Program: Performance Emphasis: 35-37 Hours - Belmont University

Apr 03, 2025

Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

The Commercial Music Major provides a broad musical base for students who wish to pursue careers in the commercial music industry. The Performance Emphasis prepares students to be performers in a variety of commercial music styles.

Students must be confirmed in the Major in Commercial Music - Performance Emphasis at the end of the fourth semester applied jury.

Course Requirements

MUT 3330 Commercial Music Analysis 3 Hours
MPR 40_ Full Music Recital 0 Hours

Take one of the following courses:

MBU 3720 Public Relations in the Music Industry 3 Hours
MBU 4800 Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry 3 Hours

Select one of the four following principal areas:

Voice Major: 28 Hours

MPA 2201 Applied Classical Voice (3 semesters) 6 Hours ⁽³⁾
MPA 2101 Applied Classical Voice (1 semesters) 1 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSM 2001 Classical Voice Seminar (4 semesters) 0 Hours ⁽³⁾
MPA 2102 Applied Commercial Voice (1 semester) 1 Hour⁽³⁾
MPA 4302 Applied Commercial Voice (4 semesters) 12 Hours ⁽³⁾
MBA 3030 Commercial Vocal Styles I - Jazz 1 Hours
MAA 1060 Diction & Song Literature I (English and Italian) 1 Hours
MBA 3040 Commercial Vocal Styles II - Pop 1 Hours
MBA 3050 Commercial Vocal Styles III - Country 1 Hours
MBA 3060 Singers’ Aural Charting Lab 1 Hours
MUC 3180 Studio Singers 3 Hours

Keyboard and Instrumental Majors: 26 Hours

(excluding Electric Bass and Saxophone)

(Percussion principals take MBI 2010 Improvisation I and MBI 2030 Ethnic Percussion )

MPA 21__ Applied Classical (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSM 21__ Classical Seminar (4 semesters) 0 Hours
MPA 21__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MPA 43__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 12 Hours ⁽³⁾
MBI 2010 Improvisation I 1 Hours
MBI 2020 Improvisation II 1 Hours
MBI 3030 Commercial Instrumental Styles 1 Hours
MUC 3170 Studio Instrumentalist 3 Hours

Saxophone Majors: 28 Hours

MPA 21__ Applied Classical (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSM 21__ Classical Seminar (4 semesters) 0 Hours
MPA 21__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MPA 43__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 12 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSA 2127 Applied Classical Flute 1 Hour
MSA 2131 Applied Classical Clarinet 1 Hour
MAI 3070 Instrumental Seminar 0 Hours
MBI 2010 Improvisation I 1 Hours
MBI 2020 Improvisation II 1 Hours
MBI 3030 Commercial Instrumental Styles 1 Hours
MUC 3170 Studio Instrumentalist 3 Hours

Electric Bass Majors: 28 Hours

MPA 21__ Applied Classical (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSM 21__ Classical Seminar (4 semesters) 0 Hours
MPA 21__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 4 Hours ⁽³⁾
MPA 43__ Applied Commercial (4 semesters) 12 Hours ⁽³⁾
MSA 2120 Applied Commercial String Bass 2 Hours
MAI 3070 Instrumental Seminar 0 Hours
MBI 2010 Improvisation I 1 Hours
MBI 2020 Improvisation II 1 Hours
MBI 3030 Commercial Instrumental Styles 1 Hours
MUC 3170 Studio Instrumentalist 3 Hours

General Electives: 13 Hours (minimum)

(with 38-hour BELL Core)

Students in this major and emphasis have 13 hours of free electives unless they are saxophone or electric bass principals, who have 11 hours of free electives.