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2020-2021 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Music Performance, B.M. - Orchestral Instruments Track


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The Performance degree is offered in percussion, piano, string instruments (including guitar and harp), wind instruments and voice.

General Education Requirements


Candidates for the B.M. degree must satisfy the General Education requirements described below. Information for each specific degree program and degree sequence sheets can be found here: https://www.potsdam.edu/the-quad/resources/crane-student-resources/degree-programsadvising (click on “Current Crane Students” and then “Degree Plans” and select the Academic Year for the year the student entered college).

The liberal arts courses and other College requirements must be distributed as follows:

General Education Foundations: 7 Credits Minimum


Communication Experience: 4 Credits


[FW] First-Year Writing (1 course)

Quantitative Experience: 3 Credits


[FM] First-Year Mathematics (1 course)

Critical Thinking Experience:


FC courses can double count for another General Education requirement or Liberal Arts Elective.

[FC] Critical Thinking (1 course)

Music Education Majors:


The Modes of Inquiry: 9 Credits


*No more than eight credits taken in Crane may be applied to the Modes of Inquiry. As the WC, AE, and AC requirements are met by required music courses, most students take the XC outside of Crane. If a student wanted to use an XC course within Crane, they would need to take 3 credits of WC/AH or three credits of AC outside of Crane.

Scientific Inquiry [SP] or [SB]: 3 Credits


Physical or Biological (1 course)

A laboratory experience (1 credit) is optional, but not required

Social Analysis [SA]: 3 Credits


(1 course)

Music Education Majors:

Music Business Majors:

*Western Civilization [WC] or American History [AH]: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum

*Cross-Cultural Perspective [XC]: 3 Credits


(1 course)

Requirement must be taken outside of music unless AC or WC is being fulfilled by a non-music course.

*Aesthetic Experiential [AE]: 2 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum.

*Aesthetic Critical [AC]: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum.

Language Proficiency: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) must be met as defined by SUNY Potsdam. See General Education  Manual for more information. Modern Language courses are counted as liberal arts electives.

Physical Education/Health and Wellness (PE/HW): 1-2 Credits


2 experiences. See General Education  section.

Music Education Majors:


Total Credit Hours Required: 17-18


Program Requirements


Non-Music Liberal Arts Electives: 9 Credits


Basic Musicianship Sequence: 29 Credits Required for Bachelor of Music Degrees


Students with a studio emphasis in piano are exempt from the two Keyboard Skills courses.

 

Upper Division Music History or Theory Electives: 9 Credits


Performance: 25 Credits


Orchestral Instruments: 29 Credits


Ensembles


Major (8 @ 1 credit)
Other (2 @ 1 credit)

Total Credit Hours Required: 120


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