Music, History and Literature Option, B.M.

(132 units)

The Bachelor of Music degree is a high-unit professional degree and requires 132 units for graduation. Music units include the core requirements and one option. Students interested in the BM program must successfully complete an audition for entrance to the program. This should be accomplished prior to entrance to the University. Students wishing to consider the BM program after they have enrolled at CSULB may not apply after they have completed more than a maximum of 96 units.

Core Requirements

Music History and Literature:

Take all the following courses:

MUS 160 - History of Music: Baroque/Classic (3 units)
MUS 190 - Listener’s Approach to Music (3 units)
MUS 360 - History of Music: Medieval/Renaissance (3 units)
MUS 374 - History of Music: Nineteenth/Twentieth Centuries (3 units)
MUS 490 - Introduction to Music Cultures (3 units)

Music Theory:

Take all the following courses:

MUS 141A - Musicianship I (2 units)
MUS 141B - Musicianship II (2 units)
MUS 142A - Harmony I (3 units)
MUS 142B - Harmony II (3 units)
MUS 240 - Advanced Musicianship (2 units)
MUS 341 - Musical Form and Analysis (3 units)
MUS 342 - Materials of Modern Music (3 units)

Major Performance Organization:

All Music Majors must audition for an MPO in their area each semester and must participate in the MPO as determined by audition. Participation in additional ensembles may be used as electives.

MUS 100 /MUS 300 MPO, one topic each semester in residence.

Piano: Upon passing the Upper Division Screening Exam (UDSE) piano students may take MUS 400 (topic U) for MPO

Please Note: Previously this listing for piano was listed as “… piano students take MUS 400 (topic U)…”. This is corrected here to “…piano students may take MUS 400 (topic U)… “

Strings: Take MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics I or J)

Winds and Percussion: Take MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics A, B, or C)

Vocal: Take MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics E, F, or G)

Opera: Take at least 6 semesters of MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics E, F, or G) and at least 2 semesters of MUS 330

Jazz Studies: Take at least 4 semesters of MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics A, B, C, E, F, G, I, or J). Upon passing the Upper Division Screening Exam (UDSE) take MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics K, L, M, N, O, or P) for a minimum of 4 semesters

Composition: Take at least 4 semesters of MUS 100 /MUS 300 (topics A, B, C, E, F, G, I, or J). Upon passing the Upper Division Screening Exam (UDSE) take MUS 400 (topic B) for 4 semesters

MUS 100 - Selected Topics - Major Performance Organization (1 unit)
or
MUS 300 - Selected Topics - Major Performance Organization (1 unit)

Keyboard Proficiency:

Successful completion of conservatory’s piano proficiency examination (equivalent to MUS 220B )
(piano majors excepted)

Requirements

Completion of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Foreign Language Examination in French, German or Italian (may be waived by completion of FREN 101B , GERM 101B , or ITAL 101B level course).

Take 3 units of upper-division coursework outside music, under advisement, to be related to Senior Thesis topic or include foreign language literature classes.

Take the following course:

Taken each semester in residence until successful completion of Upper-Division Screening Examination in applied music (a minimum of 4 units is required).

MUS 129 - Selected Topics - Individual Instruction for Music Majors (1 unit)

Music, History and Literature Option, B.M.

Core Requirements