Areas & Programs of Study in Music


The Music Department at Geneseo offers a number of academic programs in a  variety of music disciplines that students may pursue either as tracks within the Music BA, as academic minors, or as microcredentials (ICMs or SUNY certificates).

The department offers a single Music BA with all students selecting one of the tracks below. Regardless of track, all students complete the same core coursework in musicianship and critical methods in addition to completing specialized study in their discipline. Certain tracks require an audition or have further eligibility requirements as indicated with an asterisk (*). For information on individual programs and their requirements, follow the links (§) in the table below.

Visit our Musical Theatre Pages for more information about our programs in Musical Theatre. 

Area of Study
BA track
minor
ICM
Music Performance*

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Music Education*

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Music Business, Recording, & Production

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Music History, Theory, & Ethnomusicology (HiTEC)

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Jazz & American Music Studies

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Composition (HiTEC)

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Conducting*

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Piano Pedagogy  

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General Music   §