Applied Music

Applied music is an individual instruction on a student’s major instrument or in voice, usually one one-hour lesson per week. Applied lessons culminate in a required end-of-the semester jury examination for all students enrolled in these courses. Such instruction is critical to a student’s musical development. All students are required to enroll in applied lessons each semester of enrollment. Applied music courses are numbered so that each successive level represents a higher degree of proficiency. Remedial applied lessons (0-level) are required for those students that do not meet the entry-level proficiency required to be a music major, as indicated by the entrance performance audition or based upon an evaluation by the applied instructor. Remedial applied lessons do not count towards music major degree requirements and therefore students enrolled in these courses will be required to take more than the minimum number of hours indicated to complete degree requirements. Students will be admitted into 100-level lessons after demonstrating entry-level proficiency required for 100-level applied music students as required by faculty. Students who do not satisfy 100-level applied requirements will be admitted conditionally for two semesters, at the end of which time a determination and recommendation will be made by the applied faculty as to the student’s proposed continuation in the program. A passing grade in remedial applied lessons (0-level) does not imply nor guarantee full admittance as a music major. Students may use the end of semester jury as an audition to be moved to 100-level status. Students may choose from the following areas for applied study: piano, percussion, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, and voice.