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Apr 25, 2024
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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Music, B.A.
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Music
615-898-2469
Jennifer Vannatta-Hall
Jennier.Vannatta-Hall@mtsu.edu
The Bachelor of Arts in Music offers Music majors the opportunity to pursue a degree more oriented toward music literature than performance.
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Jury Examinations
All music majors and minors are required to participate in jury examinations in their primary performing areas. Non-music majors registered for private lessons may be required to perform a jury examination at the discretion of the instructor. Jury examinations are held to measure the student’s progress at the conclusion of each semester. Those students who have presented and passed their senior recitals during the semester may be excused from jury examinations.
Undergraduate Music majors must pass a upper-division jury to qualify for applied music study at the MUAP 3000 or 4000 level. A Music major must take his or her upper-division jury no later than the end of the sixth semester and if not passing must take an upper-division jury again the next semester. A third attempt must be accompanied by extraordinary circumstances and must carry the approval of the studio teacher and director of the School of Music. The upper-division jury is not required for the B.A. in Music although it may be required by the capstone advisor.
Class Piano/Theory and Aural Skills
All undergraduate music majors (except keyboard principals) must take class piano every semester as indicated on the advising check sheets until the required piano proficiency exam is successfully completed. Concurrent enrollment in Class Piano I and Theory and Aural Skills I is required, with the following exceptions: (1) The student successfully passed either Class Piano I or Theory and Aural Skills I, but not both, or (2) the student successfully passed one or more levels of Class Piano by examination. Students should see their advisors for details.
Students wishing to continue piano after successfully completing the required class piano sequence may audition for piano applied lessons.
Keyboard principals must take MUS 2550, Keyboard Skills for Pianists I, and MUS 2560, Keyboard Skills for Pianists II, in lieu of class piano.
Academic Map
Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:
Music, B.A., Academic Map
Degree Requirements
| General Education |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
50 hours |
| Major Core |
26 hours |
| Music Performance/Area of Emphasis |
24 hours |
| Minor |
15 hours |
| Foreign Language |
6-12 hours |
| Electives |
2-8 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
General Education (41 hours)
General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.
Major Requirements (50 hours)
Music Core (26 hours)
All music majors must take class piano or private piano instruction until they pass the piano proficiency examination prescribed by their degree programs. Students should see their advisors for details.
Students must earn a grade of C- or higher in MUTH 1110 , MUTH 1120 , MUTH 2110 , MUTH 2120 (music theory sequence) and MUHL 1610 , MUHL 3010 , MUHL 3020 (music history sequence).
Music Performance and Area of Emphasis (24 hours)
Minor (15 hours)
- Taken outside School of Music
Foreign Language (6-12 hours)
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