Department of Music 2009-2010 Handbook

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Degree Programs

As a student in the music program, you will:

• gain a board knowledge and appreciation of important music within historical, cultural, and global context;
• achieve proficiency in aural, reading, and keyboard skills;
• learn music theory and apply that learning to critical analysis and musical creation; and
• develop expertise as a solo and ensemble performer.

The Department of Music is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

Majors

• Bachelor of Arts in Music
• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre (B.F.A.)
• Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.)
• Bachelor of Music in Performance
• Interdisciplinary Program in Music and Business (B.A.)
• Individualized Major

Minors

• Music

Courses and Schedules
All Department of Music program requirements and courses are listed in the Otterbein College Undergraduate Catalog.

To see which courses are offered in upcoming quarters, view the Course Schedule site.

Program Requirements

• Acceptance to the department for all music students is by audition.
• Continuation in the music program is determined by jury exams and the results of the sophomore conference (an interview with the full-time faculty and the student's adjunct music instructor, if applicable) to be held normally at the end of the fifth quarter of study, but no later than the first quarter of the junior year.
• The results of the sophomore conference may be:
  • continuation;
  • continuation on probation with specified deficiencies to be remedied and demonstrated at a reexamination;
  • continuation with a change of degree program or curricular emphasis; or
  • non-continuation.
• A minimum grade of "C" is required in all music courses. If a grade lower than "C" is earned in any music course, the course must be repeated in order to count toward the major.
• Candidates for all degree programs must play or sing creditably in regular recitals of the department and participate in one or more of the campus major musical ensembles during each quarter they are enrolled as associated with their principal instrument(s), or specified by their degree program.
• Students must register for Piano Class or Applied Piano until the Piano Proficiency Exam is passed.