Program Overview

Performance: Bassoon Emphasis

Overview

Develop your bassoon musicianship while gaining the practical skills needed for a successful career in music. At the Fred Fox School of Music, internationally regarded in music instruction, students earning the Bachelor of Music in Performance with a Bassoon emphasis benefit from individualized lessons and personal attention tailored to their unique needs and career goals. Students can audition for the Bassoon Studio, where they'll partake in weekly lessons and studio classes, guest-artist master classes, performance opportunities, and clinician-led workshops in orchestral repertoire, entrepreneurship, and even performance anxiety. While learning from a faculty comprising renowned artists, performers, and scholars, students enjoy access to a state-of-the-art recording studio, a visiting composer series, and the Arizona Contemporary Ensemble.

Program Details

Sample Courses

• MUS 130A: Music Literature
• MUS 370: Introduction to Conducting
• MUS 452: Band Techniques

Career Fields

• Band directing
• Conducting
• Education
• Music promotion
• 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: Bassoon Emphasis

• 4-Year Sample Plan
• Map Transfer Coursework

First Year

• 1st Semester
  • ENGL 101 First-Year Composition (3)
  • MATH (3)
  • MUS 200 Large Ensemble (1)
  • MUSI 185 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 110A Piano Class (1)
  • MUS 120A Musical Skills and Structure I (3)
  • MUS 130A Introduction to Music Literature (2)
• 2nd Semester
  • ENGL 102 First-Year Composition (3)
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • MUSI 185 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 110B Piano Class (1)
  • MUS 120B Musical Skills and Structure I (3)
  • MUS 200 Large Ensemble (1)
  • 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)
  • MUS 201 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • MUSI 285 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 200 Large Ensemble (1)
  • Second Language (4)
• 4th Semester
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • MUS 220B Musical Skills and Structure II (3)
  • MUS 200 Large Ensemble (1)
  • MUSI 285 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 201 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • MUS 210B Piano Class (1)
  • Second Language (4)

Third Year

• 5th Semester
  • MUS 330A History of Western Music (3)
  • MUS 401 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
  • MUS 370 Introduction to Conducting (2)
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • MUSI 385 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 427A Careers in Music (2)
• 6th Semester
  • MUS 330B History of Western Music (3)
  • MUSI 385 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
  • MUS 401 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • MUS 427B Careers in Music (2)

Fourth Year

• 7th Semester
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • MUS 410A OR 410B Pedagogy (2)
  • MUS 401 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • MUSI 485 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)
  • Music Elective (3)
• 8th Semester
  • GE Core: Exploring Perspectives or Building Connections (3)
  • Music Elective (2)
  • MUS 498 Senior Capstone: Recital (1)
  • MUS 421 Orchestration (3)
  • MUSI 485 Individual Studies (4)
  • MUS 401 Coached Ensemble (1)
  • MUS 400 Large Ensemble (1)