Music: Theory Specialization, B.M.

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About the Music Bachelor’s Program

The Bachelor of Music in Music has four fields of specialization: music (leading toward teacher certification), composition, performance, and theory. The performance field of specialization includes concentrations in piano, organ, voice, brass, woodwind, percussion, and stringed instruments. The field of specialization in music that leads toward teacher certification replaces the former Bachelor of Music Education.

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 MUTH 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) MUTH 3303 .

Recommended Curriculum

First Year

Fall

MUAP 1001 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (2 hours required)
Applied Music, piano 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUSI 1300 - Creating the Critical Listener 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 1203 - Elementary Music Theory I 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 1103 - Elementary Aural Skills I 1 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 1301 - Essentials of College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 2300 - History of the United States to 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 17

Spring

MUAP 1002 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (2 hours required)
Applied Music, piano 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUHL 2301 - Music as Cultural History I 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 1204 - Elementary Music Theory II 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 1104 - Elementary Aural Skills II 1 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 1302 - Advanced College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 2301 - History of the United States since 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 17

Second Year

Fall

MUAP 2001 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (2 hours required)
Applied Music, piano 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUHL 3302 - Music as Cultural History II 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 2203 - Intermediate Music Theory I 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 2103 - Intermediate Aural Skills I 1 Semester Credit Hours
Foreign Language 3 Semester Credit Hours
Mathematics 3 Semester Credit Hours *
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 17

Spring

MUAP 2002 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (2 hours required)
MUHL 3303 - Music as Cultural History III 3 Semester Credit Hours
Foreign Language 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 2204 - Intermediate Music Theory II 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 2104 - Intermediate Aural Skills II 1 Semester Credit Hours
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours
MUSI 3341 - Introduction to Technology for Musicians 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Third Year

Continuance in music theory requires a formal review and approval of all freshman and sophomore work. The principal criteria are completion of all academic requirements through the sophomore year and a grade average in music theory courses of no less than a B.

Fall

MUAP 3001 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (2 hours required)
MUTH 3303 - Form, Analysis, and Synthesis 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUCP 4207 - Instrumentation 2 Semester Credit Hours
Oral Communication 3 Semester Credit Hours *
Language, Philosophy, and Culture 3 Semester Credit Hours *
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours
Mathematics 3 Semester Credit Hours *

Total: 17

Spring

MUAP 3002 - Applied Music V1-4 Semester Credit Hours (1 hour required)
MUAP 3190 - Junior Recital 1 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 4316 - 20th-Century Analysis Techniques 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUCP 4208 - Orchestration 2 Semester Credit Hours
MUAP 3206 - Conducting 2 Semester Credit Hours
Life and Physical Sciences 4 Semester Credit Hours *
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 14

Fourth Year

Fall

MUTH 4305 - Modal Counterpoint 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUHL 4300 - Special Topics in Music History and Literature 3 Semester Credit Hours
Life and Physical Sciences 4 Semester Credit Hours *
POLS 1301 - American Government 3 Semester Credit Hours
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 14

Spring

MUHL Elective 3 Semester Credit Hours
MUTH 4307 - Tonal Counterpoint and Fugue 3 Semester Credit Hours
Social & Behavioral Science 3 Semester Credit Hours *
POLS 2306 - Texas Politics and Topics 3 Semester Credit Hours
Ensemble 1 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 13

Total Hours: 124

* Choose from the university’s core curriculum .

Foreign Language

The student must complete six hours of a language approved by the division at the sophomore level.