Music Degrees
Offered
Bachelor of Arts -
Vocal, Instrumental or Keyboard concentration
Bachelor of Arts with a Minor in Music
Education- All-level Certification
Minor in Music -Vocal,
Instrumental or Keyboard concentration
The Minor in Music can be combined
with many of McMurry's other majors and degree programs. In
addition, post-baccalaureate students can earn teacher
certification through course work offered by the Music
Department.
Requirements for music
degrees:
Entry Audition -
Each potential music major and minor must audition and be approved
by members of the Music Department faculty before he or she will be
allowed to register for music coursework. Students who transfer
from other institutions must have their previous coursework credits
evaluated by the Music Department and must audition in order that
their placement in the music program can be determined.
Juries and
Sophomore Proficiency Exam - All music majors are required to
pass a jury at the end of each semester as part of the applied
music requirement in their principal instrument or voice. The jury
will be comprised of members of the music faculty. The jury at the
end of the sophomore or fourth semester will constitute a sophomore
proficiency exam, and students must successfully pass this jury
before taking upper division applied music lessons. Specific skills
and proficiencies necessary to pass the sophomore proficiency exam
are determined by the music faculty according to the area of
applied study.
Music
Hours - These Department of Music recitals are an important
laboratory experience for applied music study. All music majors and
minors, and selected non-majors, under the direction of their
instructors, perform at Music Hours.
Piano
Proficiency - All Music Majors must complete and pass with a
grade of at least a "B" in each of a minimum of two semesters of
piano study. Additionally, these Music Majors are required to
demonstrate a piano proficiency administered incrementally at the
end of each semester of piano study. The piano proficiency
requirements determined by the Music Faculty are found in the
Department of Music Student Handbook. Applied piano lessons may be
substituted for any or all of the class piano requirements at the
discretion of the keyboard faculty. Music majors are required to
take piano each semester until their proficiency is satisfied.
Passage of the piano proficiency is a prerequisite for registration
for a senior recital.
Recitals - Students are required by their
respective degree plans to perform recitals in their junior and/or
senior years. recital and take applied lessons during the semester
of prior to student teaching, without exception.
Grade Point
Requirement - All music majors must maintain at least a 2.0
average grade point in all Music Department coursework during the
first 60 hours of study at McMurry. At the discretion of the music
faculty, music majors who fail to achieve a 2.0 average grade point
for any two consecutive semesters of applied music study in their
principal instrument or voice will be advised to pursue another
major or concentration.
Course
Substitution - If a student is given advanced placement in any
music coursework, he or she must substitute an equal number of
hours of coursework credit in the same area of music.
Requirements for the Music
Minor
Requirements for the Music
Minor include participation in performing ensembles and private
lessons. Acceptance into the Music Department as a Minor requires a
successful Entry Audition as described above. Music Minors perform
for Music Hours and other departmental recitals, and may, if the
necessary prerequisites are met, perform a junior or senior
recital.
