Department of Music

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Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Music at Coastal Carolina University is to provide quality music education for all students, excellent performances for the public and service to the university and community.

We believe that music has intrinsic value as a vital and indispensable part of the human experience and nurtures the artistic and creative impulse common to all societies. To that end, we seek to cultivate and sustain a student-centered learning community which supports superior professional and pedagogical training, provides a wide variety of excellent individual and ensemble performance opportunities for all students, and, as a unit in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, is an integral part of a liberal arts education.

In our commitment to excellence, the department recruits and maintains an exceptional and diverse faculty, staff and student population in order to achieve departmental and institutional goals for both undergraduate and graduate education. Serving South Carolina and the broader region, we offer public concerts in a variety of styles and settings and provide music to enhance various university and community functions. Our highest purpose is to empower students with the knowledge, skills, core values and integrity that contribute to life-long learning and service in the arts, and active citizenship in a democratic society and interdependent world.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a familiarity with a wide selection of musical literature, principal eras, genres and cultural forces.
2. Understand common elements and organizational patterns of music and their interactions.
3. Understand compositional processes, aesthetic properties of style, and ways these are shaped by artistic and cultural forces.
4. Understand musical form, processes and structures, as demonstrated in actual performance and through analytical, scholarly and pedagogical applications.
5. Develop and defend musical judgments.
6. Hear, identify and work conceptually with the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony and structure.
7. Demonstrate mastery of skills through one or more vocal or instrumental performance areas.
8. Sing in a musical and accurate manner.
9. Sight-read at the keyboard with fluency demonstrating both general musicianship and an appropriate level of skill.

Acceptance to the B.A. in music requires a successful audition with the department. Audition requirements and procedures are available on the department’s website and from the department’s office. Students who have not yet completed this requirement will be designated “pre-music”, which will meet prerequisites for all music major courses listed at the 100 level.

Applied Music Courses

(1-2 credit hours each) (Coreq: MUS 100 )

• MUS 101: Piano
• MUS 102: Organ
• MUS 101B: Percussion
• MUS 103: Voice
• MUS 104: String Instruments (Violin, Guitar, Cello, Bass)
• MUS 105: Woodwind Instruments (Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone)
• MUS 106: Brass Instruments (Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Euphonium, Tuba)

(2 credit hours each) (Coreq: MUS 100 )

• MUS 111, 112, 211, 212, 311, 312, 411, 412: Piano
• MUS 121, 122, 221, 222, 321, 322, 421, 422: Organ
• MUS 131, 132, 231, 232, 331, 332, 431, 432: Voice
• MUS 141, 142, 241, 242, 341, 342, 441, 442: String Instruments
• MUS 151, 152, 251, 252, 351, 352, 451, 452: Woodwind Instruments (Flute, Clarinet)
• MUS 161, 162, 261, 262, 361, 362, 461, 462: Brass Instruments (Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn)

Programs

• Music: Concentration in Commercial Music and Jazz, B.A.
• Music: Concentration in General Studies, B.A.
• Music: Concentration in Performance, B.A.
• Music: Concentration in Teacher Preparation Precertification, B.A.

• Music Minor

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