2020-2021 Catalog

Music in Performance B.M.

Retention Requirements

  1. Students must achieve a minimum grade of C in all required MUS courses.
  2. Students must pass Freshman Applied Proficiency upon completion of the first semester of Applied Music.

Course Requirements

Music Theory

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 230Music Theory I

3

Fall.
MUS 232Music Theory II

3

Spring.
MUS 234Music Theory III

3

Fall.
MUS 236Music Theory IV

3

Spring.
MUS 305Form and Analysis

3

Fall (odd years).

ONE COURSE from

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 307Composition

3

Fall (even years).
MUS 321Orchestration

3

Spring (odd years).
MUS 323Counterpoint

3

Spring (even years).
MUS 458Twentieth-Century Theory

3

As needed.

Sight Singing and Ear Training

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 113Basic Rhythm

1

Fall, Spring.
MUS 231Sight Singing and Ear Training I

1

Fall.
MUS 233Sight Singing and Ear Training II

1

Spring.
MUS 235Sight Singing and Ear Training III

1

Fall.
MUS 237Sight Singing and Ear Training IV

1

Spring.

Music History and Literature

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 167Music Cultures of Non-Western Worlds

4

Fall, Spring.
MUS 205Music History and Literature I

3

Fall.
MUS 206Music History and Literature II

3

Spring.
MUS 360Seminar in Music Literature

2

Spring.
Note: MUS 167/ANTH 167 will count as Arts GenEd course.

TWO COURSES from

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 310Medieval and Renaissance Music

3

Spring (even years).
MUS 311Music of the Baroque

3

Fall (even years).
MUS 312Music of the Classical Era

3

Spring (odd years).
MUS 313Music of the Romantic Period

3

Fall (odd years).
MUS 314Twentieth-Century Music

3

Spring (even years).

Class Instruments

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 104Class Piano I

1

Fall, Spring.
MUS 105Class Piano II

1

Fall, Spring.
MUS 308Fundamentals of Conducting

2

Fall.

Note: Voice majors are required to take MUS 210 and MUS 211.

Applied Music

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 391Junior Recital

0

Fall, Spring, Summer.
MUS 493Senior Recital-Music Performance Majors

0

Fall, Spring, Summer.

EIGHT SEMESTERS of each of the following groups

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 091Student Recital Series

0

Fall, Spring.
MUS 161-163Large Ensembles

0.5

Fall, Spring.
MUS 370-389Applied Music

3

Fall, Spring.

Cognates

FOUR CREDIT HOURS from

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
MUS 164-166Chamber Ensembles

1

MUS 210Language Orientation I

1

Fall.
MUS 211Language Orientation II

1

Spring.
MUS 268Opera Workshop

1

Fall, Spring.
MUS 366Accompanying

1

Fall, Spring.

Total Credit Hours: 75-77