In 1998, the state's Enhanced Discipline Committee on Music (i.e., a representative from each of the four-year schools which grants a music degree) tried to find a way to meet the requirement that some courses in a student's major could be taken at a junior college and be guaranteed to be accepted at a senior college IF (that "if" is very important) he or she passed an entry audition and was admitted as a music major at the senior college.

This set of courses (plus foreign language) constitutes Area V in the Articulation Agreement. Since only a maximum of 23 hours could fit into Area V (and foreign language used up some of those 23), the number of hours remaining only left room for the following:

-8 hours music theory and aural skills

-5 hours studio (individual performance instruction)

-4 hours music ensembles OR additional studio

-6 hours in Arts and Sciences disciplines (i.e., foreign language at UA)

NOTE: Music majors may not use a music appreciation course to satisfy the Fine Arts requirement.

To restate this: as of Fall '99, if a transfer student auditions for admission to the School of Music and is accepted and if he/she presents the equivalent of freshman theory, a year of principal applied study, and a year of ensemble and secondary study, we will accept those credits and allow him/her to proceed to sophomore music courses. Acceptance of additional credits (sophomore theory, for example) would be entirely up to School of Music faculty and would be based on a locally administered examination.

(Carol Prickett, 8/17/99)

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