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MUSIC
AT MILLIGAN
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The music education major supports the primary goal of the Music Area to produce well-trained musicians who enjoy music and music making while also viewing music as a way to enhance and improve the quality of life. The music curriculum at Milligan seeks to produce life-long learners and lovers of music, as well as accomplished performers and avid music consumers. Within the scope of the above goal are two main areas - performance and appreciation - expressed in the following outcomes:
The music education curriculum is designed as an interdisciplinary program for the student planning a career in teaching music. Students majoring in music education must choose either the instrumental or vocal emphasis. Licensure is K-12 vocal/general or K-12 instrumental. This degree requires nine semesters of study. Completion of a foreign language through the intermediate level is required. The student is trained in voice or an orchestral instrument, piano, conducting, and in the materials and methods of elementary and secondary music education. The student is also trained in educational applications of computer and digital keyboard technology. Opportunities for field work in area schools, including directed teaching, broaden the student's education.
Applied music study must be voice in either the principal or secondary concentration for those students with a major in music education with the vocal emphasis. A standard band or orchestral must be the principal concentration for those students with a major in music education with the instrumental emphasis. Piano must be the principal or secondary concentration for the music education major unless a proficiency (MUSC 207) in piano is completed. All music education majors whose principal instrument is piano must enroll in one semester of organ study. Each
semester of their applied study, Music Education majors
take a jury in their principal applied area. Majors not taking MUSC 101, 102, 201 also take a jury in the secondary area each semester
of their applied study. Students enrolled Piano as a Secondary
Concentration take MUSC 207-Piano Proficiency when the professor deems
the student prepared. Note the following exemptions from juries: Music majors must participate in an ensemble for six semester hours. Music majors fulfill their particular ensemble requirement with participation in an ensemble that uses their particular applied study skills for at least four of the required six semester hours. Ensemble participation cannot occur during Student Teaching: K-12 (Education 455). Music education-instrumental majors with a principal applied area in percussion, brass, or woodwinds must satisfy their ensemble requirements with two semester hours of Johnson City Community Concert Band (Civic Band). A maximum of two semester hours in Jazz Ensemble (if instrumentation appropriate) may count toward the ensemble credit. For string majors, participation in Orchestra fulfills the ensemble requirement. Ensemble requirements for students whose principal applied area is guitar will be determined on an individual basis by the applied instructor and ensemble directors. Participation in choral or instrumental ensembles fulfills the ensemble requirement for students whose principal applied area is keyboard. For voice majors, participation in Concert Choir or Milligan Women's Chorale fulfills the ensemble requirement.
Concert
and recital attendance is required of the music education major for
eight semesters (attending six concerts per semester), except during
Student Teaching: K-12 (Education 455). Failure to meet all recital
attendance requirements results in a half a letter grade (5 points)
reduction in every music class final average for the semester.
These courses will count toward both the undergraduate degree (beyond the 128 hour requirement) and for the Master of Education at Milligan College. If the courses are taken for graduate credit there will be graduate level objectives and assignments. These courses will replace the following required courses in the Master of Education degree program: Students seeking licensure in vocal music take only EDUC 534 and 535 and two electives in their graduate program. Taking these courses would permit music education students to complete a Master of Education program in 12 months beyond their undergraduate program. For additional information contact the Director of Teacher Education or Area Chair for Education. Praxis Exams: *The above Praxis exams will count as the Major Field Test required for graduation. Milligan College Library also has an available copy of the Praxis study booklet.
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What is your vocation? Students who select the Music Education major is planning a career in teaching music. Planning to pursue the Master of Education program? Taking available courses would permit music education students to complete a Master of Education program in 12 months beyond their undergraduate program. |