This is a limited-enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. Please see the college advisement center for information regarding requirements for admission to this major.
The bachelor of arts degree offers a broad liberal arts education with a concentration in music. It also provides excellent preparation for a variety of professional music careers or graduate work in theory or musicology.
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major; concurrent enrollment in Music 195. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Development of aural skills through melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 193; concurrent enrollment in Music 196. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 193. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major; concurrent enrollment in Music 193. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Writing and analysis in diatonic harmony. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 195; concurrent enrollment in 194. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Writing and analysis in diatonic and chromatic harmony. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance as a music major. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Rhythm and pitch-reading skills using two systems of counting and melodic solfeggio singing with hand signs. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 197. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 197. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Piano skills determined by entrance diagnostic exam; music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Provides music majors with basic keyboarding ability in such areas as sight reading, technique, harmonization, and score reading. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 221; music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 221. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 194; concurrent enrollment in Music 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 194. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293; concurrent enrollment in Music 296. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 293. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 196; concurrent enrollment in Music 293. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Extended chromatic techniques and introduction to twentieth-century concepts. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 295; concurrent enrollment in Music 294. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Set theory, serialism, and late twentieth-century concepts. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 198. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 297. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Continuation of Music 297. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status, C- or higher in Music 194, 196, 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Physical techniques and musical understanding required to conduct an instrumental performance ensemble. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status, C- or higher in Music 194, 196, 198. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Physical techniques and musical understanding required to conduct a choral performance ensemble. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Acceptance by audition to the School of Music. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Class instruction in voice technique. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music major status; jury approval. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Private instruction and studio class. |
| NOTE: | From one to four hours of daily practice. Fee. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Training and experience in operatic choral music and stage movement. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Training and experience in operatic excerpts, chamber opera, and full productions for operatic soloists. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Auditioned chorus or orchestra for opera or music dance theatre productions. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition and director's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Participation as soloists, coaches, or directors in music dance theatre performances. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition or director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Contemporary and traditional show music (Young Ambassadors) and ethnic music (Lamanite Generation). |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Includes Jazz Ensemble (big band), Jazz Lab Band (entry-level big band), and Vocal Jazz Ensembles. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Includes Jazz Ensemble (big band), Jazz Lab Band (entry-level big band), and Vocal Jazz Ensembles. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Traditional ensemble specializing in early jazz. Band occasionally tours off campus. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Playing and performing on the Balinese gamelan (percussion) instruments. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Audition. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 260R or instructor's consent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Accompanying and ensemble performance. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | Director's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Instructor's consent. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 294 & MUSIC 296 & MUSIC 298; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of musical genres, forms, styles, and performance practices from antiquity through the baroque. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 294 & MUSIC 296 & MUSIC 298; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of musical genres, forms, styles, and performance practices from the classic through the present. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293, 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Analytical study of forms from the common-practice period, including baroque contrapuntal structures and instrumental forms, classical sonata cycle, and romantic part forms. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Exploration of music making from a global perspective. |
| NOTE: | This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | MUSIC 194 & MUSIC 196 & MUSIC 198; Music major status; Music 201, 202 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Survey of jazz history, emphasizing periods, styles, and artists through the analysis of published transcriptions and arrangements. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 293, 295. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Scoring for standard orchestral instruments. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | C- or higher in Music 294, 296. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Eighteenth-century contrapuntal styles and techniques, emphasizing those of J. S. Bach. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 306 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Fundamental questions of aesthetic theory from classical antiquity to the present, emphasizing musical aesthetics. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 481 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | New techniques for standard and new instruments; analysis and listening. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 483 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Strict modal counterpoint in sixteenth- century style (Palestrina); includes species, text setting, and motet. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter Odd Yrs.; Summer Odd Yrs. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Analysis of representative choral and instrumental works from the Renaissance through contemporary styles. |
| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Music 306, 395; or equivalents. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Schenker's system of tonal analysis. |
*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.