Keyboard Performance Bachelor of Music
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What will I study?
The Keyboard Performance (piano or organ) major prepares the student for a career in studio teaching, a ministry in church music, for graduate study, or a career in performance. It offers breadth and specialization in music performance with a solid liberal arts core. The program requires participation in a university ensemble and features junior and senior recitals. The program prescribes 63 credits in the major and supports the Division of Music purpose to equip students to use music for the glory of God.
Program Learning Outcomes
The student will ...
-- Apply knowledge of standard keyboard literature to performance.
-- Integrate music theory and performance in literature interpretation.
-- Apply mature musical interpretation and advanced keyboard skills.
What classes will I take?
First Year +
- Freshman Seminar
- Old Testament Messages
- Introduction to the Arts
- Theory I
- Fundamentals of Speech
- English Composition (3 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Freshman Instrument (2 credits)
- Foundations of Economics
- New Testament Messages
- Introduction to Music Literature
- Theory II
- English Composition (3 credits)
- Music Elective (1 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Freshman Instrument (2 credits)
Second Year +
- Themes in Western Thought
- History of Civilization c. 3500 BC to AD 1650
- Theory III
- 200-level Bible Elective (1 credits)
- English Literature or Writing Elec (3 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Sophomore Instrument (3 credits)
- Essential Science
- History of Civilization since 1650
- Hermeneutics
- Introduction to Music Technology
- Theory IV
- Elements of Conducting
- Keyboard Maj - Sophomore Instrument (3 credits)
- Sophomore Platform Required (0 credits)
- Technique Test - Required (0 credits)
Third Year +
- Bible Doctrines
- History of Music I
- Oral Communication for the Professions
- Foreign Language (3 credits)
- Pedagogy Elec #1 (Keyboard Major) (3 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Junior Instrument (3 credits)
- Bible Doctrines
- History of Music II
- Form & Analysis
- Foreign Language (3 credits)
- Pedagogy Elec #2 (Keyboard Major) (2 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Junior Instrument (3 credits)
Fourth Year +
- Apologetics & Worldview
- History of Music III
- Piano or Organ Literature Survey (3 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Senior Instrument (3 credits)
- Science, Mathematics or Computer Science (3 credits)
- The Christian Musician
- Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
- Upper-Level Bible Elective (2 credits)
- Keyboard Maj - Senior Instrument (3 credits)
- Philosophy or Psychology (3 credits)
- Senior Recital - Required (0 credits)
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