What are the majors in music?

There are six majors in music: vocal, instrumental, conducting, recording, composition, and music education.

Vocal Music Majors

The study direction of vocal music majors is generally divided into American singing, ethnic singing, and popular singing.

2. Instrumental Music Majors

The research directions of keyboard instrument performance are: electronic organ, accordion, and piano.

Ethnic instrument performance research direction: guqin, zheng, pipa, sanxian, liuqin, yangqin, zhongruan, erhu, banhu, flute, pipe, sheng, suona and so on.

3. Conducting majors

Generally divided into two directions: orchestra conductor and choral conductor

4. Music education majors

Music education majors mainly include music pedagogy, music psychology and music therapy.

5. Recording Major

This is a non-traditional music art major direction, compared with other music majors, recording art students in addition to the requirement of the ear sensitive to sound, but also to strengthen the understanding of music and feeling of the training to improve the sound recording, artistic processing, and sound (sound) design, audio program production capabilities.

6. Composition

Composition and Composition Technology Theory major is to cultivate a certain degree of musical literacy, and have a more comprehensive knowledge of music creation, ability and specialization, can be in the relevant literary and artistic units, art colleges and universities, scientific research institutions, as well as publishing, broadcasting, film and television departments engaged in the creation of compositions and compositions of technical theory, teaching, research, editing, and other aspects of the work of the senior It is a discipline for specialists.

Expanded:

Music Education

Music education has a difference between the broad sense and the narrow sense. Music education in the broad sense refers to any music to influence people's thoughts and feelings, thinking quality, enhance knowledge and skills of all education mainly refers to the school music education in accordance with certain social requirements, organized, planned and purposeful. School education can generally be divided into pre-school education, basic education, higher education, adult education and so on.

Music Education Core Curriculum

Music Theory, Sight Singing and Ear Training, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music (including Chinese and Foreign Instrumental Music), Harmony Fundamentals, Chinese and Foreign Music History, Music Appreciation, Choral Conducting, Songwriting, Song Analysis, Introduction to Art, Stage Performance, Dance, Introduction to Music Education, Philosophy of Music Education, Pedagogy, Psychology, and Music Therapy.

The main practical sessions include: graduation internship, music research and picking, art practice (exhibition), career guidance, graduation design (thesis, concert).

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia of Music Education