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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Music Performance, B.M.
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Admission to the Bachelor of Music program in music performance is granted only after the successful completion of an audition in the student’s performance area.
To earn a Bachelor of Music degree in music performance, a student must complete 120 credit hours and have at least a 2.0 grade-point standing. At the conclusion of the sophomore year and before continuing in music performance at the upper division level, each student must perform before the music performance faculty for approval. Each student must also present a full recital during the senior year.
Students in music performance must complete the following:
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I. Intellectual Inquiry in Arts and Creativity
II. Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities
III. Intellectual Inquiry in the Social Sciences
IV. Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences
V. Composition and Communication I
VI. Composition and Communication II
VII. Quantitative Foundations
VIII. Statistical Inferential Reasoning
IX. Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA
Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR)
Major Requirements
Music Theory,
Major Instrument Study
- Choose option from Instrument, Piano, Organ or Voice (see below) Credit(s): 24
Recital Attendance
Music History
Large Ensemble
- For instrumental and piano majors: MUC 175 , MUC 187 , MUC 188 , MUC 189 , MUC 191 (001 or 401)
- For voice and piano majors: MUC 174 , MUC 192 (001, 002 or 003)
- For guitar majors: MUC 177
- All music majors must participate in large conductor led ensembles directly related to their primary instrument each semester in residence, as determined by ensemble conductors in consultation with studio faculty. Voice majors with a significant performance commitment to a major Opera Theatre production may be allowed to reduce large choral ensemble participation to a minimum of six semesters and eight credits of large choral ensemble participation, by advance approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Each semester. Credit(s): 8
Subtotal: Major hours: 60
Students in music performance must choose one of the following concentrations:
Concentration in an Instrument
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination and should schedule, in consultation with their advisor, a suitable course each semester until this requirement is completed. Students with little or no prior piano study should normally expect to complete the piano proficiency examination by the end of four semesters of study Credit(s): 0-4
- Music Theory: MUS 370 , MUS 371 , MUS 372 , and choice of MUS 572 or MUS 573 Credit(s): 9
- Conducting: MUS 358 Credit(s): 2
- Electives Credit(s): 13
- Senior Recital (MUP 440 ): the successful completion of a solo recital must be completed for graduation.
Subtotal: Instrument Concentration: 24-28
Concentration in Piano
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination. Piano majors work toward this goal as part of their keyboard study Credit(s): 0
- Music Theory: MUS 370 , MUS 372 , and choice of MUS 572 or MUS 573 Credit(s): 7
- Piano Literature: MUS 522 Credit(s): 3
- Piano Pedagogy: MUS 566 Credit(s): 3
- Conducting: MUS 358 Credit(s): 2
- Electives Credit(s): 15
- Senior Recital (MUP 440 ): the successful completion of a solo recital must be completed for graduation.
Subtotal: Piano Concentration: 30
Concentration in Organ
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination. Organ majors work toward this goal as part of their keyboard study Credit(s) 0
- Piano - one credit course MUP 101 , MUP 201 , each repeated once Credit(s): 4
- Music Theory: MUS 370 , MUS 372 , and choice of MUS 572 or MUS 573 Credit(s): 7
- Organ Literature: MUS 521 Credit(s): 3
- Conducting: MUS 358 Credit(s): 2
- Electives Credit(s): 14
- Senior Recital (MUP 440 ): the successful completion of a solo recital must be completed for graduation.
Subtotal: Organ Concentration: 30
Concentration in Voice
- All music majors must pass a piano proficiency examination and should schedule, in consultation with their advisor, a suitable course each semester until this requirement is completed. Students with little or no prior piano study should normally expect to complete the piano proficiency examination by the end of four semesters of study Credit(s): 0-4
- Music Theory: MUS 370 , MUS 372 , and choice of MUS 572 or MUS 573 Credit(s): 7
- Foreign Language - Select two languages from Italian, French, or German and pass the third semester course of one language (or demonstrate equivalent competence) and the second semester course of another language (or demonstrate equivalent competence); or from these same three languages, pass the second semester course of one language (or demonstrate equivalent competence), the second semester course of a second language (or demonstrate equivalent competence) and the first semester of a third language (or demonstrate equivalent competence) Credit(s): 0-19
- Foreign Language Vocal Diction: MUS 120 (four semesters) Credit(s): 4
- Vocal Solo Literature: MUS 520 Credit(s): 3
- Conducting: MUS 358 Credit(s): 2
- Opera Workshop: MUC 196 (two semesters) Credit(s): 2
- Movement for Singers: MUC 197 Credit(s): 1
- Opera Practicum: MUC 198 (two semesters) Credit(s): 2
- Electives Credit(s): 6-8
- Senior Recital (MUP 440 ): the successful completion of a solo recital must be completed for graduation.
Subtotal: Voice Concentration: 27-52
Total Hours: minimum of 120
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