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Areas of Emphasis

Select any area for information regarding courses, audition procedures, repertoire, etc.

Within the Bachelor of Music Degree, there are three concentrations: composition, performance, and electro-acoustic music. In the performance concentration, a student can have a keyboard, voice, or instrumental emphasis.

No specific concentrations exist in the Bachelor of Arts degree. Instead, a student can design a contract with an emphasis in one of several areas: performance in voice, keyboard or non-keyboard instruments, improvised music studies/jazz, music history and literature, music education, choral conducting, musical arts, composition, music production and more. Various curricular areas are listed below.

Brass
Choral
Composition
Jazz Studies
Keyboard
Music Education
Music Technology
Musical Theater (Minor degree through the Theater Arts Dept.)
Music Systems (Formerly: Music Theory)
Percussion
Strings
Voice
Woodwinds


Page updated 10/11/2005.








 

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