Music Major
The Academic Music Program, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, offers a music major, a music minor and music elective courses, individual private lessons, and performing ensembles. The program provides the environment and opportunity to hear, experience, and participate in the art of music. The study of music both as a knowledgeable listener, creator, and/or performer nurtures an important human aesthetic dimension.
Music, in its many cultural manifestations, touches upon the enduring questions of human meaning and value. It serves as an opportunity to develop imagination, creativity, and understanding and gives students the opportunity to use and further help their own skills and talents. The program’s goal is to encourage students to experience music so that a foundation for continued learning, appreciation, and enrichment is created.
Degree Requirements for Music Major
The BA in Music, housed in the Department of Media & Performing Arts, is a 48-credit major with 36 core credits in music theory, history, and applied music, and a 12-credit concentration in either performance or music production.
MUSIC THEORY
| MU 115 | Sight Singing and Ear Training I | 1 |
| MU 116 | Sight Singing and Ear Training II | 1 |
| MU 121 | Musicianship I | 3 |
| MU 122 | Musicianship II | 3 |
| MU 123 | Musicianship III | 3 |
| MU 235 | Sight Singing and Ear Training III | 1 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
MUSIC HISTORY & LITERATURE
Take 3 courses of Music History or Literature
APPLIED MUSIC
Take 10 credits in Applied Lessons
Take 3 credits in Ensembles
PIANO PROFICIENCY
Keyboard Skills I 1 credit
Keyboard Skills II 1 credit
CONCENTRATIONS
Performance
Junior Recital 1 credit
Senior Recital 1 credit
Additional Applied Lessons 6 credits
Additional Ensembles 4 credits
OR
Music Production
Take 4 Music Production courses 12 credits
For those students within the performance concentration, two recitals are required, one during the junior year and one during the senior year. The approximate length of the recital should be a minimum of 60 minutes. In consultation and with the final approval of faculty, the students are required to select repertoire, choose accompanying musicians, create a program and send out invitations. The purpose of the recitals is for the student to demonstrate their theoretical and practical music skills but should also demonstrate the student’s understanding of how to present himself or herself in a concert setting as well as how to organize and promote an event.
For those students within the music production concentration, a final project is required during the senior year. In consultation and with the final approval of faculty, the student creates a music production project that demonstrates their theoretical and practical music production skills.