Music, B.M.: Performance Concentration (Jazz)

About the Music B.M. Program

The Bachelor of Music in Music offers four concentrations: music education, composition, performance, and theory. The concentration in music education prepares students to teach choral, instrumental, and general classroom music in kindergarten, elementary, middle, junior high, and senior high schools, with specializations in piano/keyboard, voice, brass, woodwind, percussion, and stringed instruments. The performance concentration includes specializations in piano/keyboard, voice, brass, woodwind, percussion, and stringed instruments.

Communication Literacy Requirement. Communication literacy in music is evidenced by competence in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and performing. This comprehensive approach to “musical” communication literacy is apparent in all undergraduate music degrees by matriculation and completion of our three-semester series of musicology courses (i.e. music as cultural history). There is a very distinct sequential approach to “musical” communication literacy by the orderly completion of these courses with a research paper and basic listening skills enhanced in the form of journals employed in the beginning course of the sequence, MUHL 2301  and further through the culminating course MUHL 3303 , where performance practice, critical listening, and role-playing are the hallmarks of musical integration and communication. Courses in the Communication Literacy plan are (1) MUHL 2301 , (2) MUHL 3302 , and (3) MUHL 3303 .

About the Jazz Concentration

The 4-year undergraduate Bachelor of Music (B.M.) with Jazz Concentration allows students to pursue an emphasis in jazz performance. All students enrolled in this concentration participate in lessons, ensembles, and receive comprehensive instruction in jazz and classical theory and music history. These students also complete the university’s core curriculum.

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