Diploma
Details and Requirements
The Diploma is given upon completion of a minimum of 70 semester hours (s.h.), as outlined below. A minimum two-year residency is required.
General Requirements
Performance | 16 s.h. |
Major lesson | 16 s.h. |
Additional departmental requirements (listed below) | |
Musical Studies | 43 s.h. |
Core Studies I, II, III, IV | 12 s.h. |
Post-Tonal Harmony | 3 s.h. |
Form | 2 s.h. |
Keyboard Studies I, II, III, IV | 4 s.h. |
Supplementary Piano | 2 s.h. |
Solfege I, II | 8 s.h. |
Advanced Dictation | 2 s.h. |
Music History I, II | 8 s.h. |
Music History Elective | 2 s.h. |
(Some majors require additional performance and musical studies courses: See Additional Departmental Requirements, below.) |
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Career Studies | 1 s.h. |
Social Entrepreneur | 1 s.h. |
Liberal Arts | |
No specific requirements |
Additional Departmental Requirements
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Composition Majors
Performance 14 s.h. Composition Seminars 12 s.h. Supplementary Piano 2 s.h. Musical Studies 6 s.h. Applied Orchestration 4 s.h. Score-Reading 2 s.h. -
Keyboard Majors
(Major Requirements: P=Piano, O=Organ)
Performance 10 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. (P, O) Piano Repertoire Seminar 4 s.h. (P) Supplementary Piano 2 s.h. (O) Graduation Recital – Required (P, O) Organ Class 4 s.h. (O) Early Music Performance 4 s.h. Musical Studies 4 s.h. Keyboard Studies I, II 4 s.h. Career Studies 2 s.h. Sacred Music Seminar 2 s.h. (O) -
Orchestral Instrument Majors
(Major Requirements: T=Timpani/Percussion, Va.=Viola, Clo.=Cello, Vn.=Violin)
Performance 22 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. Orchestra 12 s.h. (age sixteen and older) Orchestral Repertoire Class/Sectionals 4 s.h. (string, woodwind, brass, or percussion) Performance – Required (T) Graduation Recital – Required Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani/Percussion -
Guitar Majors
Performance 8 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. Guitar Seminar 4 s.h. Graduation Recital – Required -
Voice Majors
Performance 28 s.h. Opera Stagings 12 s.h. Diction Coachings 4 s.h. Vocal Performance Seminar 4 s.h. Vocal Repertoire Coaching 8 s.h. Musical Studies 4 s.h. History of Singing 4 s.h.
Transfer Process from the Diploma Program to the Bachelor of Music Program
Diploma students who wish to transfer to the Bachelor’s Program must provide all required application documents by September 1 for a first-semester transfer, or by December 1 for a second-semester transfer.
Diploma students may take no more than two one-semester liberal arts courses prior to an official transfer to the bachelor’s program.
The GED will be accepted by Curtis as a supplement to evidence of exceptional academic achievement as part of the application for the bachelor’s program only when prior permission has been obtained from the dean, the registrar, the associate dean of student services, the chair of the liberal arts department, and the chair of the musical studies department. A permission form is available in the registrar’s office.