Department of Music
Student Outcomes Assessment
BASIC GOALS
Music Department
GOALS FOR ALL GRADUATES IN MUSIC
SKILLS
- Basic performance proficiency on at least one instrument.
- Basic proficiency in sight-singing.
- Proficiency in aural skills, including the ability to identify basic tonalities, meters, tonal and rhythmic functions, scales, intervals, harmonic progressions, traditional and non-traditional chordal structures, various compositional devices, standard musical forms, stylistic and expressive characteristics of performance, and characteristics of performance that support critical judgments.
- Abilities in historical studies, including the ability to analyze musical works in score or aurally for elements of style that determine historical placement.
- Ability to be articulate and convincing in writing and speaking about music.
KNOWLEDGE
- Knowledge of theoretical studies, including tonal harmony, counterpoint, voice-leading, notation, and analytical techniques.
- Knowledge of major style periods of music history, important composers (including their stylistic characteristics, major works, and basic biographical information), important musical forms, various performance media, instruments and instrumentation, and music other than western art music (e.g., jazz, world music, popular music, music of the theater, folk music).
- Knowledge of performance practice of varius styles, historical periods, and performance media.
VALUES AND ATTITUDES
- Awareness that music and its sister arts are fundamental to the human pursuit of pleasure, knowledge, and self-renewal.
- Awareness of a range of cultural and aesthetic differences in approaches to music and its sister arts.
FURTHER GOALS FOR GRADUATES IN PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC EDUCATION
SKILLS
- Ability to perform from notation on major instrument with technical and expressive skill, both as soloist and as ensemble member, in various styles and performance media.
- Ability to sight read with accuracy and proficiency on major instrument.
- Basic reading and performing proficiency on piano.
SPECIFIC GOALS FOR GRADUATES IN PERFORMANCE
SKILLS
- Professional-level technical and expressive skill on major instrument.
SPECIFIC GOALS FOR GRADUATES IN MUSIC EDUCATION
PERFORMANCE
- Basic proficiency in improvisation on major instrument.
- Ability to perform competently on at least one minor instrument.
- Basic proficiency in realizing a transposed score at the piano.
TEACHING AND REHEARSAL
- Ability to conduct with clarity, expression and proper style.
- Ability to identify performance errors and prescribe solutions.
- Basic knowledge of wind, percussion and string instruments.
- Ability to plan and manage efficient rehearsals.
- Ability to arrange and adapt musical materials for specific school groups.
- Familiarity with important repertoire appropriate for school performing groups.
PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES OF MUSIC EDUCATION
- Ability to express a coherent philosophy of music education.
- Ability to devise appropriate musical experiences to meet the needs of all students based on an understanding of music learning, as well as basic principles of child growth and development.
- Ability to write and implement effective music lesson plans with clearly stated goals, objectives and student competencies.
- Ability to select music for students of all age groups, abilities, and performing media.
SPECIFIC GOALS FOR GRADUATES IN THEORY/COMPOSITION
- All students graduate with a strong foundation and background in music theory. We expect every student to be able to proceed further to the graduate level and to not only pass remedial requirements but to also be able to function as a theory teaching assistant.
- That all composition students are practically equipped to deal with the realities of getting performances of their works.
- Theory students are similarly required to be practically equipped to enter into graduate study and the scholarly life by being required to produce a special project, usually a paper or article, which can be (and has been) delivered at scholarly conferences.
- All theory-composition students are expected to understand a variety of different media and approaches to theory and composition, including digital techniques, counterpoint, post-tonal theory, and orchestration.
Department of Music
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-0001
Telephone 505/277-2126
FAX 505/277-0708
e-mail sblock@unm.edu
