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Bachelor of Music in Music and Technology (Curriculum A)

The Bachelor of Music in Music and Technology (Curriculum A) is designed for students who possess demonstrated interest in producing music with computer technology who are also performers in voice or on an acoustic instrument.

Pre-college Preparation:

Experience in performance (both traditional and technologically enhanced), music theory, composition, mathematics, and computer applications.

Curriculum

  • Core Curriculum
  • Two terms of a University Orchestra, Band or Choir
  • Two additonal terms of an approved Ensemble
  • Sixteen credit hours of private performance instruction on the principal instrument or voice
  • Two courses in Creative Composition
  • Twenty credit hours in Performing Arts Technology courses including Seminar in the Media Arts, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Introduction to Computer Music, Computer Music Programming and Arranging, Sound Recording and Production, and Digital Music Ensemble or Electronic Chamber Music

  • Four Performing Arts Technology electives selected from: Technical Ear Training and Critical Listening, Advanced Sound Recording and Production I and II, Image, Sound, and Story, Interactive Media, Advanced Computer Composition, Intermediate Composition, Performance Systems, Digital Sound Synthesis, Contemporary Practices in Research and Scholarship and Business of Music

  • Senior Thesis

  • Math 105 (Data, Functions and Graphs) or proficiency, the University’s two-semester English writing requirement, one course in Computer Programming, and non-music electives to total at least 30 hours

  • Electives to complete a total of 120 hours

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