Organ Performance
Objectives
To produce graduates who are prepared for any or all of the following, depending on their accomplishments and goals:
- service as organists and/or music directors in respected church music programs
- service as teachers and performers within their local and regional communities
- undertaking the establishment of a professional career via competitions and further performance experiences
- beginning doctoral studies in organ performance or sacred music
Degree Requirements
| Major Area | |
|---|---|
| ORGN 501-503: Graduate Applied Organ | 12 |
| PERF: One Graduate Recital (see Final Project) | 0 |
| Other Studies in Music | |
| Choose from the following: | 2 |
| MLT 570: Organ Literature (2 credits) | |
| MUS 575: Applied Music Pedagogy: Organ (2) | |
| MHS 520: Research and Bibliography | 2 |
| MUS 501: Graduate Assistants’ Forum | 0 |
| Required of all graduate assistants; open to, but not required of, all other graduate students | |
| MUS 54X: Graduate Ensemble | 0 |
| The student must enroll in an appropriate major ensemble [or accompanying] each semester of residence, with or without credit, in consultation with the directors of choral and instrumental activities. | |
| Choose from among the following: | 6 |
| Choose one music history course and one theory course. | |
| MHS 590: Seminar in Music History (topics vary by semester) (3) | |
| MHS 595: Special Topics in Music History (3) | |
| MTH 567: Systems of Analysis and Contemporary Art Music (3) | |
| MTH 566: Advanced Orchestration (3) | |
| MTH 558: Sixteenth Century Counterpoint (3) | |
| MTH 563: Form and Analysis (3) | |
| MTH 475: Synthesizer/Computer Applications (3) | |
| MTH 595: Special Topics in Music Theory (3) | |
| Humanities | |
| MHUM 501: Seminar: Music, Worship and Culture in Christian Perspective | 3 |
| Electives | |
| Music courses* numbered 500** or above. | 7 |
| *No more than 2 credit hours of ensemble may count as music elective hours toward the degree. | |
| **A limited number of music courses numbered 400 or above may also be taken as electives, with the approval of the graduate advisor. | |
| TOTAL: | 32 |
Final Project
The student must perform one full solo recital. The student must submit recital programs and concert program notes.