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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Music Performance Major - Instrumental (Bachelor of Music)


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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, performance techniques, a comprehensive study of instrumental and vocal repertoire, studio teaching, an overview of the ensemble literature associated with their performance area, lyric theater, and opera. 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 performing artists and independent professional musicians as well as for entrance into graduate degree programs.

 

Student Learning Outcomes

The Nazareth University 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, ensemble and 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 University core curriculum.

The Bachelor of Music in Music Performance-Instrumental requires a minimum of 120 credits.

Core Curriculum Requirements


All Nazareth students complete Core Curriculum coursework as part of their degree requirements. The Core provides a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences while guiding students to pose and explore their own intellectual questions. See Academic Policies and Procedures  for specific core curriculum requirements. 

Music Core (Music Performance-Instrumental)


Bachelor of Music Core (Music Performance-Instrumental)


Students pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Performance-Instrumental must take the following (in addition to the courses listed above):

Instrumental Performance Major Required Courses


In addition to the Cores listed above, Instrumental Performance students are required to take the following courses:

  • MUP 2_ - 2 Performance Secondary Lessons Credits: 2
  • ENS 0_ - Minor Ensemble 6 semesters Credits: 0

Upper Division Music Electives


Elective Requirements by Program

  • Bachelor of Arts in Music - complete one upper division music elective from either Music Theory or Music History
  • Bachelor of Music in Composition - complete three upper division music electives
  • Bachelor of Music in Music Education - complete one upper division music elective from either Music Theory or Music History
  • Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy - complete one upper division music elective (three credits)
  • Bachelor of Music in Music Performance (Voice) - complete one upper division music electives in Music Theory and one upper division elective in Music History
  • Bachelor of Music in Music Performance (Piano, Instrumental) - complete four upper division music electives; at least one must be in Music Theory and one must be in Music History

Music Senior Experience


The culminating senior course for the BM in Music Performance is the Senior Recital Honors, an experiential learning course engaging students in demonstrating the practical application of knowledge and skills acquired in the study of applied music, music history, music theory and the liberal arts.

Sample Program for Music Performance Major - Instrumental


FRESHMAN YEAR
Fall Semester Spring Semester
MUX 099 School of Music Orientation   0 ENGW 102 Argument and Research   3
ENGW 101 Exposition   3 MUS 124 Music Theory II   3
ACS 101 Academic and College Success   1 MUS 126 Aural Skills II   1
FYS - PEQ (1) 3 MUS.Q 104 Introduction to World Music  PEQ (2) 3
MUG 131 Piano Class I   1 PEQ (3) 3
MUS 123 Music Theory I      3 MUG 132 Piano Class II   1
MUS 125 Aural Skills I   1 ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1
ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1 MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 2
MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 2 MUX 019 Concert Attendance   0
MUX 019 Concert Attendance   0    
TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 14.5 TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 16.5
 
SOPHOMORE YEAR
Fall Semester Spring Semester
PEQ (4) Science with Lab 4 PEQ (5) 3
MUS 223 Music Theory III   3 MUG 232 Piano Class IV   1
MUS 225 Aural Skills III   1 MUS 212 The History of Western Music II: The Baroque Period to the Late Nineteenth Century   3
MUG 231 Piano Class III   1 MUS 224 Music Theory IV   3
MUS 211 The History of Western Music I: Antiquity to the Baroque Period        3 MUS 226 Aural Skills IV   1
MUG 097 Wellness for Musicians   0 MUS 272 Introduction to Conducting   1
MUG 141 Voice Class I   1 MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3
MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3 ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1
ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1 ENS __ Minor Ensemble 0
ENS __ Minor Ensemble 0 MUX 019 Concert Attendance   0
MUX 019 Concert Attendance   0 MUX 232 Keyboard Proficiency Exam    0
TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 16.5 TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 15.5
 
JUNIOR YEAR
Fall Semester Spring Semester
PEQ (6) 3 PEQ (8) 3
PEQ (7) 3 Integrative Studies (IS) - 1 3
MED __ Techniques I 1 MED __ Techniques II 1
MUS 317 The History of Western Music III: Music Since 1900   3 MUP 461 Studio Teaching I   1
MUS 372 Instrumental Conducting   2 MUS 4__ Upper Division Music Theory Elective 3
MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3 MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3
MUP 2_ Performance Secondary Lesson 1 MUP 2_ Performance Secondary Lesson 1
ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1 ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1
ENS __ Minor Ensemble 0 ENS __ Minor Ensemble 0
TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 16.5 TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 15.5
 
SENIOR YEAR
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Integrative Studies/DEIB (IS/DEIB) - 2 3 Integrative Studies (IS) - 3 3
MUS 3/4__ Upper Division Music Theory Elective 3 CME 050 Core Milestone Experience   0
MUS 4__ Upper Division Music Theory Elective 3 MUS 3/4__ Upper Division Music Theory Elective 3
MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3 MUP 315 Instrumental Music History and Literature   3
ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1 MUX 496 Senior Recital Honors Keyboard Guitar  or
MUX 498 Senior Recital Honors Voice Band Orchestra  
0
ENS __ Minor Ensemble 0 ENS __ Major Ensemble .5-1
    MUP 1_ Performance Primary Lessons 3
TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 12.5 TOTAL SEMESTER CREDITS 12.5

 

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