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Performance Major (PRFM)

Student Learning Goals

The Bachelor of Music degree is the initial professional degree in music. Its primary emphasis is on development of the skills, concepts, and sensitivities essential to the professional life of the musician. In any of many possible roles, the professional musician must exhibit not only technical competence, but also a broad knowledge of music and music literature, the ability to integrate musical knowledge and skill, sensitivity in musical style, and an insight into the role of music in intellectual and cultural life.

Requirements

I General Education Core Requirements (GEC)

See complete GEC requirements and approved course listings for all categories.

Core Category	S.H.
Students may select courses for:
Literature (GLT)	3
Historical Perspectives on Western Culture (GHP)	3
Mathematics (GMT)	3
Natural Sciences (GNS) one must be a laboratory course; each must have a different departmental prefix	7
Social and Behavioral Sciences (GSB)	6
Department specifies courses for:
Fine Arts (GFA) student may select any GFA course except MUS	3
One additional GLT, GFA, or GPR course required: MUS 332	3
Philosophical, Religious, Ethical Principles (GPR) MUS 135	3
Reasoning and Discourse (GRD) ENG 101 or FMS 115 or RCO 101, and one additional GRD course	6

 

II General Education Marker Requirements

See details and courses. It is possible to meet all GE Marker Requirements while completing the GE Core requirements or courses required by the major/concentration.

 

III Major Requirements

Core courses for all concentrations

1. Theory: MUS 101, 102, 105, 106, 201, 202, 205, 206, 301
2. Performance Studies: 12 s.h.
3. Technology: MTD 107, 108
4. MUP 402 Seminar in Career Development

Composition Concentration

1. Composition: 2 semesters (4 s.h.) of MUS 115 (beyond Performance Studies core requirement) culminating in MUP 452 and a senior recital, MUP 400
2. Principal Performance Area: 8 s.h.
3. Musicology: MUS 135, 332, 333, and one of the following: 533, 534
4. Class Piano: 2 s.h. through MUP 134 or proficiency (not required of keyboard principals)
5. Large Ensemble: 8 s.h. from MUP 380, 381A, 381B, 382, 388, 391, 393, 394A, 394B, 376 (Contemporary Chamber Players), up to 2 s.h. of 395 for trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, guitar, saxophone, and bass principals by audition and with permission of the performance studies teacher
6. Small Ensemble: 2 s.h. from MUP 347, 348, 376, 377, 396
7. MUS 203, 350; MUP 372; MUS 508, 510, 566

Jazz Concentration

1. Performance Studies, Jazz Lessons: 16 s.h. culminating in 2 s.h. of MUP 452 and a senior recital, MUP 400, in jazz literature
2. Small Group Jazz: MUP 348 (4 s.h.)
3. Musicology: MUS 135, 332, 333, and one of the following: MUS 431, 434, 511, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534
4. Class Piano (not required of keyboard principals): 2 s.h. through MUP 134 or proficiency
5. MUP 395: 8 s.h., or MUP 395: 6 s.h. and 2 s.h. of MUP 391, 393, 394A, 394B, 396G with permission of studio instructor
6. MUP 103, 104, 304, 321, 322; MUS 343; MUP 372, 401, 409, 423, 424, 460

Voice or Instrument Concentrations

1. Major area Performance Studies: 10 s.h. beyond core requirement culminating in 3 s.h. of MUP 452 and a senior recital, MUP 400
2. Secondary Performance Studies: 2 s.h.
3. Musicology: MUS 135, 332, 333, and one of the following: MUS 431, 434, 511, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534. May not duplicate upper-division History/Literature and Theory requirement (#5).
4. Conducting: 1 s.h.: MUP 319 or 372
5. History/Literature and Theory: 9 s.h. from MUP 413, 414, 415, 422, 423, 424; MUS 431; MUP 435, 436, 437, 460, 470, 471, 473; MUS 508, 510, 511; MUP 521, 528; MUS 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 538, 566 (two areas must be represented)
6. Additional requirements:

IV Electives

Electives sufficient to complete the 123 or 125 semester hours required for the degree.