Department of Music

Accreditations

National Association of Schools of Music - Music (BA, BS, MM); Music/Performance (BMus); Music/Composition (BMus); Music Education (BME); Musical Theatre (BFA)
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Music Education (BME); Secondary Education/Music (MSEd)
Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation - Music Education (BME); Secondary Education/Music (MSEd)

Admission and Audition Requirements

Music degrees are designed to develop the student’s abilities for performance, public school certification for teaching, private teaching, or composition. These degrees also prepare students for graduate study in music.

Students desiring to pursue a BA, BMus, BME, or BS music major or minor must first audition for a committee of applied faculty in that student’s desired performance area.* This audition should take place during the semester prior to the first semester of enrollment in applied lessons. All students will be required to demonstrate, through successful completion of a Music Theory Entrance Exam, a rudimentary ability to relate musical sound to notation and terminology before beginning the theory and ear-training sequence.

All music majors must apply for formal admission to the degree program. This typically will occur at the end of the sophomore year, and must be completed before the student has finished 75 hours. In order to be admitted to the degree program, students must pass MUS 298 , the piano proficiency exam, and have a combined (Missouri State and transfer) GPA of at least 2.75 and a combined (Missouri State and transfer) GPA of at least 3.00 in Music courses. Students who have not been formally admitted to the degree program will be unable to enroll in 300-level and above applied study.

*Students pursuing the minor in either Composition or Recording Arts are not required to audition in a performance area.

Contact

Interim Department Head

Paula K. Paterson, EDD

Office

Ellis Hall, Room 200

Phone

417-836-5648

Email

Music@MissouriState.edu

Website

MissouriState.edu/Music

Faculty

Distinguished Professor

James Parsons, PhD

Professor

Lisa R. Casey, DMA
Carol L. Chapman, DMA Jeremy A. Chesman, DMA
Anne Marie Daehn, DMA
Jason M. Hausback, DMA David R. Hays, DM
Daniel S. Hellman, PhD
Jill L. Heyboer, DMA
Cameron F. LaBarr, DMA
Amy F. Muchnick, DMA
Michael F. Murray, DMA
Paula K. Patterson, EdD
Richard Todd Payne, DMA
Grant S. Peters, DMA
John S. Prescott, DMA
Allison M. Storochuk, DMA
Wei-Han Su, DMA
Chris A. Thompson, DM

Associate Professor

J. Scott Cameron, DMA
Andrew H. Homburg, PhD
Hye-Jung Hong, DMA
Christopher M. Kelts, DMA
Donald Bradley Snow, DMA

Assistant Professor

Matthew A. Boswell, PhD Daniel M. Ketter, DMA
Erin E. Plisco, DMA

Senior Instructor

Kyle J. Aho, MM
Vicky L. Scott, MSEd

Instructor

Martin T. Morrison, MM

Emeritus Faculty

Lloyd G. Blakely, DMA
Michael R. Casey, MME
Peter F. Collins, DMA
Julie C. Combs, DMA Randall P. Hamm, MM Wynne Harrell, DMA
William W. Hartman, MA
Jerry W. Hoover, MM
Johnnie W. Johnson, MM
Cynthia Green Libby, DMA
Norma D. McClellan, PhD
Mollie Autry Molnar, DMA
Michael A. Murray, DMA
Rose Mary Owens, PhD
Belva W. Prather, EdD
Robert C. Quebbeman, DMA
Robert M. Scott, MS