What degrees are offered for Music Majors?

• Music Performance- specializing in performance (with a pedagogy option)
• Music Literature - specializing in music history and literature
• Music Education - meeting state licensure requirements for teaching music in elementary and secondary schools
• Music Management - gaining business skills to apply in music industries

*In all these areas students choose a major instrument or voice on which to specialize. A special option available at St. Scholastica is the opportunity to major in historical instruments or voice; instruments are available for students use.

All music majors take courses in:

• Music Theory (harmony, analysis, arranging, keyboard, sight singing, ear training)
• Music History (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern Eras)
• Applied Music (private lessons on your major instrument or voice)
• Ensembles (choir, band, woodwind quintet, string quartet, Abbey Minstrels, string orchestra, flute ensemble, viol consort, clarinet quartet, saxophone quartet, jazz ensemble, recorder consort)

Course Sequence for Music Majors

Requirements for admission to music major:
1. Junior-level standing

2.      a. For music performance, music education and music management students: admission to 3000 level of music lessons, completion of MUS 2297 Sophomore Recital, and completion of MUS 2298 Keyboard/Sightsinging Proficiency.
          b. For music literature students: 2 semesters of music lessons on the major instrument/voice

3. Cumulative GPA of 2.0 (on a 4.0 scale) Retention requirements: Students must earn a minimum of C- in all courses required for the major and remain in good academic standing with the College to maintain status as a Music major.

You may minor in music at St. Scholastica by taking courses in Music Theory and History, studying privately and playing in ensembles.

Requirements for Music Minor