Music Business
Description
The Music Business degree prepares students for careers in business that are related to the music industry, such as retail, recording/production, publishing, instruction, etc. Information on how the student might start his/her own business will also be presented.
Departmental Outcomes
- Graduates will be able to perform classical (Western art music), jazz, and popular (including contemporary Christian music) repertoire with authority and confidence as soloists, in small ensembles, and large ensembles.
- Graduates will be able to explain the formal, melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and textural structure of music, to facilitate musicianship in composing, conducting, performing, and intelligent listening.
- Graduates will be able to notate melodies and rhythms accurately from hearing them and describe their patterns and motives.
- Graduates will be able to sing melodies and rhythms accurately at sight.
- Graduates will be able to sight-read music, harmonize melodies, and improvise at the keyboard.
- Graduates will be able to arrange and/or re-orchestrate music idiomatically and suitably for vocal and instrumental ensembles as needed.
- Graduates will be able to place any composition or composer in correct historical and stylistic context.
- Graduates will be able to apply principles of music history to make their performances authentic and germane to the historical period of the work in question.
- Graduates will be able to conduct vocal and instrumental ensembles in rehearsals and performances.
- Graduates will be able to evaluate music and music performances.
- Graduates will be able to teach music to students of varying ages in different settings, depending on their particular call as music educator, music minister, or private music teacher.
- Graduates will be able to write music in various styles and modeling various historical musical periods.
- Music Education graduates will also be able to play and instruct on at least an elementary level in all orchestral instruments and voice.
- Music/Business graduates will be able also to start and manage businesses involving music, such as music instrument and sheet music stores, arts management services, or Internet services.
Courses
Part 1: General Education Core
(See Core Studies Requirements)
Part 2: Music Business Major
58 Credits, 30 in residence. 30 credits upper division. Required:
| MUS 121A | Theory I | 3 |
| MUS 121B | Aural Skills I | 1 |
| MUS 122A | Theory II | 3 |
| MUS 122B | Aural Skills II | 1 |
| MUS 221A | Theory III | 3 |
| MUS 221B | Functional Keyboard Skills II | 1 |
| MUS 241 | Intro to Music Literature | 2 |
| MUS 101/201/301 | Applied Music | 1 |
| MUS 102/202/302 | Applied Music | 1 |
| MUS 201/203/301/303/401 | Applied Music | 1 |
| MUS 202/204/302/304/402 | Applied Music | 1 |
| MUS 114A or MUS 115A | Concert Choir or Wind Ensemble | 1-2 |
| MUS 114B or MUS 115B | Concert Choir or Wind Ensemble | 1-2 |
| MUS 314A or MUS 315A | Concert Choir or Wind Ensemble | 1-2 |
| MUS 314B or MUS 315B | Concert Choir or Wind Ensemble | 1-2 |
| BUS 211 | Principles of Accounting I | 3 |
| BUS 240 | Principles of Marketing I | 2 |
| BUS 241 | Principles of Marketing II | 2 |
| BUS/COMM 260 | Organizational Communication | 2 |
| BUS 301 | Introduction to Law | 2 |
| BUS 302 | Business Law | 2 |
| BUS 310 | Management Theory and Practice | 3 |
| BUS 321 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BUS 360 | Corporate Finance I | 2 |
| BUS 495M | Internship | 12 |
| Select a minimum of six credits from the following: | ||
| MUS 100G | Class Guitar | 2 |
| MUS 100P | Class Piano | 2 |
| MUS 100V | Class Voice | 2 |
| MUS 221A | Theory III | 3 |
| MUS 222A | Theory IV | 3 |
| MUS 222B | Functional Keyboard Skills II | 1 |
| MUS 240 | Intro Music Ministries | 2 |
| MUS 281 | Woodwind Techniques | 1 |
| MUS 282 | Percussion Techniques | 1 |
| MUS 283 | Vocal Techniques | 1 |
| MUS 284 | Brass Techniques | 1 |
| MUS 285 | String Techniques | 1 |
| MUS 330 | Conducting Skills | 2 |
| MUS 331 | Choral Conducting | 2 |
| MUS 332 | Instrumental Conducting | 2 |
| MUS 383 | Resources for Worship Arts Leadership | 3 |
| MUS 385 | Pedagogy with Internship | 2 |
