University of Nebraska at Kearney

1996-98 UNK Undergraduate Catalog

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

Department of
MUSIC AND DANCE

• Music Option - Bachelor of Arts Degree
• Music Performance Option - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
  • Instrumental Emphasis
  • Piano Emphasis
  • Piano Pedagogy Emphasis
  • Vocal Emphasis
• Musical Theatre Option - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
• Music Business Option - Bachelor of Science Degree
• Music K-12 Teaching Field Endorsement Option - Bachelor of Arts in Education
   
• Pre-Profession Program in Music Therapy
   
• Music Minor
• Dance Minor
• Music Minor (Elementary Education)
• Piano Pedagogy Certificate
   
• MUS Courses
• DANC Courses

Ron Crocker, Chair

Professors: Cook, Crocker, Payne, Schaaf, Sivils
Associate Professors: Bauer, Davis, Whitman, Zikmund
Assistant Professors: Asher, Cisler, Foradori, Hancock, Nabb

Department Objectives:

• To provide professional training in music education music business, musical theatre, performance, pedagogy, dance, and music technology and to provide pre-professional training in music therapy;
• To develop in the students a basis for aesthetic judgement and an understanding and appreciation for music and dance;
• To assure an opportunity for the musical development of each student to the highest degree of artistic capability;
• To help members of the university community acquire greater musical understanding and critical judgment through enrollment in music courses and private lessons, participation in music ensembles, and attendance at various musical functions;
• To offer leadership in the musical life of the area by providing participative, collaborative and advisory services;
• To present concerts, recitals, musicals, operas, and music for special events;
• To prepare students for graduate work and advanced study.

Requirements

1. All students planning to major or minor in music must complete admission requirements as determined by the Department of Music. Application for admission including audition must be submitted prior to enrollment. Music majors and minors must choose an area of applied music and meet the proficiency standards of the Department for admission and graduation. All new students will audition to determine their performance level. Students should be able to perform with adequate technique tone quality and musicianship selections corresponding to the following levels:

• Instrumental--Level 4 of the MENC Selective Music List;
• Vocal--any material in the MENC Selective Music List;
• Piano--Level 4 of the NMTA Audition Repertoire List;
• Organ--same as piano, but comparable organ literature may be substituted. In any event organ students must display adequate piano facility but need not have previous organ training.

All incoming students including transfer students will also take placement tests in the areas of theory, ear training, sight singing, and piano skills.
Students who do not meet admission requirements may be admitted provisionally. Once students have been accepted into a program they must receive departmental approval to change their applied music area or academic program.

2. All music majors and minors are required to complete piano requirements as determined by the Department of Music and Dance. The placement level in the piano techniques classes will be made at the time of the entrance audition. Proficiency examinations are scheduled each semester. Students must complete piano proficiency requirements before registering for student teaching or internship.

3. Full time music majors must participate in at least one ensemble each semester, except the semester of student teaching or internship. Wind and percussion students will elect one of the instrumental ensembles and are required to participate in marching band for two semesters; string players will elect the orchestra; voice majors will elect an appropriate choral group; keyboard majors may elect any for their participation requirement. Music Education majors are strongly encouraged to participate in both vocal and instrumental ensembles. See degree options for specific requirements.

4. Students completing requirements for a major or minor in music must earn the total number of credits listed for their specific program. Completion of a course through proficiency examination does not reduce the total number of program credits required.

5. Candidates for degrees must satisfactorily complete an exit assessment, including a portfolio, before graduation. Specific requirements should be obtained from the advisor in the student's first semester as a music major.

Five options are available in this major:

I. Music Option - Bachelor of Arts Degree
II. Music Performance Option - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree

Instrumental Emphasis

Piano Emphasis
Piano Pedagogy Emphasis
Vocal Emphasis

III. Musical Theatre Option - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
IV. Music Business Option - Bachelor of Science Degree
V. Music K-12 Teaching Field Endorsement Option - Bachelor of Arts in Education

A Pre-Profession Program in Music Therapy is available.

Minors in Music and Dance are available for students pursuing majors in other disciplines. The Elementary Education major has a specially defined music minor. A Piano Pedagogy Certificate is also offered by the Department.

Courses with the prefixes MUS and DANC are offered by the department.

A semester by semester outline of suggested courses for each degree option is available in the Music and Dance Office.