Music History-Scholarship and Research Emphasis, B.Mus.

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US 150 First Year Success Seminar

All incoming new students will be registered for US 150 - First Year Success Seminar during the first semester of the first year. The credit earned for this course does not count toward the completion of the degree.

Required Credits: 122

^{(see note 4 below)}

First Year

Semester 1 (16 credits)

APC 122 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 111 - Diatonic Harmony 2 credit(s) ²
TH 120P - Elementary Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
WRT 110W - Academic Writing I 3 credit(s)
HLM 020 - Information Literacy in the Performing Arts 0 credit(s)
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)
Foreign language 3 credit(s) ³
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16 credits)

APC 123 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 112 - Chromatic Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 121P - Elementary Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
WRT 111W - Academic Writing II 3 credit(s)
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)
Foreign language 3 credit(s)³
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Second Year

Semester 1 (16 credits)

APC 222 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 210 - Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 220P - Intermediate Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
HLM 212 - Perspectives on Music History 3 credit(s)
HIS - History elective 3 credit(s)
Foreign language 3 credit(s) ³
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16 credits)

APC 223 - Piano Keyboard Class 2 credit(s) ¹
TH 211W - Post-Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 221P - Intermediate Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
HLM 213 - Classicism to the Present 3 credit(s)
HIS - History elective 3 credit(s)
Foreign language 3 credit(s) ³
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Third Year

Semester 1 (15 credits)

Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
ISC 499 - Studio/Technique Class Lab 0-1 credit(s) (0 credits required)
HLM 316 - Medieval through Baroque 3 credit(s)
TH 420 - Modal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
Music literature course 3 credit(s) ⁵
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16 credits)

Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
ISC 499 - Studio/Technique Class Lab 0-1 credit(s) (0 credits required)
TH 332 - Continuo Realization 1 credit(s)
TH 421 - Tonal Counterpoint 3 credit(s)
Academic elective 3 credit(s)
HLM - Advanced music history course 3 credit(s)
UIS - University Interdisciplinary Studies 3 credit(s)
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Fourth Year

Semester 1 (12 credits)

Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
ISC 499 - Studio/Technique Class Lab 0-1 credit(s) (0 credits required)
Advance music history course 3 credit(s)
Advance music history course 3 credit(s)
Academic elective 3 credit(s)
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (14 credits)

Instrumental/vocal study 2 credit(s)
ISC 499 - Studio/Technique Class Lab 0-1 credit(s) (0 credits required)
TE 410W - Senior Project/Essay 1-3 credit(s) (2 credits required)
HLM - Advanced music history course 3 credit(s)
HLM - Advanced music history course 3 credit(s)
M - Mathematics elective 3 credit(s)
Collegium Musicum, Early Music Ensemble, or other performing organization 1 credit(s)

Note(s):

¹Exempted students take private instrumental/vocal study.

²Enrollment dependent on placement exam.

³Language should include two years of college-level German or equivalent. French is recommended as a second language.

⁴Music history majors are required to register for four semesters of HLM 464 (Fall) and/or HLM 465 (Spring), Music History Forum, for 0.25 credits each (a total of one credit added to their program requirements). This obligation can be met in any semester in which the student has sufficient credit room; regardless of semester, students will never be faced with an overload.

⁵This course should consist of an HLM, TH, or AFR course.

Music history majors are required to earn a minimum grade of B- in all major (HLM) courses.