Organ, B.Mus.

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Required Credits: 135.5

First Year

Semester 1 (18 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
Piano 2 credit(s) ¹
CHU 112 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
TH 111 - Diatonic Harmony 2 credit(s) ²
TH 120 - Elementary Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
RPW 110 - Rhetoric and Writing I 3 credit(s)
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
HLM 020 - Information Literacy in the Performing Arts 0 credit(s)
MUS 110 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (18 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
Piano 2 credit(s) ¹
CHU 113 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
TH 112 - Chromatic Harmony 2 credit(s)
TH 121 - Elementary Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
RPW 111 - Rhetoric and Writing II 3 credit(s)
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
MUS 111 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Second Year

Semester 1 (17 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
CHU 112 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
HLM 212 - Perspectives on Music History 3 credit(s)
MEA 101 - Voice Class 1 credit(s)
TH 210 - Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 220 - Intermediate Ear Training I 2 credit(s)
GER 110 - Elementary German I 3 credit(s) ³
MUS 110 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
CHU 113 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
HLM 213 - Classicism to the Present 3 credit(s)
TH 211 - Post-Tonal Form and Analysis 2 credit(s)
TH 221 - Intermediate Ear Training II 2 credit(s)
GER 111 - Elementary German II 3 credit(s) ³
MUS 111 - Paranov Performance Hour 0.5 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Third Year

Semester 1 (16.5 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
CHU 112 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
HLM 316 - Medieval through Baroque 3 credit(s)
COM 340 - Orchestration 3 credit(s)
TH 330 - Keyboard Harmony 2 credit(s)
CHU - Liturgical music courses 2 credit(s)
APC 423 - Building a Music Career 1 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (18 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
APC 420 - Communicating with an Audience 1 credit(s)
CHU 113 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
CON 314 - Conducting Fundamentals 2 credit(s)
Music history elective 3 credit(s)
TH 331 - Keyboard Improvisation 1.5 credit(s)
CHU - Liturgical music courses 2 credit(s)
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Fourth Year

Semester 1 (15.5 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
CHU 112 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
TH 333 - Score Reading 2 credit(s)
CHU - Liturgical music courses 2 credit(s)
Academic electives (including philosophy or religion course) 6 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)

Semester 2 (16.5 credits)

AOR 499 - Instrumental Study 4 credit(s)
CHU 113 - Organ Performance Class 0.5 credit(s)
CHU - Liturgical music courses 2 credit(s)
Academic electives (including philosophy or religion course) 3 credit(s)
AUC - All-University Curriculum 3 credit(s)
Mathematics elective 3 credit(s)
CPO - Choral performing organization 1 credit(s)
REC 440 - Recital 0–2 credit(s) (0 credit(s) required)

Note(s):

¹A piano proficiency exam is taken at the end of the first year. Further required study is taken with additional charge. Harpsichord may be substituted for piano with approval of the department chair.

²Enrollment dependent on placement exam.

³Further study in German or a second foreign language is encouraged.

The Instrumental Studies Division requires a grade of B– or higher in all studio work.