General Catalog 2022-2023

Music Education: Instrumental (BM)

The Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education: Instrumental offers the curricular content required by the Department of Education of Puerto Rico for Teacher Certification in Fine Arts with a specialization in Music Education: Instrumental, applicable to the elementary and secondary (K-12) levels. Graduates from the program also qualify as teacher in the Specialized Schools of Music.

The study program has been conceptualized under the firm conviction that the perception, understanding and sensitivity towards the art of music are fundamental in the formation of teachers committed to the evolution of music and its teaching. This formation is promoted by means of the study of the processes in the creation of music, including its history, literature, analysis techniques, its conducting and performance.

Participation in the creation of music of a high artistic value is an integral part of the study program. Students will have the opportunity to take individualized classes in their main instrument, and in a secondary instrument. They will also participate in chamber ensembles, and in larger ensembles like the Concert Band, the Choirs, or the University Symphony Orchestra.

The musical knowledge and skills are integrated with theory and practice in the music education courses, and in the education courses. The education courses deal with topics such as: techniques for choral or instrumental teaching, teaching methodologies, technology and teaching experiences.

Students entering the program will take a placement test in rudiments of music and in their instrument. This test must be approved more with a minimum of 70 percent; otherwise students must take preparatory courses. Preparatory courses exist for those students who need them.

All students in the Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education: Instrumental must comply with the admission requirements, the Satisfactory Academic Progress Norms, the graduation requirements established by the Teacher Education Program (TEP) and with the Music Practice Teaching requirements. Students in this major will take MUED 1091 instead of EDUC 1080, MUED 2080 for EDUC 2890, MUED 3080 for EDUC 3015 and MUED 4915 or 4916 for EDUC 4015.

The San Germán Campus is authorized to offer this Program.

Competencies Profile of Graduates

The Bachelor of Music in is designed to develop the competencies that will enable students to:

Knowledge

Demonstrate knowledge and understand:

  1. The materials, methodologies, curricular development and technologies to design significant educational experiences.
  2. The diverse techniques of musical arrangement.
  3. The processes to adapt music by using arrangement techniques for a variety of instrumental and vocal sets.
  4. The theoretical foundations and the appropriate auditory skills to harmonize music on the keyboard or the guitar.
  5. The main historical periods in the analysis, preparation of scores for practice and performance of representative repertoire of different styles, forms and cultures.
  6. The elements of music as they have evolved through different historical and cultural periods: tempo, melody, harmony, tone, texture and form.
  7. The process of musical composition, solving arguments on the esthetic properties and style of an ample selection of representative literature of the main eras, genres and composers.
  8. The music education curriculum for the elementary and secondary levels and their historical, philosophical, esthetic, methodological, psychological and educational foundations.
  9. The particular mechanisms of evaluation and assessment for the teaching of music, appropriate for the elementary and secondary levels.

Skills

  1. Interpret music at first sight with the exactitude necessary to contribute successfully to the development of the sets in which they participate and to use that knowledge as an indispensable tool when giving class and when selecting repertoire of different levels of difficulty.
  2. Develop their musical quality and the technical skills necessary to obtain an expressive musical performance, when presenting a repertoire of varied styles as a soloist, in sets and as a teacher in the classroom.
  3. Demonstrate the capacity to use their conducting technique as a means to effectively communicate an interpretation that is musical and aesthetically convincing.
  4. Fortify their skills on the piano keyboard and on the guitar, so that they can use both instruments as additional learning tools for themselves and in the design of experiences for their students in the classroom.
  5. Develop skills to take rhythmical, melodic and harmonic dictation.
  6. Demonstrate the use of advanced auditory skills that will allow them to read and sing the parts of a musical score for instrumental or vocal groups for analysis, preparation for practice or conducting.
  7. Organize successful practices for instrumental and vocal sets.
  8. Develop skills and the necessary technical knowledge in conducting, to take a score and to prepare it for practice, locating indicators that will allow for giving form to an appropriate interpretation.
  9. Perform an ample selection of repertoire.
  10. Use technology to strengthen the pedagogical and professional work.

Attitudes

  1. Form a good documented judgment on the capacity that the historical and cultural context has to influence the musical production of a country.
  2. Value Puerto Rican and Latin American music, its history and its musical genres, in the planning of a curriculum that includes a variety of musical experiences, such as playing, creating, listening, improvising, arranging and appreciating, among others.
  3. Show commitment with the scope of music education.
  4. Regard technology as a process, a tool able to extend their musical and creative capacities.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education: Instrumental

General Education Requirements 48 credits
Core Course Requirements 31 credits
Major Requirements 65 credits
Prescribed Distributive Requirements 6 credits
Elective Courses 3 credits
Total 153 credits

General Education Requirements - 48 credits

Forty-eight (48) credits of General Education are required for this Program. In addition to GEHS 2010, students will take GEHS 4020 or 4030 in the Historical and Social Context category. Students will take courses GEPE 4040 and GEPE 3010 or 3020 to fulfill the six credits required in the Philosophical and Esthetic Thought category.

Core Course Requirements - 31 credits

MUSI 1401Theory and Sight-Reading

2

MUSI 1461Piano: Group Class I

1

MUSI 1462Piano: Group Class II

1

MUSI 2411Harmony and Counterpoint I

3

MUSI 2412Harmony and Counterpoint II

3

MUSI 2470Keyboard Harmony

2

MUSI 3311Western Music: History and Literature I

3

MUSI 3312Western Music: History and Literature II

3

MUSI 3320History of Puerto Rican And Latin American Music

2

MUSI 3440Form and Analysis

3

MUSI 4431Orchestration and Arranging I

2

MUSI 4500Conducting I

3

MUED 4436Technology in Music Education

3

Note: Course MUSI 1401 requires courses MUSI 1111 and 1112 or the passing of a placement test.

Major Requirements - 65 credits

MUSI 1701-1892Instrument I, II

1-2 per course

MUSI 2701-2892Instrument III, IV

1-2 per course

MUSI 3701-3892Instrument V, VI

1-2 per course

MUSI 121Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

MUSI 122Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

 

MUSI 2091Chamber Ensemble I

1

Or

MUSI 221Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

 

MUSI 2092Chamber Ensemble II

1

Or

MUSI 222Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

 

MUSI 1231Concert Band I

1

MUSI 1232Concert Band II

1

MUSI 2231Concert Band III

1

MUSI 2232Concert Band IV

1

MUSI 3231Concert Band V

1

MUSI 3232Concert Band VI

1

MUSI 4231Concert Band VII

1

MUSI 4232Concert Band VIII

1

Or

MUSI 1251University Orchestra I

1

MUSI 1252University Orchestra II

1

MUSI 2251University Orchestra III

1

MUSI 2252University Orchestra IV

1

MUSI 3251University Orchestra V

1

MUSI 3252University Orchestra VI

1

MUSI 4251University Orchestra VII

1

MUSI 4252University Orchestra VIII

1

 

MUSI 4520Conducting II: Instrumental

2

EDUC 2021History and Philosophy of Education

3

EDUC 2022Society and Education

3

EDUC 2031Developmental Psychology

3

EDUC 2032Learning Psychology

3

EDUC 2870The Exceptional Student Population

4

EDUC 4011Evaluation and Assessment

3

EDUC 4050Curriculum Design

2

EDUC 4551Integration of Basic Knowledge and Communication Skills

1

EDUC 4552Integration of Professional Skills

1

MUED 1091Field Experiences in Music Education I

1

MUED 2080Field Experiences in Music Education II

2

MUED 3080Clinical Experiences in Music Education

2

MUED 3330Strategies and Techniques of Musical Instruments I: String

2

MUED 3331Strategies and Techniques of Musical Instruments II: Percussion

2

MUED 4401Elementary Methods: The Teaching of Music

3

MUED 4411Secondary Methods: The Teaching of Music

3

MUED 4916Student Teaching in Music: Instrumental

4

HIST 3010Historical Process of the United States of America

3

Prescribed Distributive Requirements - 6 credits

Six (6) credits selected from the following courses:

MUED 3332Instrumental Strategies and Techniques III: Metals

2

MUED 3333Instrumental Strategies and Techniques IV: Wind-Wood

2

 

MUSI 2093Chamber Ensemble III

1

Or

MUSI 321Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

 

MUSI 2094Chamber Ensemble IV

1

Or

MUSI 322Applied Music for Non-Majors

1

 

MUSI 2011Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Instruction I

2

MUSI 2012Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Instruction II

2

MUSI 2013Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Instruction III

2

MUSI 2014Chamber Ensemble and Vocal Instruction IV

2

MUSI 3130Popular Music Workshop I

1

MUSI 3131Popular Music Workshop II

1

MUSI 3132Popular Music Workshop III

1

MUSI 3133Popular Music Workshop IV

1

MUSI 3975Special Topics

1 to 6

MUSI 4600Foundations of Audio-Recording

3