Music Performance Major: Composition (BMus)
Degree: Bachelor in Music
Majors: Biblical Studies, Music Performance (Composition)
Major Mission: The Music Performance major is designed to facilitate a high level of artistic training that, paired with the students' biblical and worship studies, will produce cross-cultural leaders uniquely prepared to influence the world of performing arts with grace and truth and to serve the local body with their gifts and talents.
Major Outcomes:
Core Music Outcomes
1. Technical: Demonstrate basic musicianship skills in sight-singing, dictation, conducting, voice and piano.
2. Faith Integration: Describe and demonstrate the integration of a Biblical worldview in the life and career of an artist.
3. Synthesis: Apply historical and theoretical understanding to the analysis, performance, and creation of musical forms, processes, and structures found in representative examples from the western music tradition.
Music Performance: Composition Outcomes In addition, students will:
4. Demonstrate professional skills in musical composition consistent with expectations for professional/commercial application (commissions, placements) and/or entrance into graduate studies.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of diverse historic and modern compositional methods .
Requirements: In order to fulfill the baccalaureate requirements in music performance, the student must:
- Complete all credit requirements.
- Fulfill all departmental requirements as outlined in the MWPA Handbook.
- Complete WPA101, Intro to Music, Worship, and the Performing Arts.
- Participate and maintain a 3.5 average in a large ensemble for eight semesters.
- Maintain a 3.0 average in chosen proficiency.
- Practice a minimum of seven hours weekly for a total of 84 hours per semester on the major applied instrument.
- Perform and obtain a satisfactory evaluation from the MWPA faculty for student junior and senior recitals.
- Attend all required MWPA department forum (WPA 100), performances, and events.
- Accumulate two semesters of a major proficiency and six semesters of composition lessons.
Music Performance Major: Composition Curriculum
Freshman Year
Fall Semester
| LBC 101 | Engaging Faith & Life | 3 |
| THE 105 | Prelude to Biblical & Theological Studies | 3 |
| LAN 101 | College Composition and Research | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
MAP ____
| Applied Music Lesson | 1 |
| MUS 101 | Music Theory I | 3 |
| MUS 101L | Musicianship I Lab | 1 |
| WPA 102 | Intro to Music, Worship, & the Performing Arts | 3 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 17 |
Spring Semester
| BIB 106 | Interpreting the Bible | 3 |
| LAN 104 | Public Speaking | 3 |
MAT ____
| MAT Core | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
MAP ____
| Applied Music Lesson | 1 |
| MUL 101 | Piano Lab I | 1 |
| MUS 102 | Music Theory II | 3 |
| MUS 102L | Musicianship II Lab | 1 |
| MUS 221 | Conducting I | 3 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Sophomore Year
Fall Semester
| CSV 201 | Christian Service I | 0 |
| BIB 103 | Creation & Covenants: OT I | 3 |
| HIS 224 | History of Christian Song | 3 |
LIT ____
| LIT Core (100/200 Level) | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
MAP ____
| Applied Music Lesson | 1 |
| MUL 102 | Piano Lab II | 1 |
| MUS 312 | Rhythm Section Methods | 3 |
| MUS 212 | Contemporary Theory & Arranging | 3 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Spring Semester
| CSV 202 | Christian Service II | 0 |
| BIB 104 | Israel's Life & Literature: OT II | 3 |
| THE 223 | Christian Narrative I: Creation & Fall | 3 |
| PHE 129 | Rhythmic Movement | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
MAP ____
| Applied Music Lesson | 1 |
| MUS 201 | Music Theory III | 3 |
| MUS 201L | Musicianship Lab III | 1 |
| MUS 211 | Introduction to Composition | 3 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Junior Year
Fall Semester
| BIB 203 | Life of Christ: NT I | 3 |
| THE 224 | Christian Narrative II: Redemption | 3 |
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| Arts & Sciences Elective | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
| MUS 202L | Musicianship IV Lab | 1 |
| HUM 240 | Music History I | 3 |
| MAP 302 | Applied Music - Composition | 1 |
| MUS 332 | Orchestration | 3 |
| WPA 301 | Worship & Performing Arts Internship I | 0 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Spring Semester
| BIB 204 | Early Church: NT II | 3 |
| BOT 210 | Psalms | 3 |
| HUM 340 | Music History II | 3 |
PHE ____
| PHE Elective | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
| MAP 302 | Applied Music - Composition | 1 |
| MPR 399 | Junior Recital | 0 |
| MUS 335 | Composition with Electronic Media | 3 |
| WPA 302 | Worship & Performing Arts Internship II | 0 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Senior Year
Fall Semester
BNT ____
| Bible New Testament Exegetical Elective | 3 |
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| Arts & Sciences Elective | 3 |
| HUM 440 | Music History III | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
| MAP 302 | Applied Music - Composition | 1 |
| MUS 330 | Form & Analysis | 3 |
| WPA 400 | MWPA Cross Cultural Externship | 0 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring Semester
THE 320
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| Arts & Sciences Elective | 3 |
SCI ____
| SCI CORE (100/200 Level) | 3 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (primary) | 1 |
ENS ____
| Ensemble (NC) | 0 |
| MAP 302 | Applied Music - Composition | 1 |
| MPR 401 | Performance Career Seminar | 1 |
| MPR 499 | Senior Recital | 1 |
| MUS 331 | Counterpoint | 3 |
| WPA 450 | Worship and Performing Arts Practicum | 1 |
| WPA 100 | Worship & Performing Arts Forum | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |