Music (B.A.)

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Music program can:

  1. Analyze a significant work of music, employing relevant concepts of phrasal, harmonic and structural analysis.
  2. Research a subject in the history of music by employing the major resources of music research, and engaging with those sources to create and support a scholarly argument.
  3. Demonstrate proficiency on a major instrument (or voice).
  4. Articulate an awareness of various career and graduate school options in music.
  5. Articulate a post-graduation plan based on a demonstrated awareness of their own interests and gifts.
  6. Demonstrate mature reflection on their own faith as it informs their work as musicians and their career choices.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

MUAP xxx
Applied Music credits

8
MUED 251Conducting I: Fundamentals

2
MUEN xxx
Music Ensemble credits

6
MUMH 303History of Music I

2
MUMH 304History of Music II

3
MUMH 305History of Music III

3
MUMH 338Studies in Global Music

2
MUSI 001Concert Attendance

0
MUSI 481Senior Seminar in Music

1
MUTH 101Music Theory I

3
MUTH 102Music Theory II

3
MUTH 107Sight Singing & Ear Training I

1
MUTH 108Sight Singing & Ear Trng II

1
MUTH 109Keyboard I

1
MUTH 110Keyboard II

1
MUTH 201Music Theory III

3
MUTH 202Music Theory IV

3
MUTH 207Sight Singing & Ear Trng. III

1
Piano Proficiency Exam

0
Senior Recital (solo or joint)

0

MUMH 304: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.

Music Ensemble: Required distribution of MUEN credits dependent on performance area.

Twelve credits of the following:

One or three credits from the following:

MUED 140Voice Class

1
MUSI 452Vocal Pedagogy

3

AND 9 or 11 credits of MUAP or MUSI electives (9 or 11)

All music majors, except those in the Music (Business) and Music (Music and Worship) degrees, will register for Keyboard I in order to prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam. Students who successfully pass the Piano Proficiency Exam at the end of the Fall semester will fulfill the other keyboard credit with any music course. Students who do not pass (or attempt) the Piano Proficiency exam in the fall will register for Keyboard II in the Spring semester. Students who do not pass the Piano Proficiency Exam at the end of the Spring Semester, will register for MUAP Piano lessons until the exam is passed at the end of their Sophomore year or second year as a music major. Students are allowed three attempts to pass the Piano Proficiency Exam.

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement 0
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar 3
Oral Communication 3
Created and Called for Community (W) 3
Mathematical Sciences 3-4
Laboratory Science 3-4
Science, Technology & the World 3

Two of the following: Social Science, European History or United States History 

 6
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts waived
First Semester of Language 3
Second Semester of Language 3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural 3
Non-Western Studies (MUMH 338) met/major
Bible 3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course 1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements 46-48
Major requirements 56
Free electives 21-19
Total credits 123