Music Performance, B.M. - Voice Track

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

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

Music Performance B.M. students will be able to:

   • notate a newly encountered melody accurately and efficiently.
   • demonstrate competency in musical performance.
   • demonstrate knowledge of pivotal historical events, societal attitudes, aesthetic and artistic trends, and to identify their interrelationship with music.
   • synthesize technical and musical knowledge via musical performance.

Program Requirements

Non-Music Liberal Arts Electives: 3 Credits

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

Upper Division Music History or Theory Electives: 9 Credits

Performance: 25 Credits

MUCS 430 - Performance Class 3 Credit(s) (8 @ 3 credits)
30-Minute Recital (no credit)
MUCP 499 - Senior Recital Performance 1 Credit(s)

Voice Performance Majors: 35 Credits

DRAM 206 - Fundamentals of Technical Theatre 4 Credit(s)
MUCP 131 - Introduction to Diction 2 Credit(s)
MUCP 303 - Performance Practices for Singers I 3 Credit(s)
MUCP 330 - Vocal Pedagogy 2 Credit(s)
MUCC 201 - Functional Keyboard Choral and General Music I 1 Credit(s)
MUCC 202 - Functional Keyboard Choral and General Music II 1 Credit(s)
MUCC 301 - Functional Keyboard Choral III 1 Credit(s)
MUCC 302 - Functional Keyboard Choral IV 1 Credit(s)
MUCP 418 - Vocal Coaching 1 Credit(s) (2 @ 1 credit)
MUCP 430 - Art Song Repertoire 0-3 Credit(s) (taken for 2 credits)
Music Electives (limit one ensemble per semester) 3 Credits

Ensembles

Details about specific ensemble requirements can be found in the Crane Student Handbook.
Major Choral Ensembles (6 @ 1 credit)
Opera (3 @ 1 credit)

Two Additional Diction Courses

(2 @ 2 credits each) selected from

MUCP 231 - English Diction 2 Credit(s)
MUCP 233 - Italian Diction 2 Credit(s)
MUCP 235 - French Diction 2 Credit(s)
MUCP 237 - German Diction 2 Credit(s)

Total Credit Hours Required: 125

Note(s)

Performance majors should satisfactorily complete the Level A audition by the end of the freshman year; the Level B audition by the end of the sophomore year; and the Level C audition by the end of the junior year. Failure to meet this schedule could result in a recommendation to change major or applied area.
Performance majors must satisfactorily complete a Thirty-Minute Recital (for 0 credit); this should be done during the junior year. Performance majors must also satisfactorily complete a Sixty-Minute Recital (registering for MUCP 499 for 1 credit); this should be done during the senior year.
A grade of 2.0 or higher is required in each music course in order for it to count toward a major in music. In courses that are sequential, a grade of 2.0 or higher is required for the student to advance to the next course in the sequence.
Bachelor of Music majors are exempt from the college physical education/health and wellness requirement.