/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog-local.json
/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog.json
Music (B.A.) with Commercial Music Concentration
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Music program can:
- Analyze a significant work of music, employing relevant concepts of phrasal, harmonic and structural analysis.
- Research a subject in the history of music by employing the major resources of music research, and engaging with those sources to create and support a scholarly argument.
- Demonstrate proficiency on a major instrument (or voice).
- Articulate an awareness of various career and graduate school options in music.
- Articulate a post-graduation plan based on a demonstrated awareness of their own interests and gifts.
- Demonstrate mature reflection on their own faith as it informs their work as musicians and their career choices.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
MUMH 304: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.
Music Ensemble: Required distribution of MUEN credits dependent on performance area.
Eight credits of the following:
One or three credits from the following:
AND 7 or 5 credits of MUAP electives (7 or 5)
Commercial Concentration (12 credits)
Twelve (12) hours from the following:
ARTM 401 | Arts Management | 3 |
MUAP 167 | Jazz Improvisation | 1-4 |
MUCM 351 | Electronic Music and MIDI | 3 |
MUGE 223 | Jazz Improvisation | 3 |
| One semester at Contemporary Music Center, artist or business track | 12 |
One of the following options:
A. Option 1 (12 credits)
One semester (12 credits) at the Contemporary Music Center in the artist, business, or technical track.
B. Option 2 (12 credits)
Distributed as follows:
Three to four credits from the following courses:
Three credits from the following:
Five credits from the following:
MUCM 353 | Sound Design | 3 |
INTE 391 | Internship | 1-3 |
ARTM 401 | Arts Management | 3 |
MUEN xxx
| Music Ensemble electives | |
MUAP xxx
| Applied Music electives | |
For the concentration, the following MUEN are recommended: 114, 134, 138, 141, 142, and 148 and the following MUAP are recommended: 158, 166, 167, 168, 173, 181.
Courses taken for one requirement may not be counted towards another requirement in the major.
All music majors will register for Keyboard I in order to prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam. Students who successfully pass the exam at the end of the Fall Semester will fulfill the other keyboard credit with any music course. Students who do not pass (or attempt) the exam in the fall will register for Keyboard II in the Spring Semester. Students who do not pass the exam at the end of the Spring Semester will register for MUAP Piano lessons until the exam is passed. Students are allowed three attempts to pass the exam.
QuEST Requirements
Experiential Learning requirement |
0 |
QuEST requirements |
Credits |
First Year Seminar |
3 |
Oral Communication |
3 |
Created and Called for Community (W) |
3 |
Mathematical Sciences |
3-4 |
Laboratory Science |
3-4 |
Science, Technology & the World |
3 |
Two of the following: Social Science, European or United States History |
6 |
Literature |
3 |
Philosophy and Religion |
3 |
Arts |
waived |
First Semester of Language |
3 |
Second Semester of Language |
3 |
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural |
3 |
Non-Western Studies (MUMH 338) |
met/major |
Bible |
3 |
Christian Beliefs |
3 |
Wellness course |
1 |
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism |
3 |
QuEST requirements |
46-48 |
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) |
56 |
Free electives |
21-19 |
Total credits |
123 |