Purpose: preparation for private music teaching or for graduate study in performance.
Students must complete two semesters in one of the majors within the Music Department before acceptance can be granted in Performance. Specific attention is given to personal lessons, culminating in a senior recital capstone experience.
Program requirements
Students wishing to declare this major must apply in writing to the music faculty for permission, after completing two semesters of full- time study in the Geneva College department of music in another music major.
16 hours in music theory and aural skills (108, 109, 128, 129, 208, 209, 228, 229)
Eight hours in music history and literature (210, 31 0, 311)
Two hours in conducting (231, 232)
Three hours in instrumentation (either 351 or 491 Orchestration)
10 hours in ensembles (eight in large assembles, 212, 213, 215; 2 in small ensembles 214, 216, 21 8)
Two hours in class instruments other than piano and the major instrument (153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 193, 254, 255, 257)
Three hours in acoustics
Four hours in literature and pedagogy of the major instrument (320, 420)
19 hours in lessons in the major instrument
One hour in senior recital
Piano proficiency (normally, zero to four credit hours): level II for keyboard majors, level I for all others
Keyboard majors: four hours in accompanying (MUA 220)
Voice majors: four hours in language diction courses (MUS 120, 121)
Other instrument majors: four credits in chamber ensembles (214 or equivalent)
TOTAL: 69—73 credits in music, three in acoustics.
Additional performance and proficiency requirements:
- Passing piano proficiency (as above)
- Participation in at least one ensemble each semester.
- Performance in at least one student recital per semester and before the board each semester.
- Prescribed attendance at recitals and concerts.
- Presentation, during senior year, of a one-hour solo recital of works approved by the music faculty.
