Music Performance (B.M.)

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Music Performance program can:

  1. Analyze a significant work of music, employing relevant concepts of phrasal, harmonic and structural analysis.
  2. 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.
  3. Demonstrate proficiency on a major instrument (or voice) ) at a level appropriate to a student entering graduate school with a major in music performance.

  4. Demonstrate an awareness of options for employment and/or graduate level education in the field of music performance and reflect on suitability for a career in music performance.

  5. 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:

MUAP xxx
Applied Music (4 hrs./semester)

32
MUEN xxx
Music Ensembles

8
Junior Recital (solo preferred; joint by faculty permission)

0
Senior Recital (solo only)

0

One credit of MUED 140 is required for all music majors except voice. Voice student are required to take MUED 240 Diction for Singers (1) instead of MUED 140.

Music Ensembles: Required distribution of MUEN credits dependent on performance area.

One of the following:

MUSI 343Piano Pedagogy

3
MUSI 344Instrumental Pedagogy

3
MUSI 452Vocal Pedagogy

3

Supportive Courses in Music

MUED 140Voice Class

1
OR
MUED 240Diction for Singers

1
 
MUED 251Conducting I: Fundamentals

2
 
MUED 351Conducting II: Choral

2
OR
MUED 352Conducting II: Instrumental

2
 
MUMH 303History of Music I

2
MUMH 304History of Music II

3
MUMH 305History of Music III

3
MUMH 338Studies in Global Music

2
MUTH 101Music Theory I

3
MUTH 102Music Theory II

3
MUTH 107Sight Singing & Ear Training I

1
MUTH 108Sight Singing & Ear Trng II

1
MUTH 109Keyboard I

1
MUTH 110Keyboard II

1
MUTH 201Music Theory III

3
MUTH 202Music Theory IV

3
MUTH 207Sight Singing & Ear Trng. III

1
MUSI 001Concert Attendance

0
MUSI 261Music Entrepreneurship

1
MUSI 481Senior Seminar in Music

1
Piano Proficiency Exam

0

MUMH 304: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.

One of the following:

MUSI 301Vocal Literature

1
MUSI 302Instrumental Literature

1
MUSI 303Piano Literature

1

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 Seminar3
Oral Communication3
Created and Called for Community (W)3
Mathematical Sciences 3-4
Laboratory Science 3-4
Science, Technology & the World3
Social Science or United States History3
European History (MUMH 303, MUMH 304, or MUMH 305)waived
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts waived
First Semester of Language3
Second Semester of Language 3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural3
Non-Western Studies (MUMH 338)met/major
Bible3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements46-48
Major requirements78
Total credits 124-126