Music in Performance
Bachelor of Music in Music in Performance
Music degree options: Music Education | Classical Performance | Jazz Studies
Program map
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- Get a check sheet and begin tracking your graduation progress
- Regularly attend performances by music professionals in the area
- Envision and conceptualize your professional career
- Pass your audition at the end of your 2nd semester (performance majors only)
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Begin researching graduate school
- Find a student and faculty mentor
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Visit graduate schools
- Participate in a master class with a non-CSU faculty member or other music professional
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Visit graduate schools and take a lesson with one or more principal applied faculty
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- Complete university's graduate survey
- Consider performing for the Alumni Concert during Homecoming
- Maintain contact with principal applied faculty member for networking and recommendations
Minimum credit hours needed to obtain a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance: 120
BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE — ENG 1100 or 1101, 1102; MTH 1550; HIS 1110 or HIS 1121 or HIS 1122; three credit hours from List B, Humanities; three credit hours from List C, Health and Social Sciences; three credit hours from List D, Natural and Physical Sciences; USS 1000, one credit from HHP 1101-1121. All students must take MUS 1101, 1102, 1151, 1152, 2201, 2202, 2251, 2252, 3341, 3342, or 3343, 3381, 3382, 3386, 3397, 4341, 4342, 4400, 4497; 24 credit hours in principal applied; 12 credit hours in ensembles; and eight semesters of MUS 1000.
In addition, vocalists must take MUS 3303, MUS 3305, and MUS 4410. Piano majors must take four credits of accompanying class or secondary applied instead of piano class. Instrumental majors must take 10 credits of electives, and vocal majors must take four credits of electives. A grade of “C” or better is required in all music courses. A grade of “B” or better is required in Principal Applied courses and ensembles.
A grade of "C" or better is required in all MUS courses.
A grade of "B" or better is required in all Principal Applied courses.
*Applies to Vocal majors only
^In lieu of the Class Piano sequence (MUS 1151, 1152, 2251, 2252), Piano majors must take four credits of accompanying or secondary applied courses.