Music
The music program at NMHU offers a variety
of options to meet the needs of students
with personal or pre-professional interests in
music. A wide range of choral and instrumental
ensembles provide students from all areas
of the campus with opportunities to participate
in active music making. These include
the Concert Choir, Madrigal Choir (El Coro de la Tierra Alta), Jazz Choir, Pep Band, Chamber Orchestra, Guitar
Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and Mariachi,
(Vaqueros de la Sierra and Charros de Oro).
Other choral and instrumental ensembles are
offered as student interest dictates. Scholarship
opportunities include activity awards, the Lorraine Schula Scholarship, and the Lorenzo Miguel Gallegos Scholarship.
Students in the music program will become
proficient in the necessary skills of music performance
according to their particular choice
of instrument or voice, while acquiring a
thorough knowledge in the philosophy, aesthetics,
literature and history of music from
Western culture and from the Southwest.
They will be enabled to enter the teaching
profession with the requisite training and
knowledge to teach music at the elementary
and secondary levels.
Students wishing to pursue music studies in
more depth may select music as an Music Performance or Music Education. The music performance concentration
allows serious performers the opportunity to
develop appropriate technical skills in preparation
for a professional career as a musician.
The music education concentration prepares
music graduates for full licensure as K-12
music teachers in the public schools of New
Mexico, and throughout the region. Three
minors. Music Performance, Music Literature and History, and General Music are offered as options to further develop
musical skills. The music performance
minor allows for students to pursue serious
performance opportunities as soloists and as
members of university ensembles; it is open
to majors in music performance and music
education as well as to all other majors. The
music literature and history minor allows
students to pursue research into a variety of
music in terms of their cultural, social and
historical contexts: it is also open to majors in
music performance and music education as
well as to all other majors. The general music
minor is designed for students who have a
vocational interest in music as a supplement
to their principal studies at NMHU.
In addition, the music program cooperates
with other academic areas within the university
by providing opportunities for musical
training in conjunction with programs in
mass communications, anthropology, southwest
studies and languages and literature. |
