The music major, with four possible concentrations, prepares students for entry-level positions in fields such as church music or music retailing. The curriculum requires 45 semester hours in music and allows time to complete a second major in another department. Each concentration maintains a common core of music theory, music history, piano and applied study.
Concentration options:
- Music business allows you to specialize in a variety of areas — artist management, arts administration, music retail or recording.
- Music ministry is an area that prepares you for leading music in the worship service as well as participating in worship planning.
- Performance studies provides an opportunity for you to develop your skills in a performance area preparing you for graduate study.
- Piano pedagogy is the study of piano teaching. This concentration ensures that you will develop your teaching and business skills so that you will be successful in the area of private teaching.
Many Bluffton music graduates have gone on to complete master's and doctoral degrees.
This major can be completed in three years if you are a dedicated and ambitious student.
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Forms to declare a major or minor in music (pdf)
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