Music Learning Aims
Performing arts majors with a music concentration will demonstrate mastery in the following areas:
- Aural literacy, defined as an ability to recognize the elements of musical language: pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and the ability to manipulate those elements in a coherent manner.
- Stylistic literacy, defined as the ability to recognize, analyze, and understand the genesis of the major stylistic periods.
- Instrumental literacy, defined as the ability to perform music in an expressive and stylistically appropriate manner at a reasonably advanced level.
- Ensemble ability, defined as the ability to work cooperatively towards a musical/interpretive goal with other musicians.
- Writing skills, defined as the ability to write cogently about music.