Home Resources Private Instruction Policy

• Private Instruction
• Convocation and Repertoire Class
• Applied Juries
• Upper Level Jury (Licensure and Composition)
• Upper Level Performance Examination (Performance Majors Only)
• Concert Attendance Policy

Private Instruction

Music Majors must enroll in Private Instruction each semester of full-time residency (except for the student teaching semester). Music Education (Licensure) majors must complete three (3) semesters of Private Instruction at Upper Division (3000 Level) before student teaching. Four (4) semesters of Upper Division (3000 Level) Private Instruction are required for Music Performance majors.

If a student wishes to change his/her area of performance emphasis (major instrument) within the Department, he/she may do so only with the approval of the student’s advisor and the private instruction professors. Upper Division requirements and proficiency standards must be met in the new area of performance emphasis.

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Convocation and Repertoire Class

All students enrolled in Private Instruction will participate in Convocation and Repertory Class as scheduled. The Department schedules Repertoire Classes and Convocations at 11:00 a.m. on selected Tuesday and Thursday mornings respectively and distributes a printed schedule at the beginning of each term. Convocation and Repertoire Class attendance is required and grades in Private Instruction reflect not only the student’s progress in the applied area, but also attendance at Repertoire Class and Convocation. In order to validate Convocation attendance, Attendance Slips are turned in at the door upon exiting Wattenbarger Auditorium.

Students performing in Convocation must submit a completed Convocation Form to the Convocation Coordinator as soon as the private instructor notifies the student they are to perform on Convocation. Placement on a Convocation program is on a first-come first-served basis.

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Applied Juries

All music majors appear before a faculty jury at the end of each semester for a final examination in the applied area of private instruction. Music Education (Licensure) majors appear before faculty members from the area of concentration. Music Performance majors appear before the Performance Committee. Each student, regardless of major, signs for a jury time on the posted schedule. Before the jury performance, the student completes the appropriate Jury Form and makes copies of the completed Form for each examining faculty member.

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Upper Level Jury (Music Licensure and Composition majors)

All music licensure and composition majors must pass an Upper Level Jury at the end of the fourth semester and before enrolling in Upper Division (3000 Level) private instruction. Before the jury performance, the student completes the appropriate Jury Form and makes copies of the completed Form for each examining faculty member.

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Upper Level Performance Exam (Performance Option Majors)

All Performance Option majors must pass the Upper Level Performance Exam at the end of the fourth semester of study and before enrolling in Upper Division (3000 Level) private instruction. The student must successfully complete all portions of the exam to pass. A student cannot retake a failed Upper Level Performance Exam until the end of following semester and must use new music. Failing the Upper Level Performance Exam three (3) times constitutes exclusion from the Music Performance degree. Before the jury performance, the student completes the appropriate Jury Form and makes copies of the completed Form for each examining faculty member.

Composition students will exam via CD or videotape.

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Concert Attendance

All music majors must attend twelve (12) recitals or concerts each semester of full-time residency (except for the student teaching semester). Students receive an attendance card each semester. After each attended concert, the card is stamped by the concert attendant, and the attendee records the date.

For performances in which the student is a participant (other than Convocation performances), the faculty member in charge will initial the appropriate space for the event.

At the end of each semester, the student returns the attendance card to the private instructor at Applied Juries. Deficient cards, or cards received after the private instructor has submitted the Final Recorded Grade, will result in the student receiving an “I” grade in Private Instruction. To rectify a grade of “I”, the total number of recitals recorded at the end of the next semester must equal 24 for both semesters combined. The student must rectify an “I” within an academic year or it will automatically revert to a grade of “F”. An “I” received in the semester of graduation will be treated as an “F” by the Office of Student Records.

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