Music: Vocal Concentration, BA

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The Bachelor of Arts degree in Music: Vocal Concentration requires 48 units and is designed with flexibility to encourage the pursuit of a double major. Students with a modest background in music are often able to free up curricular room by waiving fundamentals courses through exams (i.e., MUSIC 100 & MUSIC 105 ).

Foundations

The following lower-division courses are required for the major.

Vocal Technique

Take the following four units of applied vocal pedagogy

MUSIC 124 - Vocal Science I
MUSIC 224 - Private Lessons: Vocal Science II
MUSIC 324 - Lyric Diction 1
MUSIC 325 - Lyric Diction II
Take two units of private lessons, either 226 or 424 may be taken twice
MUSIC 226 - Private Lessons I: Vocal
MUSIC 424 - Advanced Private Lessons: Vocal

Ensembles

A minimum of one unit in foundational ensembles, chosen from the following:

Upper-division Courses

The following upper-division courses are required of all majors.

Music History and Culture

All majors take one from each of the following groups, one of which must have the Writing in the Discipline (WID) designation.

Group 1

Take one of:

Group 2

Take one of the following. Must be different than course chosen for Group 1.

Music Electives

Take at least two units of music electives: all lower- and upper- division MUSIC courses qualify once the music core is fulfilled.