Ability to sing or play an instrument that evidences interpretative understanding and technical accomplishment at a level appropriate to the student’s degree program and professional goals, in both solo and ensemble contexts.
Experience in composing and improvising.
Ability to write and speak about music with precision and clarity and to articulate and defend critical judgments.
Acquire fluency with an extensive and varied repertory through performance, analysis, and concert attendance (including Western art music, non-Western art music, jazz, and Western and non-Western popular and folk music).
Knowledge of the historical and cultural contexts in which music has been created and performed in different periods and places.
Functional knowledge of the terminology, and grammar of music with regards to musical elements (rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, texture, dynamics, form) and their application in aural and score-based analysis.
Functional ear training and keyboard skills, including sight-reading.
