Performance

Wilfrid Laurier University - 2004-2005 Undergraduate Academic Calendar

Faculty of Music

Performance

This program is designed for students who intend to become professional performers and teachers of performance. Students who demonstrate at audition time or during Year 1 or Year 2, that they have the potential to succeed as performers may apply to enter this program. Students in Year 1 receive one-hour weekly lessons, while those in Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 receive 1.5 hours of private instruction per week. If exceptional performance abilities are demonstrated at the time of audition, students may, at the recommendation of the audition panel and with permission of the dean, be offered 1.5-hour lessons in Year 1. All performance majors are required, during Year 2 and Year 3, to take part regularly in recitals, and during Year 4 to give a full-length formal solo recital.

Core courses required in all performance programs: All core courses listed above in the comprehensive program; MU290B‡, MU390B‡, MU490B‡; MU375 or MU461 or MU462; 4.0 non-music credits.

Additional courses required in performance areas:

Fortepiano: MU390B‡ and MU490B‡ in fortepiano; MU293; MU373; MU383 or MU483; MU253 (in place of MU281) and MU393; MU386; 0.5 Music elective credit; 1.0 Music or non-music elective credit.
Guitar: MU381; 0.5 credit from the Music 370 series; 2.0 Music elective credits; 1.0 Music or non-music elective credit.
Historical Instruments: MU381 (Baroque Ensemble) or MU383; MU481 (Baroque Ensemble) or MU483; MU371 or MU372; MU386; 1.0 Music elective credit; 1.0 Music or non-music elective credit.
Orchestral Instruments: MU381, MU387, MU481; 0.5 credit from the MU370 series; 1.0 Music elective credit and 1.0 Music or non-music elective credit. Students whose principal instrument is violin, viola, or violoncello must take MU283, MU383 and MU483; those whose principal instrument is double bass, woodwind, or brass must take one of MU283, MU383, MU483.
Organ: MU292A, MU292B, MU361, MU365, MU367, MU465; 1.0 Music or non-music elective credit.
Piano: MU293; MU373 or MU374; MU181, MU253, and one of MU383 or MU483; MU253 (in place of MU281) and MU393; MU493; 1.0 Music elective credit; 0.5 Music or non-music elective credit.
Voice: MU294, MU298*; MU291; 0.5 credit from the MU370 series or MU386; MU381, MU391; 0.5 Music elective credit.

Faculty of Music
Honours Bachelor of Music
Programs of Study

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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