Music Theatre Direction, B.M.

Minimum Music Credits Required: 101.5

• MUC 001 - Performance Attendance, 0 credit hours (6 semesters)
• MUC 002 - Departmental Recital, 0 credit hours (8 semesters)
• MUC 101 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 102 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 110 - Music Technology and Notation, 1 credit hour
• MUC 111 - Tonal Harmony 1, 2 credit hours
• MUC 113 - Tonal Harmony 2, 2 credit hours
• MUC 112 - Solfège/Eurhythmics 1, 2 credit hours
• MUC 114 - Solfège/Eurhythmics 2, 2 credit hours
• MUC 131 - Secondary Instrument Levels 1, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 132 - Secondary Instrument Levels 2, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 140 - Singers’ Phonetics, 1 credit hour
• MUC 145 - Music Theatre Workshop 1: Core Acting Skills, 1 credit hour
• MUC 146 - Music Theatre Workshop 2: Scene to Song; Freshman Showcase, 1 credit hour
• MUC 181 - Sight-reading 1, 1 credit hour
• MUC 182 - Sight-reading 2, 1 credit hour
• MUC 201 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 202 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 205 - Major Ensembles, 1 credit hour (6 semesters) ³
• MUC 211 - Tonal Harmony 3, 2 credit hours
• MUC 212 - Solfège 3, 2 credit hours
• MUC 225 - Music Theatre History, 3 credit hours
• MUC 231 - Secondary Instrument Levels 3, 1 credit hour
• MUC 232 - Secondary Instrument Levels 4, 1 credit hour
• MUC 236 - Jazz Piano Skills, 1 credit hour
• MUC 246X - Music Theatre Workshop 4: Audition Techniques, 1 credit hour
• MUC 283 - Collaborative Piano, 1 credit hour (2 semesters)
• MUC 291 - Conducting, 2 credit hours
• MUC 292 - Advanced Conducting, 2 credit hours
• MUC 301 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 302 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 303 - Partial Junior Recital, .5 credit hour ⁵
• MUC 309 - Entrepreneurship and Advocacy, 1 credit hour
• MUC 311 - Form and Analysis, 2 credit hours
• MUC 313 - Theory of Music Since 1900, 2 credit hours
• MUC 314 - Solfège 4, 2 credit hours
• MUC 318 - Instrumentation and Orchestration, 2 credit hours
• MUC 319 - Advanced Orchestration, 2 credit hours
• MUC 321I - Music History & Literature 3: Music of the Classical and the Romantic Eras, 3 credit hours
• MUC 323I - Music History & Literature 4: Music Since 1900, 3 credit hours
• MUC 345 - Music Theatre Workshop 5: Golden Age of Music Theatre, 1 credit hour ⁹
• MUC 401 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 402 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons , 3 credit hours¹
• MUC 404 - Full Senior Recital, 1 credit hour ⁶
• MUC 445 - Music Theatre Workshop 7: Music Theatre Senior Boot Camp, 1 credit hour
• MUC 446 - Music Theatre Workshop 8: Music Theatre Showcase, 1 credit hour ¹⁰
• MUC 493 - Conducting Apprenticeship, 1 credit hour (7 semesters) ⁷
• Music Electives, 10 credit hours ⁴
• Internship in Dance Accompanying, 1 credit hour (2 semesters) ⁸

 

Minimum Liberal Arts Credits Required: 29

• ENG 131 - Workshop in Exposition and Argument, 3 credit hours
• MTH 101 - Mathematics Modeling & Quantitative Analysis, 3 credit hours or higher
• FYE 100 - First-Year Experience, 3 credit hours
• HPE - Wellness Courses, 2 credit hours
• Foreign Language, 8 credit hours ¹¹
• Liberal Arts Electives or Minor Field of Study, 10 credit hours ¹²

Notes:

¹ Three credits per semester for 8 semesters. Primary instrument is Piano.
² Secondary instrument for Music Directors will be voice for at least one year. Secondary study beyond four semesters requires an additional fee.

³ One credit per semester for 6 semesters. May be taken as elective in additional semesters. A minimum of four semesters will be in a choral ensemble.
⁴ An Emphasis Area in music may be substituted for the music elective requirement. Students who have earned six credits in required ensemble may count up to two additional credits toward the music elective requirement.

⁵The Partial Junior Recital will be a minimum of 30 minutes classical repertoire, memorized.

⁶The Senior Recital will consist of playing for a minimum of one Senior Music Theatre Recital.

⁷The Studio Teacher and Conducing Apprentice Teacher serve as advocates for the students in determining the appropriate load of accompanying, playing and music directing responsibilities assigned each semester.

⁸One internship credit must be in a Ballet class the second may be of the student’s choice.

⁹ To register for MUC 345 Music Theatre Workshop 5: Golden Age of Music Theatre , students must have earned a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher in all MUC courses. Failure to do so will render students ineligible to continue in the Music Theatre program.

¹⁰ To register from MUC 446 Music Theatre Workshop 8: Music Theatre Showcase , student must have 18 credit hours or less remaining to graduate (assuming successful completion of current semester coursework). Any credits earned off campus to satisfy remaining academic requirements must transfer before registering for MUC 446 . Only students registered for MUC 446  will be permitted to participate in the BW New York Music Theatre Showcase.

¹¹A proficiency exam is administered to determine entry level of foreign language study.
¹² See Bachelor of Arts & Sciences Core  for more information about Core requirements. Note that specific University core requirements for Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and a minor field of study do not apply to Bachelor of Music degree programs. Students may select to either take ten credits from any areas of the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and/or Social Sciences, or to complete a minor field of study outside of the Conservatory. Minor field of study must be other than music, theatre, or dance.