Music

Programs

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Undergraduate

Majors

  • BS in Music
    • Performance Concentration
      This concentration provides a solid foundation for a career in the art of music. The program of study focuses on a core of substantial training and experience in the chosen performance medium.
    • Music Business Concentration
      This concentration prepares student musicians for careers in publishing, recording, sales, management, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, and the many other fields that make up the music business.
    • Theory/Composition Concentration
      This concentration prepares student musicians for advanced study leading to careers in music theory, composition, or other allied areas of music.
    • Jazz & Commercial Music Concentration
      This concentration provides a musical environment that helps prepare students for a performing career in today’s diverse world of professional music. It builds knowledge of composition, arranging, improvisation, technology, history, and business.
    • Music History and Literature Concentration
      Courses in historical musical topics, with emphasis on bibliography and research techniques, provide a foundation for graduate study leading to careers in musicology, musical criticism, and music librarianship.
  • BSEd in Music Education
    This degree prepares students for exciting careers as music educators in public, private, or parochial schools in pre-K through grade 12.
  • BA in Music
    This degree offers a broad-based program, with fewer major hours and more liberal arts elective hours.
  • BA in Music Business
    This program teaches music business foundations and concepts in order to manage the legal, financial, and creative issues faced by music business professionals in the global music marketplace. Unlike the BS in Music Business, no audition is required for entrance into the BA program.

Minors

Degree Requirements

View the "Four-Year Plans" below, which are also available from your advisor and the Music Office (Room 101 Shapiro Family Hall):

Graduate