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The Bachelor of Musical Arts provides a concentrated focus in music with a complementary secondary emphasis in a non-music discipline. This degree is typically pursued by those interested in string studio teaching or in continuing to graduate studies in music history, conducting, or composition. One has a wide range of career options depending on the secondary choice of study.
Highlighted Career Paths
Graduates with a degree in Musical Arts have a wide array of rewarding careers before them. Check out some of the top careers students get with this degree or explore more career options in I-Plan.
Music Therapist
Music Therapists provide therapeutic treatment to clients through music. You will create treatment plans for clients depending on their needs. Set and establish appropriate goals for each patient in music treatments. While BYU-Idaho does not have a certifying program in Music Therapy, we offer many relevant courses that can prepare a student to certify within a year or two at another institution.
Composer
Composers provide musical scores for films, television, and video games as well as write music for musical ensembles of all types and sizes. They also often make arrangements and/or orchestrations of existing music to fit different occasions and ensembles.
Music Administrator
Music administrators work with music and other arts organizations to plan, organize, and produce musical events of all types, including orchestra, band and choral concerts, operas, musicals, shows, and other popular musical events. A student with a strong musical background whose secondary emphasis was in business, finance, public relations, or media would be well suited to work in this field.
Getting Started in this degree
If you are interested in Musical Arts, start with one of the following major-specific courses.
Students are required to participate in an ensemble each semester.
Students are required to participate in an ensemble each semester.
Related Majors
If you have a love for jazz music, consider the Jazz Studies degree. You will get to learn a variety of jazz instruments, participate in recitals, and study the jazz genre.
The Department of Music offers a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies with full and adjunct faculty for every jazz instrument, a Jazz Society, and opportunity to get off campus.
In this degree, students prepare for a career as a professional musician focusing on the pipe organ. Student organists will develop their skills as they practice and perform in recitals, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and campus devotionals.
Students will practice and improve the skills they learn in music theory, piano skills, and music history. Students will also develop capabilities in both working independently and collaboratively in performing.
BYU-Idaho offers a comprehensive string education, granting baccalaureate degrees in performance, pedagogy and secondary education, with opportunities to participate in artistically satisfying and diverse performing ensembles.
Students will master core processes, elements, form, structures and styles of music. Students will also develop abilities to collaborate, perform individually, and perform in an ensemble. Students will improve their talents and learn to share them with others.
Through this degree, you will learn to collaborate with many different people to create a unifying piece of music. You will learn important skills in music along with different processes, elements, form, structure, and styles of music.
The Bachelor of Music in Education (BMED) is a professional degree designed to prepare students for a music teaching career specializing in band, orchestra, or choir. Students will prepare to qualify for a K-12 teaching certificate. Students are given opportunities to teach in local schools, a university ensemble, in addition to a full semester of student teaching as the culminating experience.
The Bachelor of Music in Education (BMED) is a professional degree designed to prepare students for a music teaching career specializing in orchestra, choir, or band. Students will prepare to qualify for a K-12 teaching certificate. Students are given opportunities to teach in local schools, including a full semester of student teaching as the capstone experience.
You will master the core processes, elements, form, structures, and styles of music in this degree. In relation to your choral emphasis, you will also develop your vocal skills, along with how to help others improve their own.