Secondary Major Keyboard Music Performance

Requirements for a Secondary Major in Keyboard Music Performance

Requirements
Thirty-five semester hours including:
Undergraduate Applied Music in Emphasis Area8
Advanced Undergraduate Applied Music in Emphasis Area10
Large Ensemble2
Secondary Ensemble or Applied Music 14
Select eight hours from the following: 28
Theory I
Musicianship I
Theory II
Musicianship II
MUS 3315Survey of Music Literature3
MUS 1001Recital Attendance0
MUS 40**Full Solo Recital (pass/fail; zero credit)0
Total Hours35
1

Studio Accompanying; Piano Ensemble (for students whose emphasis area is organ substitute MUS 2113 Introduction to Harmonization, Transposition & Modulation at the Organ and Piano); Chamber Music.  Up to two hours may be secondary study on another keyboard instrument.

2

Theory placement exam required.  If a student wishes to use transfer credit or credit by exam for these courses, the student must take the next courses in the theory and musicianship sequence to total 8 credit hours in Theory/Musicianship earned at Baylor.

Admission to a secondary major in Keyboard Music Performance is by audition only, and students must enter this program before earning 45 credit hours at Baylor.  This major is available only for keyboard instruments.  All hours of applied music in the emphasis area must be taken in the same instrument.