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Music Performance Emphasis

All candidates for this emphasis must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements (42 hours), the music degree requirements (36 hours), as well as the course requirements necessary for this emphasis (53 hours).

A. 24 semester credit hours of music performance are required from the following courses, some of which may be repeated for credit.

1. Principal Instrument

MUS 1512 Music Performance-Private Instruction (one semester)
MUS 1542 Music Performance-Private Instruction I (one semester)
MUS 2542 Music Performance-Private Instruction II (two semesters)
MUS 3543 Music Performance-Private Instruction IV (two semesters)
MUS 4543 Music Performance-Private Instruction V (two semesters)

2. Secondary Instrument(s)

Non-Keyboard Principal Instrument:

MUS 1532 Functional Piano for Non-Keyboard Principals

Keyboard Principal Instrument:

MUS 1552 Functional Piano for Keyboard Principals

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2 semester credit hours from the following:

MUS 1511 Music Performance-Secondary Instrument
MUS 1512 Music Performance-Private Instruction
MUS 1521 Class Piano1
MUS 1531 Class Voice

B. 6 semester credit hours of music theory selected from the following courses:

MUS 3133 Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music
MUS 3143 Orchestration
MUS 4113 Composition with Contrapuntal Techniques

Exception: a student whose principal instrument is an orchestral instrument is required to take MUS 3143 Orchestration.

C. 4 semester credit hours of music literature (MUS 3252 Advanced Studies in Music Literature and Analysis)

Topics may include the following:

Vocal Literature (required of voice principals)
Operatic Literature (required of voice principals)
History and Literature of the Guitar (required of classical guitar principals)
Literature of the Pianoforte (required of piano principals)
Organ Literature (required of organ principals)
Orchestral Literature or Wind Literature (required of instrumental principals)

D. Piano principals are required to complete 4 semester credit hours of accompanying; MUS 2501 Accompanying may be repeated for credit to fulfill this requirement.

E. All music performance majors are required to complete 2 semester credit hours of MUS 4532 Music Pedagogy. Top

F. Voice principals are required to complete 4 semester credit hours of diction; MUS 3511 Diction for Singers may be repeated for credit to fulfill this requirement.

G. In order to demonstrate proficiency in one foreign language and acquire basic knowledge of a second, voice principals are required to complete at least two semesters of one foreign language (FRN 1014 and 1024, GER 1014 and 1024, or ITL 1014 and 1024) and one semester of a different foreign language (FRN 1014, GER 1014, or ITL 1014).

H. For all music performance majors except voice principals, free electives are required depending on principal instrument:

12 semester credit hours for piano principals
16 semester credit hours for all other performance majors

I. Admission to upper-division music performance as a music major must be approved by the appropriate qualifying committee; requirements for each area are specified in the Department of Music Student Handbook.

J. A senior recital (MUS 4561) approximately one hour in length must be presented and approved by the appropriate recital committee.

1.Students selecting keyboard as their principal instrument may not use MUS1521 to fulfill the secondary instrument requirement. Top

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