Students of the program offered by the Moravian College?will:

• demonstrate competency with fundamental musicianship skills, including sight-singing; solf?ge; rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic dictation
• ?demonstrate proficiency in Western music theory, including standard principles of voice leading and part writing in diatonic and chromatic harmony and contemporary idioms.
• demonstrate an understanding of the major historical styles, epochs, and composers of Western music, from antiquity to the present
• demonstrate growth as performers in both solo and ensemble situations
• demonstrate an ability to improvise using a given set of parameters
• demonstrate an understanding of the music from outside traditional Western studies and styles, and to draw connections to Western music
• demonstrate an ability to write and speak intelligently about music
• demonstrate an ability to synthesize various aspects of music study (theory, history, musicianship, performance) in both academic and performance venues, thereby demonstrating critical thinking and maturing into well-rounded performing musicians
• develop the capacity to evolve into self-sufficient and life-long learners in musical studies