Bachelor [Music] From University of Rhode Island

Students can be admitted to the B.M. degree program only after a successful audition in the principal applied music area and should contact the Department of Music for specific requirements. Transfer credits in music theory, music history, and performance must be validated by placement examination.All Bachelor of Music students must successfully complete Option I or Option II of the piano proficiency requirement. In Option I, students must pass all seven piano proficiencies by the end of their junior year. Piano proficiency examinations before the faculty examination committee are scheduled on a regular basis during the fall and spring semesters.Students selecting Option I will need to demonstrate the following seven piano proficiencies by the end of their junior year: 1) Five-finger patterns, playing a vocal warm-up sequence, hands together; 2) scales, playing two-octave major scales up to three sharps and flats, and one-octave minor scales in all three forms up to three sharps and flats, hands together, by memory at a tempo of M.M.=144 per note; 3) transposition, transposing at sight two melodies selected by the examination committee, students will be asked to transpose the melodies up or down by either a half step or whole step; 4) harmonization, reading two melodies taken from any major or minor key chosen by the examination committee, improvising suitable accompaniments for the melodies by using diatonic triads and secondary dominants, and reading from chord symbols; 5) patriotic songs, playing America and The Star-Spangled Banner in a manner suitable for accompanying community or school singing; these accompaniments are to be prepared in advance; 6) sight-reading, playing at sight selections chosen from a simple accompaniment part and/or beginning-level solo scores; and 7) repertoire, playing two prepared piano pieces by contrasting composers; each piece must be approved in advance by a member of the piano faculty or an instructor of class piano(piano majors are exempt from #7).Music Composition.Students selecting the music composition option must complete seven semesters of applied composition Music Education. See “Teacher Education Programs” in Preprofessional Preparation and “Admission Requirements” in Education for admission requirements for teacher education programs. Completing all requirements in the music education option leads to an initial teaching certificate for music in grades K-12. Students selecting this option must complete 89 credits in Studies in Music and Professional Education,