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Oct 28, 2025
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Undergraduate Catalog 2025-26
Music Performance: Instrumental Major (MUIJ)
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The Bachelor of Music - Music Performance: Instrumental Major is a professional degree for performers of Brass, Percussion, String, or Woodwind instruments. Admission to this program is by audition. No minor is required.
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I. WMU Essential Studies (37 hours)
II. Major Area of Concentration (34 hours)
Includes Applied Music and Performance Ensembles Applied Music (24 hours)
A total of 24 credit hours of Applied Music on your major instrument. The minimum number of total credit hours for each level is designated below. (Note: Sections designated for performance majors are three credits each semester.) Performance Ensembles (10 hours)
Major Ensemble (4 hours)
Students are required to complete four semesters of a major ensemble on their primary instrument (placement by audition): Chamber Music (2 hours)
A total of two credits hours selected from the following. Must be on the student’s primary instrument. Ensemble Electives (4 hours)
Remaining ensembles electives may be selected from the following: III. General Music Studies (40 hours)
Keyboard Fundamentals (2 hours)
Upper-level History/Theory (4 hours)
A minimum of 4 hours total, with at least 2 hours selected from the following list of Music History/Literature electives: Music Cognate Electives (5 hours)
Selected from any MUS course for which the student meets the course prerequisites. MUS 1000:5999 (excluding MUS 1500, MUS 1590, MUS 4500) Music Clearance (0 hours)
IV. Free Electives to make a minimum of 122 semester credit hours
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