Learning Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of a variety of cultures, various historical periods, and the ability to produce and defend scholarly work.
• Students will possess an understanding of evolving relationships among musical structure, music history, and performance practices, and the influence of such evolutions on musical and cultural change.
• Students will be able to use effectively the tools of scholarship including keyboard skills, spoken and written language, research techniques, advanced musical analysis, and applicable technologies. Reading skill in foreign languages is essential.
• Students will demonstrate a knowledge of American and European music as well as the music of other cultures. This will include the ability to perform detailed analysis of much of this music.
• Students develop skills and knowledge in foreign languages and in the liberal arts that will enable them to address culture and history from a variety of viewpoints.
• Students will become competent performers (soloists and members of ensembles).
• Students will be able to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively about the art of music.