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MUSIC
AT MILLIGAN
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The music curriculum at Milligan seeks to produce life-long learners and lovers of music, as well as accomplished performers and avid music consumers. The primary goal of the Music Area is to produce well-trained musicians who enjoy music and music making while also viewing music as a way to enhance and improve the quality of life. The music curriculum requires a core of music courses and an emphasis in either performance or jazz studies. Students who select this major may wish to teach music privately in a studio, pursue a college teaching career, or a performing career. On completion of the Music performance or jazz major, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental elements of music, the ability to understand, communicate, and perform in a variety of styles, and a synthesis of musical learning. Completion of a foreign language through the intermediate level is required. This degree is not a substitute for a music education degree. A student may declare a fine arts major with an emphasis in music. For further information on this major, refer to the information in the catalog under the listing of Fine Arts.
Applied music study for the music major and minor may be in voice piano, organ, guitar, brass, woodwinds, strings, or percussion. Either the principal or the secondary applied area for the music major and minor must be piano, unless a proficiency (MUSC 207) in piano is demonstrated (for the major) and be satisfied by class instruction (MUSC 101, 102 - Piano as a Secondary Concentration) unless it is the judgment of the piano faculty that a student's substantial background in piano warrants private lessons (MUSC 104 - Applied Study-Piano( (for the minor). All music majors whose principal instrument is piano must enroll in one semester of organ study. Each
semester of their applied study, music majors and minors
take a jury in their principal applied area, unless they have completed
a junior or senior recital after mid-term. Music majors also take a jury
in their secondary area each semester of their applied study, unless
their secondary instrument is piano. Students with piano as their secondary
concentration take MUSC 207-Piano Proficiency when the professor deems
the student prepared.
Preparation for the proficiency will be developed through class
instruction (MUSC 101, 102, 201 - Piano as a Secondary Concentration)
unless it is the judgment of the piano faculty that a student's
substantial background in piano warrants private lessons (MUSC 104 -
Applied Study-Piano).
Music majors must
participate in a primary ensemble which uses their particular applied
study skill and is approved by their applied professor for six semester hours.
Music minors must
participate in a primary ensemble which uses their particular applied
study skill and is approved by their applied professor for four semester hours. Primary Ensembles: Concert Choir, Women's Chorale, Jazz Ensemble, Civic
Band, and Orchestra) Concert and recital attendance is required of the music major
for eight semesters, and of the minor for four semesters. Failure to meet all recital attendance requirements results in
a half a letter grade (5 points) reduction in every music class final average for the semester.
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What is your vocation? Students who select the Music major may wish to teach music privately in a studio, pursue a college teaching career, or a performing career. |