Music Performance: Voice, B.M.

Minimum Music Credits Required: 94.5

• MUC 001 - Performance Attendance, 0 credit hours (6 semesters)
• MUC 002 - Departmental Recital, 0 credit hours (8 semesters)
• MUC 101 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 102 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• 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 133 - Keyboard Musicianship 1, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 134 - Keyboard Musicianship 2, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 141 - Singers’ Diction and Literature 1, 2 credit hours
• MUC 142 - Singers’ Diction and Literature 2, 2 credit hours
• MUC 147 - Opera Workshop 1: Acting/ Movement/ Music 1, 1 credit hour
• MUC 148 - Opera Workshop 2: Acting/ Movement/ Music 2, 1 credit hour
• MUC 201 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 202 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 205 - Major Ensembles, 1 credit hour ³
• MUC 211 - Tonal Harmony 3, 2 credit hours
• MUC 212 - Solfège 3, 2 credit hours
• MUC 213 - Tonal Counterpoint, 2 credit hours
• MUC 221I - Music History & Literature 1: World and Medieval Music History, 3 credit hours
• MUC 223I - Music History & Literature 2 Renaissance and Baroque Music History, 3 credit hours
• MUC 233 - Keyboard Musicianship 3, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 234 - Keyboard Musicianship 4, 1 credit hour ²
• MUC 241 - Singers’ Diction and Literature 3, 2 credit hours
• MUC 242 - Singer’s Diction and Literature 4, 2 credit hours
• MUC 247 - Opera Workshop 3: Acting/ Movement/ Music 3, 1 credit hour
• MUC 248 - Opera Workshop 4: Music Theater - Dance/ Style/ Performance Technique, 1 credit hour
• MUC 291 - Conducting, 2 credit hours
• MUC 301 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 302 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 303 - Partial Junior Recital, .5 credit hour
• MUC 305X - Pedagogy of Music, 3 credit hours
• 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 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 347 - Opera Workshop 5: Scenes and Period Style - Baroque, Bel Canto and Romantic, 1 credit hour
• MUC 348 - Opera Workshop 6: Scenes and Period Style - Classical and Contemporary, 1 credit hour
• MUC 401 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 402 - Primary Instrument: Private Lessons, 2-4 credit hours ¹
• MUC 404 - Full Senior Recital, 1 credit hour
• MUC 447 - Opera Workshop 7: Advanced Audition Preparation 1, 1 credit hour
• MUC 448 - Opera Workshop 8: Advanced Audition Preparation 2 with Final Project, 1 credit hour
• Music Electives, 2 credit hours⁴

Minimum Liberal Arts Credits Required: 37

• ENG 131 - Workshop in Exposition and Argument, 3 credit hours
• MTH 135 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 3 credit hours or higher
• FYE 100 - First-Year Experience, 3 credit hours
• HPE - Wellness Courses, 2 credit hours
• Foreign Language, 16 credit hours⁵
• Liberal Arts Electives or Minor Field of Study, 10 credit hours⁶

Notes:

¹ Three credits per semester for 8 semesters.
² Secondary instrument is piano until Proficiency 4 is achieved. Depending upon placement results, piano study may occur in classes, lessons, or a combination. If the requisite proficiency is achieved in fewer than 4 semesters, continued piano study or study on another instrument is required. Secondary study beyond 4 semesters requires an additional fee.
³ One credit per semester for 8 semesters.
⁴ An Emphasis Area in music may be substituted for the music elective requirement. Students who have earned 8 credits in required ensemble may count up to 2 additional credits toward the music elective requirement. At least 2 credits of music electives must be at the 300 level or higher.
⁵ A proficiency exam is administered to determine entry level of foreign language study. Students whose language requirement is reduced may take the equivalent number of credit hours in other liberal arts courses.
⁶ 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.