Mar 29, 2024  
Permanent Working Catalog (Spring 2025 Draft In Progress) 
    
Permanent Working Catalog (Spring 2025 Draft In Progress)

Music Performance: Piano Emphasis, BM


This major is administered by the area of Music  in the School of Performing Arts .

Admitted by audition only. Your performance proficiency will be reviewed at the end of your freshman year for permission to continue. In your first semester, with your applied teacher’s approval, you may audition to enter the performance degree program in the second semester of the freshman year. You must perform a half recital in your junior year and a full recital in your senior year. You must complete the 400 level of study.

Program Learning Outcomes

The Music Program Learning Outcomes are: 

  1. As a Music student, you will be able to perform at appropriate levels for professional engagement
  2. You will demonstrate the disposition to cultivate a career in music. You will demonstrate an ongoing commitment to your own learning while maintaining high standards of professionalism
  3. You will be able to analyze, create, and interpret music and use this knowledge to enrich your work as musicians
  4. Youi will be able to classify and contextualize repertoire from diverse eras and traditions
  5. You will be able to employ critical thinking and self-reflection in the thoughtful and strategic planning, instruction, and assessment in music pedagogy. Your teaching will demonstrate a mastery of content knowledge and consider context, standards, essential questions, enduring understandings, and meaningful objectives and assessments


Consists of 78 credits

Applied music, 28 credits


Take 4 credits from


Note


Placement exam required. If insufficient background, MUS 109  is prerequisite.

Conducting, 2 credits


Music literature and history, 15 credits


Pedagogy, 2 credits


Required ensemble, 9 credits


Large Ensemble, 4 credits


Collaborative Piano and Chamber Ensemble, 2 credits


Note


Concurrent enrollment in a large ensemble is required for all music majors taking applied lessons (see Note 3 ). For piano majors, this requirement can be satisfied by enrolling in any of the ensembles listed above.

Entrepreneurship, 2 credits


Recital, 0 credits