Music Performance, Jazz, BMU

Program Overview

This program offers a comprehensive music performance curriculum with a focus on jazz studies. Students develop their musical skills through core courses in music theory, aural skills, and keyboard proficiency. They also specialize in jazz through courses in jazz theory, improvisation, and composition. The program culminates in junior and senior recitals, showcasing students' performance abilities.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Core Music Performance:
• MUS 080 - Concert Attendance: Required 7 times
• MUS 102 - Perspectives in Music
• MUS 111 - Theory I
• MUS 112 - Theory II
• MUS 113 - Aural Skills I
• MUS 114 - Aural Skills II
• MUS 197 - Keyboard Skills I
• MUS 198 - Keyboard Skills II
• MUS 205 - Global Music
• MUS 211 - Theory III
• MUS 212 - Theory IV
• MUS 213 - Aural Skills III
• MUS 214 - Aural Skills IV
• MUS 311 - Form and Analysis
• MUS 323 - Music Literature After 1750
• MUS 392 - Junior Recital
• MUS 491 - Seminar in Music
• MUS 492 - Senior Recital
• Counterpoint or Post-Tonal Theory (1 course)
• MUS 315 - Counterpoint
• MUS 410 - Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
• Jazz Studies:
• MUS 105 - Survey of American Music: Jazz, Folk, Blues to Pop
• MUS 361 - Jazz Theory and Improvisation I
• MUS 363 - Styles and Analysis
• MUS 365 - Jazz, Folk and Contemporary Literature and Pedagogy
• MUS 366 - Jazz Composition and Arranging I
• Jazz Electives (12 credits)
• MUS 321 - Music Literature Before 1750
• MUS 341 - Orchestration
• MUS 345 - Conducting Techniques
• MUS 362 - Jazz Theory and Improvisation II
• MUS 367 - Jazz Composition and Arranging II
• Jazz Ensembles (4 credits and 8 classes):
• Must take an ensemble each semester
• MUSE 135 - Jazz Arts Collective
• MUSE 160 - Chamber Ensembles (with title Jazz Chamber Ensemble)
• Private Instruction (24 credits):
• Any MUSA course, but all 24 credits must be taken in the same instrument