Bachelor of Music [B.Mus] [Music Performance - Voice] From DePaul University

Students will be able to:

• Perform with acceptable tone quality, pitch and rhythmic accuracy, dynamic control, articulation, and expressiveness.
• Participate in a musical ensemble, with appropriate technique and musicality.
• Identify and analyze the elements of music in a given piece, including an understanding of its compositional processes, aesthetic properties, and artistic, social, and historical context.
• Identify significant composers and works in the Western music tradition, and trace the evolution of musical styles through the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods in jazz and select world music cultures.
• Hear, notate, analyze, and perform music through aural skills, sight-singing, and keyboard skills.
• Demonstrate basic conducting knowledge and skills for both instrumental and vocal settings.
• Develop an expanded global awareness and cultural understanding through musical study
• Describe basic information about health and safety within the contexts of practice, performing, teaching, and listening; topics will include hearing, vocal, and musculoskeletal health and injury prevention.