Music Education

Description

The student majoring in Music Education receives preparation for a career in Early Childhood and Elementary or Middle Level and High School music education. Students wishing to pursue teaching licensure declare a second major in Education.

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 Education Major

57 credits: 24 credits in residence, 25 credits upper division. Required: