Introduction
This 4-year B.A. Music degree provides a broad musical education across Western classical and Persian forms and styles. Students can specialize in a music performance area while they explore and learn about aspects of the history, composition, and technology in music. The program provides opportunities to understand, participate in, and enjoy music for Baháʼí music students and gives insight that fosters the development of music and the arts in the country.
Vision
Our music curriculum aims to provide all students with a high-quality music education which engages and inspires them to develop a life-long love of music, increases their self-confidence, creativity, and imagination, and provides opportunities for self-expression and a sense of personal achievement. We offer opportunities for students to develop their talents in all aspects of music including performance, music theory, singing, and music appreciation in both Persian and classical music.
Mission
BIHE Department of Music seeks a dynamic learning environment that helps its members to value music not only as a field of education, but also as an essential expression of the human spirit. As this program is designed for Iranian Baháʼí students, it focuses on improving communication and technical skills that develop an analytical, creative, and deep understanding of music as a cultural language.
Goals and Objectives
The goals and objectives of this program are to:
- provide a professional education for music majors that develops, nurtures, and assures their competency in all aspects of the discipline
- encourage development of the creative, intuitive, and intellectual capabilities of students, faculty, and audiences
- support collaborations between music and related disciplines, and to cultivate and apply new approaches to performance, scholarship, and education
- enable students to demonstrate competence in content-based areas of music history, theory, pedagogy, music technology, and analysis.
- enable students to demonstrate competence in skill-based areas of ear training/sight singing, improvisation, composition, keyboard competency, and conducting.
Admission
The audition of the B.A. in music in BIHE is based on solfege, history and theory of western music, theory and history of Persian music, obligatory piano (except pianists), and principal instrument. Students are required to achieve a mark of 65 or above in each of the exam categories; otherwise, students’ conditional admission will be reviewed by the music department. If the students achieve a mark between 50 to 65 for the instrumental/vocal exam and 30 above in Solfege exam, they will be accepted to pass a Foundation Year Program consisting of the following courses enabling them to strengthen their capabilities to apply to B.A. of Music in the following year.
- MUS1131 Music Appreciation I (3 credit hours)
- MUS1141 Piano as a Second Instrument I (3 credit hours)
- MUS1151 Sol-Fa and Dictation I (3 credit hours)
- MUS1161 Individual Instruction I (3 credit hours)
- MUS1780 Iranian Music Appreciation (3 credit hours)
- MUS1132 Music Appreciation II (3 credit hours)
- MUS1142 Piano as a Second Instrument II (3 credit hours)
- MUS1152 Sol-Fa and Dictation II (3 credit hours)
- MUS1162 Individual Instruction II (3 credit hours)
- MUS1785 Iranian Music Appreciation II (3 credit hours)