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

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 230	Music Theory I	3	Fall.
MUS 232	Music Theory II	3	Spring.
MUS 234	Music Theory III	3	Fall.
MUS 236	Music Theory IV	3	Spring.
MUS 305	Form and Analysis	3	Fall (odd years).

ONE COURSE from

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 307	Composition	3	Fall (even years).
MUS 321	Orchestration	3	Spring (odd years).
MUS 323	Counterpoint	3	Spring (even years).
MUS 458	Twentieth-Century Theory	3	As needed.

Sight Singing and Ear Training

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 113	Basic Rhythm	1	Fall, Spring.
MUS 231	Sight Singing and Ear Training I	1	Fall.
MUS 233	Sight Singing and Ear Training II	1	Spring.
MUS 235	Sight Singing and Ear Training III	1	Fall.
MUS 237	Sight Singing and Ear Training IV	1	Spring.

Music History and Literature

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 167	Music Cultures of Non-Western Worlds	4	Fall, Spring.
MUS 205W	Music History and Literature I	3	Fall.
MUS 206W	Music History and Literature II	3	Spring.
MUS 360	Seminar in Music Literature	2	Spring.
	-Or-
PFA 461W	Senior Seminar	3	Spring.

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

TWO COURSES from

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 310	Medieval and Renaissance Music	3	Spring (even years).
MUS 311	Music of the Baroque	3	Fall (even years).
MUS 312	Music of the Classical Era	3	Spring (odd years).
MUS 313	Music of the Romantic Period	3	Fall (odd years).
MUS 314	Twentieth-Century Music	3	Spring (even years).

Class Instruments

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 104	Class Piano I	1	Fall, Spring.
MUS 105	Class Piano II	1	Fall, Spring.
MUS 308	Fundamentals of Conducting	2	Fall.

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

Applied Music

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 391W	Junior Recital	0	Fall, Spring, Summer.
MUS 493W	Senior Recital-Music Performance Majors	0	Fall, Spring, Summer.

EIGHT SEMESTERS of each of the following groups

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 091	Student Recital Series	0	Fall, Spring.
MUS 161-163	Large Ensembles	0.5	Fall, Spring.
MUS 370-389	Applied Music	3	Fall, Spring.

Cognates

FOUR CREDIT HOURS from

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
MUS 164-166	Chamber Ensembles	1
MUS 210	Language Orientation I	1	Fall.
MUS 211	Language Orientation II	1	Spring.
MUS 268	Opera Workshop	1	Fall, Spring.
MUS 366	Accompanying	1	Fall, Spring.

Total Credit Hours: 75-78