Music with Concentration in Music Industry, BS

Students graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Music with concentration in Music Industry are expected to have acquired the following competencies:

Music Industry Related Skills

• Apply and analyze the basic copyright protections afforded to authors, publishers and master recording owners.
• Explain and apply industry-related contracts and agreements.
• Discuss the application of music industry services and products and explain the resources necessary to identify demographic groups who would most benefit by access to the services and products.
• Assess the dynamics of the music industry, including the issues that relate to revenue generation.
• Discuss current established Industry players and institutions and to predict future music industry trends and developments.
• Assess and identify creative talents.
• Build teams to formulate effective entrepreneurship plans in the Music Industry, and to function as a leader of the team.
• Construct websites, music delivery systems, and related on-line access to intellectual property by applying one’s knowledge of web design software, video editing software, and music production technologies.
• Analyze a variety of expenses and revenue streams associated with the publishing, distribution, licensing, production and marketing of musical products, services and intellectual property.
• Produce and critique industry-related contracts and agreements.
• Demonstrate mastery of music notation and theory to a level of competency that will allow the student to communicate in musical terms with professional musicians.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how the use of various musical elements shapes the styles and effectiveness of various modes of popular music.
• Engage in in-depth discussion of the important historical periods in music history from the Baroque Era to the present day.
• Engage in detailed discussion of established aesthetics and movements in contemporary Western classical music.
• Demonstrate familiarity with compositional processes, aesthetic properties of style, and the ways these shape and are shaped by artistic, cultural, societal and political forces.
• Demonstrate an acquaintance with the musical practices from reflecting genres, cultures and ethnicities beyond the European/North American “classical” canon.