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44 credits
Prerequisites:
The successful music major will enter the program with music-reading ability and previous music performance experience and study. The level of each student's abilities and experience will be initially assessed through a music placement survey, auditions for ensembles and placement evaluations by private lesson instructors. Based on this assessment, the student may be required to take one or more of the following courses:
| MUS101 |
Basic Musicianship |
2 |
| MUS111 |
Class Piano I |
2 |
| MUS112 |
Class Piano II |
2 |
General Education - choose 2-4 credits:
| MUS120 |
Music and the Human Experience |
2 |
| INT300 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Harlem Renaissance |
4 |
Required: (27 credits)
| MUS201 |
Musicianship I |
4 |
| MUS202 |
Musicianship II |
4 |
| MUS301 |
Musicianship III |
4 |
| MUS302 |
Musicianship IV |
4 |
| MUS321 |
Music History I |
3 |
| MUS322 |
Music History II |
3 |
| MUS323 |
Music History III |
3 |
(Note: Beginning in 2004-2005, the two course Music History sequence changes to this sequence of three 3-credit courses.)
| MUS7xx |
4 semesters ensemble @0-2 credit each |
0-8 |
| MUS8xx |
4 semesters private lessons
@ 1 credit each |
4 |
Electives: (7-9 credits)
Electives may be chosen from any music offerings. (9 for the Applied and Music History tracks, 7 for the Theory/Composition track.) Up to 2 credits may be drawn from 700- level ensemble courses.
Track: (select one of the following 8 credit tracks)
Applied Music Track (8 credits)
| MUS9xx |
3 semesters honors lessons @ 2 credits each |
6 |
| choose 2 credits: |
| MUS494 |
Sr. Project: Conducting Recital |
2 |
| MUS495 |
Sr. Project: Recital |
2 |
Music History Track (8 credits)
| MUS493 |
Sr. Project: Thesis |
2 |
| choose 4 credits: |
| MUS220 |
Topics in Music (repeatable) |
2 |
| MUS430 |
History of Sacred Music |
4 |
| MUS431 |
Congregational Song |
4 |
| choose 2 credits: |
| MUS423 |
Vocal Literature |
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| MUS424 |
Keyboard Literature |
2 |
| MUS425 |
Choral Literature |
2 |
| MUS426 |
Instrumental (Band) Literature |
2 |
| MUS427 |
Organ Literature |
2 |
Music Theory/Composition Track (10 credits)
| MUS365 |
Electronic Instrument Techniques & Pedagogy |
2 |
| MUS444 |
Instrumental Arranging |
1 |
| MUS445 |
Choral Arranging |
1 |
| MUS890 |
2 semesters of Composition lessons @ 1 credit each |
2 |
| MUS990 |
Honors Composition lessons |
2 |
| MUS492 |
Sr. Project: Composition Recital |
2 |
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