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This is where musicians become everything they’ve dreamed.

Our degrees span all music professions, from education to performance to therapy. We also have minors in music and jazz studies.

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B.M. in Music Performance

The bachelor of music in performance provides an opportunity for advanced performers— led by highly qualified instructors—to earn a degree in voice, winds, orchestral strings, piano, guitar, or percussion. Graduates of this program often find themselves accepted into prestigious graduate programs and continue to be active, respected performers and teachers.

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Program Highlights

  • Perform, with a high level of artistry, as a soloist and collaborating musician
  • A prestigious Purdue degree

Accreditation

Purdue University Fort Wayne is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music and the American Music Therapy Association.

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For more information about all the scholarships available at Purdue Fort Wayne—including opportunities for specific programs—you can visit the Office of Financial Aid or contact us at [email protected].

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Requirements and Curriculum Overview

Our comprehensive curriculum and diverse requirements will challenge you to go further than you ever imagined. Check out what you can expect as you advance through our program.

Music Performance (B.M.)

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this degree, students will be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:

  • The ability to perform with a high level of artistry as soloists and collaborating musicians in settings appropriate to their instrument of expertise
  • Knowledge of the pedagogy of their primary instrument and its literature

Upon completion of this degree, all School of Music students will be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:

  • Knowledge of music theory sufficient to analyze musical forms, structures, and styles to create within basic musical structures; and to relate theoretical concepts to sound
  • Performance ability as ensemble members, as conductors, and as soloists on both a primary instrument and a secondary instrument
  • Knowledge of history and literature of Western and non-Western music, with an understanding of the social, political, and cultural impacts that shaped music history
  • Proficiency in utilizing appropriate technology to notate and create music, to investigate and report scholarly research, and to support the specific demands of the professional degrees

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