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Music Majors  |  60-101 credits

The Music Department core courses are a strong foundation for study in concentrations that prepare students for careers in music. Each music major student must complete the core courses and a concentration to earn the bachelor of arts degree with a major in music. Piano music majors and minors must pass a keyboard proficiency examination. This examination may exempt them from the piano class requirement (MUSP 150/151).

Required Core Courses  |  45 credits

Music students may apply MUSI 104 and 3 credits of MUSP 102 towards General Education requirements

*Completion of second semester of the 300 level (appropriate to the student’s principal instrument) is required. Each course is 1 or 2 credits depending on level of study and major/minor status. For majors enrolled in 1-, 2- or 3-hundred levels, concurrent enrollment in the corresponding Performance Lab (MUSA 101, 201 or 301) for 1 credit is required. Students in 400 level applied study are not required to attend Performance Lab. Concurrent registration in Large Ensemble appropriate to the student’s principal instrument is required.

**Enrollment in the section of Large Ensemble appropriate to the student’s principal instrument is required for majors. Each course is 1 credit per semester.


Applied Music Requirement
Private Instruction in music performance is available to music majors and minors under the prefix MUSA, for applied music. Concurrent registration in an academic course in music and appropriate large ensemble are required. (See Large Ensemble Requirement section for further information).

Instruction is offered in piano, organ, trumpet, horn, trombone, baritone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, string bass, classical guitar, harp, harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, voice, and percussion. Consult the Music Department Chair for details. Course numbers indicate the level of study. Freshman, sophomore, and junior levels are 1-credit courses that require concurrent enrollment in the correlating Performance Lab (MUSA 101, 201 or 301), which is also 1 credit. Senior levels are 2-credit courses and do not require concurrent enrollment in Performance Lab. The applied levels are indicated by an initial number of 1, 2, 3, or 4. Music minor students and music majors who study a secondary instrument enroll in the first semester of 100 level for 1 credit only.

Successful completion of a full faculty jury is required for enrollment at the 300-level. Students must demonstrate a breadth of musical styles and genres at the full faculty jury as well as the musicality and technical mastery of their instrument that are, in the judgment of the faculty, appropriate for admission to upper division applied study. To be granted access to a full faculty jury, the student must complete or be in the process of completing MUSI 121 and MUSP 136 with a grade of C or better. No student may take the full faculty jury more than twice. Students who do not pass full faculty jury in their second attempt will be dropped from the music major.

Completion of the second semester 300 applied level is required for graduation in the music major.

**Approved transfer classes worth fewer credits than the equivalent class can reduce the ##-credit requirement.

Large Ensemble Requirement
While all students are encouraged to play and/or sing in departmental large ensembles, the department requires all applied music students (full-time and part-time) to participate in an ensemble. Large ensemble graduation requirement is 8 credits for all music majors. Only the following ensembles are considered to be large ensembles:

Chorale (MUSP 102 section 001)

Wind Ensemble (MUSP 102 section 002)

Parkside Symphony (MUSP 102 section 003)

Voice as primary instrument - enrollment in Chorale is required in every semester of full-time enrollment.

Orchestral String as primary instrument - enrollment in Parkside Symphony is required in every semester of full-time enrollment.

Band Instrument as primary instrument - enrollment in Wind Ensemble is required in every semester of full-time enrollment.

Classical Guitar as primary instrument - any of the three required large ensembles (Chorale, Wind Ensemble or Parkside Symphony) in consultation with their music advisor. Classical guitar majors may substitute 4 credits of their large ensemble requirement for 4 credits of guitar ensemble.

Keyboard as primary instrument - any of the three required large ensembles (Chorale, Wind Ensemble or Parkside Symphony) in consultation with their music advisor. Keyboard majors may substitute 4 credits of their large ensemble requirement for 4 credits of piano accompanying.

Jazz studies concentration students are expected to be enrolled in jazz ensemble and in 4 semesters of jazz combo (MUSP 366) in addition to their large ensemble requirement.

Contemporary Commercial Music – Voice Emphasis concentration students may substitute up to 2 credits of Large Ensemble with enrollment in any of the courses below during their year of 400-level applied study: MUSP 368 Contemporary A Cappella Ensemble –OR- MUSP 369 Contemporary Commercial Music Ensemble.

**Approved transfer classes worth fewer credits than the equivalent class can reduce the ##-credit requirement.