This is a professional degree and is designed to better prepare undergraduate vocal music majors to meet the entrance requirements for graduate schools, schools of music, and conservatories, or to teach studio voice.
Students who complete the B.M. in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy will be proficient in the following student learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate through teaching practicum the understanding of the breath cycle, phonation, the vocal tract, and vocal health to a party inexperienced in the art of singing
- Demonstrate the ability to pronounce English, German, French, Italian, and Latin with correct phonemes
- Demonstrate knowledge of operatic literature for beginning voice students with appropriate libretto and character study
- Demonstrate ability of teaching private lessons though a supervised practicum
- Demonstrate an understanding of representative composers, poets, and works, with extensive listening and performing in class
Music Core Curriculum
Item #
Title
Hours
2
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3
2
Sub-Total Hours
55
MU 211 and MU 212 must be taken concurrently with MU 217 and MU 218
MU 311 and MU 312 must be taken concurrently with MU 317 and MU 318
Major Requirements
Item #
Title
Hours
Sub-Total Hours
19
Each course taken by the student may be applied to one program: general education, major, minor or free electives.
General Education Requirements
Total Hours
124