The Bachelor of Music degree in performance provides professional-level performance training for students who intend to pursue careers as performing musicians. The curriculum includes pedagogical coursework, a comprehensive study of the repertoire for the primary instrument, and an overview of the ensemble literature associated with the performance area. With an emphasis on applied music study, the program includes courses in the disciplines of music that inform and enrich the performance experience, including music theory and history, analysis, and conducting. The degree prepares students to assume leadership roles as independent professional musicians and for entrance into graduate degree programs.
Student Learning Outcomes
The Nazareth College Department of Music Bachelor of Music in Performance degree program provides students with an educational experience enabling them to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the standard solo and ensemble repertoire for their
instrument through musical performance.
2. Participate in a variety of solo and ensemble performances in formal and informal
settings, demonstrating the highest standards in artistic excellence including technical facility, good tone, and intonation, rhythmic vitality, accuracy and artistic expression.
3. Attain comprehensive musicianship capabilities enabling independent preparation of
performances demonstrating the highest standards in artistic excellence.
4. Demonstrate a practical and theoretical foundation in the pedagogy related to
individual performance areas, including the ability to construct a program of
instructions, to evaluate musical performances, diagnose problems and devise solutions.
5. Demonstrate performance musicianship informed by historical and analytical studies (comprehension of historical styles and performance practice).
6. Understand and demonstrate the basic principles of their technique with an appreciation for the application of that technique as a means to artistic communication
7. Employ and embody the tenets and values of the liberal arts in performance and educational practices within the context of the broad spectrum of liberal arts in the Nazareth College core curriculum.
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