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DEGREE
PROGRAMS
BACHELOR OF MUSIC
The Bachelor of Music degree provides intensive professional preparation for careers in music. The program includes private study, weekly master classes in major performing areas, solo and ensemble performance, music history, and music theory. Students also learn to think critically, listen sensitively, and speak and write clearly.
The curriculum consists of 70 percent music courses and emphasizes intensive work in one of the following major areas of study:
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Performance majors choose one of the following for principal private study: piano, harp, organ, voice, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, French horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, or guitar. The main focus is individual performance instruction, but the program also emphasizes music theory and history/literature. In addition to performing solo repertoire, students develop their skills in chamber music and large ensemble performance.
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Music education majors graduate with teaching certification and prepared to teach K-12 choral or instrumental music in public schools. Converse students graduate as versatile, well-grounded, practical musicians, having had the performance and educational opportunities offered by Converse’s unique small-college atmosphere. Beyond course work in such areas as music theory, history, performance studies, piano study, instrumental methods, ensemble participation, conducting, orchestration, and teaching methods, students complete nine credit hours in student teaching.
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| This degree program is designed for students interested in enhancing their piano performing skills and preparing for private piano teaching. In addition to private piano study, music theory, history, and ensemble participation, Piano Pedagogy majors complete three years of course work in piano teaching methods and procedures.
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These programs emphasize the history, analysis, and creation of music. Students focus on developing aural and analytical skills, composition techniques, and expanding their own creative instincts. The search for self-knowledge, a historical understanding, and one’s own creative voice enter into each major. Each program encourages students to develop performance skills and to gain an in-depth understanding of history, theory, and literature.
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Students interested in using music to help people should consider a career in music therapy. Demand for practicing music therapists far outweighs those prepared to enter the field. The Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy degree from Converse College prepares you to work in a variety of clinic situations. Music therapists use music to care for premature infants in neonatal units, communicate with children in psychiatric care facilities, ease the pain of terminally ill patients, comfort the elderly in assisted living environments and endless other possibilities.
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BACHELOR OF ARTS
For students who want a more even balance between music and liberal arts studies, the Petrie School offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in cooperation with the College of Arts and Sciences. The degree is also attractive for students who want to combine music study with a second major or minor.
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For the B.A. in Music degree, 40 percent of the student’s courses will be in music, including music theory and history, piano studies, applied music, and ensemble participation. The remainder of the courses will be in the liberal arts. Although this program does not offer the degree of specialization of the B.M. programs, it can lead to graduate study or a career in music.
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For the Music Business emphasis degree, the student will take music courses, liberal arts courses, business courses, and music business-specific courses such as marketing, management, electronic music business publishing, and a music business internship. The Music Business concentration provides students with distinctive career options ranging from entertainment law to music merchandising, publishing, and artist management.
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Students pursuing the Bachelor of Arts degree with a general major in music may choose a second major or a minor outside of music. Alternative career options are made available through unique programs designed to meet your interests and goals.
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Non-music majors can choose to minor in music, which requires 27.5 credit hours and covers course work in music performance studies, ensembles, music history, and theory. In addition, any Converse student can take private lessons, music courses as electives, or participate in one of several instrumental and choral ensembles that perform on campus and in the community.
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