Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Music Performance: Percussion, B.M.


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The Bachelor of Music in Performance prepares undergraduates for a performance career and for private studio teaching. This program of study provides a balanced performance curriculum of solo/chamber repertoire and orchestral excerpts, together with performance in chamber and large ensembles throughout the four-year degree.

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:

Requirements for the Major


Core Courses


Private Study (20 Credit Hours)


Repertoire (4 Credit Hours)


Large Ensemble (8 Credit Hours; each term of residence)


Percussion Ensemble (3 Credit Hours)


MUTH Electives (6 Credit Hours)


At the 3000 level or above

MUHI Elective (3 Credit Hours)


At the 4000 level or above

Music/AMAE Electives (9 Credit Hours)


Community Experience (1 Credit Hour)


Total for the Major Only: 86 Credit Hours


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