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Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26

Music Performance: Keyboard Major (MUKJ)


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The Bachelor of Music - Music Performance: Keyboard Major is a professional degree for pianists. Admission to this program is by audition. No minor is required.

I. WMU Essential Studies (37 hours)


II. Major Area of Concentration (40 hours)


Includes Applied Music, Keyboard Studies, and Performance Ensembles

Applied Music (24 hours)


A total of 24 credit hours of Applied Music on your primary instrument. The minimum number of total credit hours for each level is designated below. (Note: Sections designated for performance majors are three credits each semester.)

Keyboard Studies (6 hours)


Performance Electives (10 hours)


Major Ensemble (4 hours)


Students are required to complete four semesters of a major ensemble (placement by audition):

Chamber Music (2 hours)


A total of two credits hours selected from the following. Must be on the student’s major instrument.

Ensemble Electives (4 hours):


Remaining ensembles electives may be selected from the following:

III. General Music Studies (32 hours)


Basic Music (12 hours)


Aural Skills (3 hours)


Musicology (9 hours)


Conducting (1 hour)


Composition (4 hours)


Upper-level History/Theory (2 hours)


Selected from the following options:

Music Electives (1 hour)


Selected from any MUS course for which the student meets the course prerequisites. MUS 1000:5999
(excluding MUS 1500, MUS 1590, MUS 4500)

Music Clearance (0 hours)


IV. Free Electives to make a minimum of 122 semester credit hours


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