Students majoring in Music should be able to:
- Develop physical coordination and technical skills required for specific musical activities (conducting, singing, instrumental performance)
- Apply essential principles of music theory and form to the study and evaluation of musical scores (critical skills)
- Display familiarity with musical notation in performance and original composition (creative skills)
Students majoring in Music should know:
- The historical evolution of Western music as evidenced by style periods, performance practices, and representative composers and their works
- The varieties of music as a cultural phenomenon seen in its interrelationship with belief systems, life-ways, and language
Students majoring in Music are presented with the opportunity to value:
- The power of music as an expression and reflection of human emotion and responsiveness
- The experience of aesthetic engagement that allows for deep identification with music
- The synthesis of perspectives— physical, technical, analytical, historical—that leads to a cultured musical sensibility and artistic performance