SCHOOL OF MUSIC

C. Brad Foley, Dean, A-118 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Robert L. Hause, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies, A-119 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Rodney Schmidt, Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Technology, A-102 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Jeffery W. Jarvis, Chairperson, Instrumental Music, A-314 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Charles F. Bath, Chairperson, Keyboard Music A-369 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Michelle P. Hairston, Chairperson, Music Education, A-213 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
Thomas J. Huener, Chairperson, Theory, Composition, and Musicology, A-301 A. J. Fletcher Music Center
John B. O'Brien, Chairperson, Vocal Studies, A-268 A. J. Fletcher Music Center

ADMISSION

Admission to the university does not guarantee admission to the School of Music. Prospective music majors and minors must be admitted both to the university and to the School of Music.  Admission to the School of Music is determined by an acceptable level of performance as demonstrated through a personal audition or a recent taped recording.  A satisfactory audition is required of all entering freshmen, transfer students, and students being readmitted. Acceptance of the audition is based upon an affirmative vote by a majority of the auditioning committee, which comprises a minimum of three faculty members.  Admission is limited in some applied disciplines in the School of Music. For detailed information, students should contact the assistant dean for undergraduate studies of the School of Music.

PERFORMANCE MEDIUM

Each music major or minor is required to have a major performance medium. The medium may be chosen in any of the following areas: piano, organ, voice, strings, woodwind, brass, or percussion. Private instruction in the chosen medium is required throughout the four-year program of study. Detailed information regarding auditions and audition dates will be supplied upon request by the assistant dean for undergraduate studies of the School of Music. Basic entrance requirements in the major performance media are as follows:

Voice: An acceptable voice and the ability to sing with accurate pitch and rhythm.

Piano: The ability to perform acceptably major and minor scales and arpeggios and compositions representative of piano literature from three of the four style periods (baroque, classic, romantic, contemporary).

Other Instruments: A fundamental knowledge of the instrument including an acceptable method of producing tone; awareness of intonation problems; accurate rhythmic feeling; some knowledge of solo literature available for the instrument; the ability to play major, minor, and chromatic scales with the proper fingering.

A student whose performance proficiency level is slightly below the minimum for entering freshmen may be admitted on probation in a major applied area. The student may take freshman music courses for credit and preparatory work in a major applied area for no credit for a maximum of one semester, as determined by the faculty in the major area.

CURRICULA

Placement Examinations

Transfer students are given placement tests in basic music knowledge during the summer orientation to determine their appropriate levels of study in music theory and history courses.

Transfer students are given jury examinations in their major applied areas at the end of the first semester to establish their appropriate proficiency levels.

General Recital Attendance Requirement for All Majors

Each music major is required to attend at least 75 percent of the total number of general recitals offered during his or her enrollment at East Carolina University. (Music education students will be exempted during the student teaching semester.)

Piano Proficiency for All Majors

Music majors are required to complete satisfactorily the group piano sequence indicated in their concentrations or to demonstrate a comparable level of accomplishment.

Students should enroll in group piano each semester until the sequence is completed.  Any student interrupting the sequence (either by dropping or by not enrolling) must retake the placement audition before enrolling in any subsequent piano course.

Applied and Core Music Regulations for Music Majors and Minors

A minimum grade of C in applied lessons on a student’s major instrument will qualify as credit in the applied major guideline.  The first grade lower than C must be raised the following semester according to the procedures given in the undergraduate catalog. A student will be disqualified as a music major or music minor the second time that he or she receives a grade lower than C in applied lessons on the major instrument.

A minimum grade of C in core MUSC courses (1156, 1166, 1176, 1186, 1406, 2156, 2166, 2176, 2186, 2406, 2416, 3156, 3166, 3176) is required to receive credit toward the music major.

To be admitted to upper division courses in all degree programs, students must pass a qualifying exam as specified in the School of Music Handbook.

BACHELOR OF MUSIC DEGREES

Majors for the bachelor of music degree are offered in music education, music therapy, performance (with concentrations in jazz studies, music theatre, organ, piano, piano pedagogy, sacred music, strings, voice, and winds or percussion), and theory-composition with concentrations in theory, traditional media composition, and electronic media composition.  For admission to the upper level of the degree programs, a student must have a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA and a minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA in music courses at the end of the sophomore year.

BM IN MUSIC EDUCATION

See Section 7, Degree Programs, School of Education, Licensure, for NC teacher licensure requirements.  Minimum degree requirement for the various majors is 128 s.h. as follows:

BM IN MUSIC THERAPY

Minimum degree requirement for the various majors is 128 s.h. as follows: