.

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)