Bachelor of Arts in Music

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Learning Outcome

Our graduates possess critical listening skills and are able to identify and analyze by ear and at a high level of detail a variety of different musical styles, both Western and non-Western, from classical, popular, and folk music.

Learning Outcome

Our graduates are proficienct in musical notation and score reading and can both perform and deeply analyze musical structures and styles of the West from their notation and scores.

Learning Outcome

Our graduates possess discipline-specific critical reading, writing, and analytic skills, i.e., the ability to understand, analyze, and critique complex and specialized written texts - primary and secondary sourced - about music, its historical eras, and key genres.

Learning Outcome

Our graduates possess critical discursive skills, i.e., the ability to articulate ideas, structures, and organizational components - with accurate use of specialized music vocabulary- in both writing and speech about music with the further ability to express tastes and opinions about a wide range of musical repertory with reference to specific musical detail.

Learning Outcome

Our graduates possess performance skills, with regular public performance in large ensembles and/or in solo and small ensemble settings, with substantial improvement in performance skills on one or more instruments, with an emphasis on improved performance proficiency from notated scores.