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Bachelor of Music Degree

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree, including the Core Curriculum requirements, is 131 in the Music Performance concentration, 130 in the Composition concentration, 130 in the Music Marketing concentration, and 129 in the Music Studies concentration. Undergraduates seeking elementary teacher certification must complete the interdisciplinary studies degree.

All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the music degree requirements, which are listed below. In addition, a candidate for the Bachelor of Music degree must complete the course requirements for the concentration declared by the candidate.

Composition Concentration

All candidates for this concentration must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements (42 hours), the Music Degree Requirements (36 hours), as well as the course requirements necessary for this concentration (52 hours).

A. 16 semester credit hours of music performance courses are required from the following courses, some of which may be repeated for credit.

1. Principal Instrument

MUS 1512 Music Performance–Private Instruction (1 semester)
MUS 1542 Music Performance–Private Instruction I (1 semester)
MUS 2542 Music Performance–Private Instruction II (2 semesters)
MUS 3532 Music Performance–Private Instruction III (2 semesters)

2. Secondary Instrument(s)

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Non-Keyboard Principal Instrument:

MUS 1532 Functional Piano for Non-Keyboard Principals

Keyboard Principal Instrument:

MUS 1552 Functional Piano for Keyboard Principals

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. 15 additional required semester credit hours of music theory and composition:

MUS 2142 Composition I
MUS 3133 Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music
MUS 3143 Orchestration
MUS 3162 Composition II
MUS 4113 Composition with Contrapuntal Techniques
MUS 4142 Composition III

C. 2 semester credit hours of MUS 3252 Advanced Studies in Music Literature and Analysis (Music since 1950 topic).

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D. 3 semester credit hours of MUS 3123 Introduction to Electronic and Computer Music.

E. 15 semester credit hours of electives. Students intending to pursue graduate studies in Composition or Theory are strongly encouraged to take at least two semesters of a foreign language as electives; preferred languages include German, French, or Italian.

F. Students electing the Composition concentration must interview with the Composition Committee for approval to pursue the concentration at the upper-division level.

G. MUS 4561 Senior Recital is required of all students in the Composition concentration; the student's senior recital shall include a selection of the student's compositions totaling a minimum of 30 minutes. The student will submit completed musical scores representing a majority of the proposed recital program to an examining committee the semester before that of the recital. The examining committee shall determine the acceptability of the recital program.

1. Students selecting keyboard as their principal instrument may not use MUS 1521 to fulfill the secondary instrument requirement.

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