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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Music Performance: Piano, B.M.
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The Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance prepares well-educated, creative, and professionally-skilled pianists who are able to compete successfully for entry-level employment or further studies and contribute to cultural life as artists, educators, and advocates in a rapidly changing world.
SMU Degree Requirements
An SMU undergraduate degree requires a minimum of 120 credit hours and must include completion of the University’s Common Curriculum , one major and a combination of electives and/or other majors or minors. Completion of certain majors requires more than 120 hours to finish the degree. The credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Requirements for the Major
Musicianship and Introductory Music Theory (12 Credit Hours)
Musicology (9 Credit Hours)
Class Piano (4 Credit Hours)
Private Study (16 Credit Hours)
Conducting (2 Credit Hours)
Accompanying (5 Credit Hours)
Pedagogy (8 Credit Hours)
Repertoire (2 Credit Hours)
Sight Reading (2 Credit Hours)
MUTH Electives (6 Credit Hours)
At the 3000 level or above
MUHI Elective (3 Credit Hours)
At the 4000 level or above
PERE Large Ensemble (3 Credit Hours)
PERE Chamber Ensemble (2 Credit Hours)
Music/AMAE Electives (5 Credit Hours)
Community Experience (1 Credit Hour)
Total for the Major Only: 82 Credit Hours
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