音乐文学学士

通过在积极表现和学术追求之间取得平衡，LMU的音乐系是一个充满活力，热情和目标感的真正充满活力的学习场所。凭借一流的设施和每年超过30场的现场表演和活动，我们邀请我们的学生在合奏和独奏方面表现出色，发展音乐制作和领导才能，并在正式写作中达到较高的学术水平，分析能力，以及口头交流。该系主要致力于古典培训和音乐，集中研究器乐研究，人声研究，理论/作曲，音乐学，民族音乐学和指挥。
LMU's Music major provides quality instruction for students who wish to pursue music as a career or enrich their lives through music study or performance.<br><br>The Music major provides a balanced program that includes musicianship, historical perspectives, and musical performance. Students receive individual attention from professors via small classes and private lessons in voice, piano, guitar, strings (violin, viola, cello and double bass) and percussion.<br><br>The Department of Music prides itself on its ensembles. The department's large ensembles are the LMU Choruses, Sinatra Opera Workshop, LMU Chamber Orchestra, and World Music Ensembles (West African and Balinese Gamelan). Smaller groups are the String, Guitar and Mixed Chamber ensembles. The highly acclaimed LMU Choruses, made up of the Consort Singers, Women's Chorus and Concert Choir, tour domestically and internationally.<br><br>The music curriculum is a rigorous program that combines learning about the structure and story of music with opportunities to perform great music. Music majors develop the physical coordination and technical skills required for specific musical activities, such as vocal and instrumental performance or conducting. Students learn to apply essential principles of music theory and form to the study and evaluation of musical scores. They also develop the creative skills to create their own compositions.<br><br>Music majors examine the historical evolution of Western music as evidenced by style periods, performance practices, and representative composers and their works. Majors also study music as a cultural phenomenon, seen in its interrelationship with belief systems, life ways and language.