Music, B.A. Learning Outcomes

All students in the Music, B.A. program of study will:

Demonstrate a foundational knowledge of the principles of western harmony, part-writing practices, and formal musical structures, through analysis and composition. Students will exhibit competence in aural skills: sight-singing and melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation. Students will examine music theory as evidenced in jazz and other popular music styles, developing songwriting and arranging skills.
Identify characteristics of western musical style periods and be acquainted with the broader world of music in global and popular traditions.
Demonstrate keyboard proficiency, performing scales, progressions, accompaniments, and appropriate solo works.

Students in the Music Industry and Recording Technology Track will:

Demonstrate facility in using sound technology for use in the studio, live performances, and in editing and processing sound samples.
Regularly perform and demonstrate proficiency on primary and secondary instruments. Students will study and perform an appropriate repertoire of solo literature accurately and expressively. Students will perform on their instrument(s) in large and small ensembles, engaging in technical, historic, artistic, and expressive decision making in a collaborative environment.

Students in the Music and Business Entertainment Track will:

Demonstrate facility in using sound technology for use in the studio, live performances, and in editing and processing sound samples.
Possess a foundational understanding of business and will apply these principles and practices to a real-world music industry environment by showing an understanding of various approaches to professional development, including job-seeking strategies and interview techniques. As students of music business, they will demonstrate an understanding of the principles of economics and functional knowledge of accounting.

Students in the Performance and Pedagogy Track will:

Regularly perform and demonstrate proficiency on primary and secondary instruments. Students will study and perform an appropriate repertoire of solo literature accurately and expressively. Students will perform on their instrument(s) in large and small ensembles, engaging in technical, historic, artistic, and expressive decision making in a collaborative environment.
demonstrate both a grasp of the processes and methods of teaching music in their performance area (pedagogy) as well as a firm knowledge of the materials and musical literature of their area (repertoire).