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Bachelor of Music in Performance: Piano with Teacher Cerification (Curriculum B)
The Bachelor of Music in Performance: Piano with Teacher Certification (Curriculum B) is appropriate for pianists who wish to teach in elementary or secondary schools and also wish to focus on performance in addition to education.
Curriculum
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Core Curriculum
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Eight terms of private performance instruction including weekly studio class and piano forum and presentation of a recital
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Four terms of choral ensemble and four terms of piano ensemble
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Two terms of conducting
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Additional coursework in music theory including Basic Theory at the Keyboard, Analysis of 20th-Century Tonal Music, and 18th-Century Counterpoint
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Two semesters of advanced piano literature: Elizabethan-Mozart, and Beethoven to the present
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A minimum of eight to eleven Music Education credit hours and nine School of Education credit hours
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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 148-153 credit hours
Minimum Repertory Requirements for Graduation
Minimum repertoire for graduation includes such works as suites,
partitas, preludes and fugues of J. S. Bach; sonatas of Scarlatti,
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; small and large form compositions of
Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Liszt; music of
Debussy and Ravel; music of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky,
Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Bartók, Copland, and so forth. This should total
at least three full recital programs and two concerti (one preferably by Mozart or Beethoven).
Information on Dual Degree Programs
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