MUSAC: Applied Music Classes

For Music Performance majors in the following areas: brass instruments (euphonium, horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba); conducting; keyboard instruments (harpsichord, organ, piano); percussion; string instruments (guitar, string bass, viola, violin, violoncello); voice; and woodwind instruments (bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, saxophone).

6901*, 6902.* Performance Minor. For music education majors. Students receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly and practice one hour daily. Prereq.: Music 2606 or equivalent. 2+2 s.h.

6903*, 6904.* Performance Concentration. Music performance through individual instruction. Students receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly, practice two hours daily, and are required to attend the weekly seminars held by their individual instructors. Prereq.: Music 3706 or equivalent. 3+3 s.h.

6905*, 6906.* Performance Major. For music performance majors. Students receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly, practice three hours daily, and are required to attend the weekly seminars held by their instructors. Prereq.: Music 4806 or equivalent. 4+4 s.h.

Notes

1) Assignments of students to teachers are made by the coordinators of Keyboard, Voice, String, Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Studies. Requests for change of teacher should be addressed to the Director of the Dana School of Music.

2) Students registered for 4-semester hour courses receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly and practice three hours daily. Students registered for 3-semester hour courses receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly and practice two hours daily. Students registered for 2-semester hour courses receive 50 minutes of individual instruction weekly and practice one hour daily. Students registered for 3-semester hour and 4-semester hour courses are also required to attend the weekly seminars held by their individual instructors.

3) Students in the performance major courses 6905-6906 must present a public recital of at least 50 minutes of music. The pre-recital hearing must be held during the semester in which the student is enrolled in Music 6906. The supporting document must be completed during the semester in which the student is enrolled in Music 6905. In the event that the paper is not completed during the 6905 semester, a PR grade will be issued for the course. Further information is available from the faculty member in charge of graduate studies in music.

4) Students who fail to meet the standards of the faculty in the area of their performance study may be required to reduce the number of credit hours for which they register in subsequent semesters, or they may be required to withdraw completely from the course sequence.