Vocal Performance, Bachelor of Music

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the program in Vocal Performance will be able to:

1. Demonstrate essential competencies in musicianship skills in written theory, aural skills, and keyboard musicianship.
2. Develop applied music skills in one primary performance area in both solo and ensemble settings.
3. Become conversant with the essential outlines of music history, music literature, and an awareness of significant non-western musical styles.
4. Develop and articulate a clear application of the concepts of calling, role, path and purpose as they apply to the field of the music discipline.
5. Demonstrate essential knowledge of the literature and pedagogy of the principal performing area.
6. Develop substantially more advanced applied music skills in a principal performance area.

Core Curriculum

(Required of all Music majors)

Requirements

The following courses are required in addition to the Core Curriculum indicated above:

• MUA 1001 - Recital Attendance - 4 semesters (0)
• MUA 2050 - Diction for Singers I (1)
• MUA 2051 - Diction for Singers II (1)
• MUA 2055 - Private Voice (1-2) (4 units required)
• MUA 3055 - Private Voice (1-2) (4 units required)
• MUA 4055 - Private Voice (1-2) (4 units required)
• MUA 3012 - Choral Conducting and Literature (2)
• MUA 3076 - Junior Recital (0)
• MUA 4076 - Senior Recital (0)
• MUE 3010 - Vocal Pedagogy (2)
• MUE 4051 - Internship in Music (2)
• MUH 3009 - Vocal Literature I (2)
• MUH 3033 - Music History and Literature III (2)
• Upper-division Theory (6)
• One-unit Ensembles (4)
• Music Electives (8)

Total: Units 47

Note(s):

Vocal Performance majors must complete their General Education language requirement in French or German. Approved transfer courses in Italian will also fulfill this requirement.

Transfer students and PLNU students changing their major to Music in the BMUS degree must complete one ensemble and two units of applied music each semester.