Music Learning Aims

Students who elect a music concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following five areas:

• Aural literacy — defined as an ability to recognize the elements of musical language: pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and the ability to manipulate those elements in a coherent manner
• Stylistic literacy — the ability to recognize, analyze, and understand the genesis of the major stylistic periods
• Instrumental literacy — the ability to perform music in an expressive and stylistically appropriate manner at a reasonably advanced level
• Ensemble ability — the ability to work cooperatively towards a musical/interpretive goal with other musicians
• Writing skills — the ability to write cogently about music