Students who elect a music concentration will demonstrate a mastery in the following five areas:

• Aural literacy-defined as an ability to recognize the elements of musical language: pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and the ability to manipulate those elements in a coherent manner
• Stylistic literacy--the ability to recognize, analyze, and understand the genesis of the major stylistic periods
• Instrumental literacy--the ability to perform music in an expressive and stylistically appropriate manner at a reasonably advanced level
• Ensemble ability--the ability to work cooperatively towards a musical/interpretive goal with other musician
• Writing skills--the ability to write cogently about music