Training
•Bullet: Applied study is 16 hours (two hours each semester), compared with 28 to 32 for the Performance degree; voice majors add diction, and instrumentalists take instrumental ensembles with corequisite chamber music
•Bullet: Students interested in Musical Arts apply with the same materials and standards as performance applicants
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: The Bachelor of Musical Arts requires 126 credit hours, at least 63 in music and 18 in a specific discipline outside music: a minor or major in another school, a pre-professional course of study such as pre-med or pre-law, or a self-designed interdisciplinary area; students declare it no later than the 10th day of the first semester of the junior year
•Bullet: Blair describes the degree as available in any orchestral instrument, piano, saxophone, euphonium and voice, and Musical Arts students can complete a second major in the chosen outside field
