Performance: Harp Emphasis

Program Overview

Performance: Harp Emphasis

Overview

Take your place in the next generation of innovative harpists. Pick a course of study that hones your practice while helping to unlock the door to professional work as a performer, educator or composer. The Bachelor of Music in Performance with a Harp emphasis invites students to study with peers from across the globe. At the Fred Fox School of Music, students enjoy close interaction with the esteemed faculty, all of whom are artists in their own right and who've performed at the world's greatest concert halls and received numerous accolades as musicians. Students can audition for the Harp Studio, which offers weekly private lessons, a studio class, the study of harp pedagogy, orchestral coaching, mock auditions and master classes with guest artists. Students can take advantage of opportunities to arrange, compose, record and tour with HarpFusion. Upon graduation, students are equipped for roles as performing artists, teachers, administrators and music scholars.

Program Details

Sample Courses

• MUS 121: Music Reading and Aural Skills I
• MUS 344: Arab and Asian Music
• MUS 431: Music in the Baroque

Career Fields

• Composition
• Education
• Film scoring
• Music therapy
• Performance

Level of Math

• General Knowledge

This strand involves the general understanding and appreciation of how mathematics is used to solve problems in everyday life. The G-strand does not prepare a student for any further work grounded in mathematics and assumes the student will not proceed beyond the basic Foundations level noted above. Thus only those students whose major requires the most general knowledge of mathematics should take this strand.

Level of Second Language

• 2nd Semester Proficiency

Second-semester skill level in a second language is required. Non-B.A. degree students may fulfill this requirement with one of the following options:

• Scoring the equivalent of second-semester skill level on an entrance or placement examination administered by The University of Arizona.
• Completion with a C or better of a second semester course at the post-secondary level.
• An AP (Advanced Placement), IB (International Baccalaureate) or CLEP (College Level Entrance Program) language score determined by the individual language department.
• In the College of Engineering by a method determined within the College; however, all students in the college must also take a language placement examination on entrance to the University.

Pre-major Required?

• No

This Major's College

• College of Fine Arts

Degree

• Bachelor of Music

Sample Plans

2025, Performance: Harp Emphasis

• 4-Year Sample Plan
• Map Transfer Coursework

First Year

1st Semester

• ENGL 101 First-Year Composition (3)
• MATH (3)
• MUSI 182 or MUSI 185 Individual Studies (4)
• MUS 200/400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUS 110A Piano Class (1)
• MUS 120A Musical Skills and Structure I (3)
• MUS 130A Introduction to Music Literature (2)
• Introduction to the General Education Experience (Entry Course) (1)

2nd Semester

• ENGL 102 First-Year Composition (3)
• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• MUSI 182 or MUSI 185 Individual Studies (4)
• MUS 200/400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUS 110B Piano Class (1)
• MUS 120B Musical Skills and Structure I (3)
• MUS 130B Introduction to Music Literature (2)

Second Year

3rd Semester

• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• MUS 210A Piano Class (1)
• MUS 220A Musical Skills and Structure II (3)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUSI 282 or MUSI 285 Individual Studies (4)
• MUS 200/400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Second Language (4)

4th Semester

• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• MUS 210B Piano Class (1)
• MUS 220B Musical Skills and Structure II (3)
• MUSI 282 or MUSI 285 Individual Studies (4)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUS 200/400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Second Language (4)

Third Year

5th Semester

• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• MUS 330A History of Western Music (3)
• MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUS 370 Introduction to Conducting (2)
• MUSI 382 or 385 Individual Studies (4)

6th Semester

• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
• MUS 330B History of Western Music (3)
• MUSI 382 or 385 Individual Studies (4)
• MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)

Fourth Year

7th Semester

• MUS 410A or 410B Pedagogy (2)
• MUS 427A Careers in Music (2)
• MUS 427B Careers in Music (2)
• MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)
• MUSI 485 Individual Studies (4)
• Music Elective (3)
• General Education Portfolio (Exit Course) (1)

8th Semester

• MUS 421 Orchestration (3)
• MUS 498 Senior Capstone: Recital (1)
• MUSI 485 Individual Studies (4)
• MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
• Coached Ensemble (1)

Program Outline

Other:

• The Bachelor of Music in Performance with a Harp emphasis invites students to study with peers from across the globe.
• At the Fred Fox School of Music, students enjoy close interaction with the esteemed faculty, all of whom are artists in their own right and who've performed at the world's greatest concert halls and received numerous accolades as musicians.
• Students can audition for the Harp Studio, which offers weekly private lessons, a studio class, the study of harp pedagogy, orchestral coaching, mock auditions and master classes with guest artists.
• Students can take advantage of opportunities to arrange, compose, record and tour with HarpFusion.
• Upon graduation, students are equipped for roles as performing artists, teachers, administrators and music scholars.