DEGREE PROGRAMS

Bachelor of Music in Performance: Organ with Teacher Certification (Curriculum B)

The Bachelor of Music in Performance: Organ with Teacher Certification (Curriculum B) is designed for organists who wish to teach in elementary or secondary schools and who wish to focus on performance in addition to education.

Pre-college Music Preparation:

A secure grasp of technique and musicianship from piano study. A student planning to major in organ should be able to play such repertory as the preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach, classical sonatas, selected etudes by Chopin, and a significant modern work.

Curriculum

• Core Curriculum

• Eight terms of private instruction in organ (including the Core requirement)

• Six terms of choral ensemble

• Completion of secondary piano performance and secondary study in voice performance

• Two terms of conducting

• Additional course work beyond the Core in music theory including Analysis of 20th-Century Tonal Music, and two terms of 18th-Century Counterpoint

• Two terms of organ literature

• Two terms of church music

• Presentation of a memorized recital

• A minimum of eight to eleven Music Education credit hours and nine School of Education credit hours

• Admission to the Teacher Education Program

• Completion of all applications, courses, student teaching, and audits necessary for the K-12 Michigan Teacher’s Certificate

• A minimum of thirty-two credit hours of additional coursework in various departments covering the areas of humanities, natural and social science, one introductory psychology course, and the University's two semester English writing requirement

• Electives to complete a total of 151-160 credit hours
  

Minimum Repertory Requirements for graduation

At least three large and four smaller works of early music from such composers as Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Couperin, and de Grigny; six large and two smaller chorale preludes of Bach; at least four major free works and two trio sonatas of Bach; one work by a composer of the 18th century after Bach; six or more works by representative composers of the 19th century such as Franck, Brahms, and Reger; and six or more works by 20th-Century or American composers. Selected compositions, including all works for the degree recital, are to be memorized.

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