Instrumental Music, BMUS

The Language Requirement may be satisfied by successfully completing a third-semester college-level course in a language other than English; successful completion, in high school, of the third year of a language other than English; or demonstrating proficiency at the third-semester level in a language proficiency examination approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the appropriate department.

Six hours of general education requirements in the Humanities and the Arts are met by courses required in the BMUS degree (MUS 313 and MUS 314).

Completion of both MUS 313 and MUS 314 meets the general education Humanities and the Arts requirement.

String majors will register for four semester hours of applied music in the first year; thereafter, string majors will register for three semester hours of applied music and one semester hour of MUS 267 in the second, third, and fourth years. Brass majors will register for three semesters hours of applied music and one semester hour of MUS 267 each semester for all four years.  All other instrumental majors register for four semester hours of applied music each semester.

Concurrent registration in MUS 250 is required for all students who register for any of MUS 183-MUS 186 and MUS 483-MUS 486.

Keyboard majors are required to complete only 6 hours of minor applied music.

All music majors are required to participate in an approved ensemble every semester in residence. All string majors must audition for the orchestras at the beginning of each fall. For a complete list of approved ensembles, please refer to the Undergraduate Music Handbook.

All students must demonstrate keyboard competency by examination when they matriculate or by enrolling in MUS 172 and/or MUS 173.  Keyboard performance majors demonstrate keyboard competency by successfully completing MUS 454.