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Dec 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Bulletin
Music Performance BMus
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The Bachelor of Music in Performance degree is designed for students who are considering a future as professional performers. The Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance requires concentrated study in one of the following areas: piano or organ, stringed instruments, wind instruments, percussion instruments, or voice. This degree prepares students for a Master’s degree in performance. Students ordinarily complete this program in 4 years.
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Performance - 36+
- Major Instrument and voice: 16 credits (4 credits each of MUPF 165 , MUPF 265 , MUPF 365 , and MUPF 465 ).
- Ensemble: 8 credits. Bachelor of Music degree students majoring in piano or organ performance must take 2 credits of MUPF 405 Keyboard Accompaniment and 2 credits of MUPF 410 Collaborative Piano. The remaining 4 credits must be taken in one of the major ensembles.
- Recital: 3 credits. MUPF 397 - Recital - Junior (1 credit) and MUPF 497 - Recital - Senior (2 credits)
Other Music Requirements - 10+
- For piano and instrumental majors only: 10 credits of music electives
- For voice majors only: 12 credits of languages (minimum 2 different languages) to be selected from French, German, Italian, or Spanish
Additional Requirements
- Attendance at major area master classes
- Piano Proficiency
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will: - Exhibit effective technical and artistic skills in music performance of repertoire from a broad range of stylistic periods.
- Learn and apply pedagogical methods, techniques and tools related to their area of expertise as appropriate to their degree track.
- Demonstrate basic proficiency in the theoretical foundations of Western music through aural skills, analysis, composition, and improvisation.
- Demonstrate understanding of music history—including the development of musical styles and the contextual forces that shaped their development, primarily in the context of Western music, but also to a basic extent in American and world music.
- Demonstrate basic competencies in music technology (including digital notation and sequencing) and music research.
- Hone critical thinking skills by consciously making informed interpretation choices, connecting theoretical and historical understanding to musical performance, and developing a personal and discerning philosophy of music.
- Apprentice in a spirit of artistic community.
- Integrate faith and learning by hymnology/worship and music.
- Apprentice in a spirit of service.
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