If you’re a performer or composer who is self-motivated, on a mission, and wants to fast-track your career, dive into this three-year, music-intensive program. You’ll benefit from working alongside graduate students and professional musicians in ensembles, performance, and repertory courses—and if you decide to pursue your Master of Music degree, you’ll graduate in five years rather than six.
School-wide requirements for the Undergraduate Diploma
- Undergraduate Theory (24 credits, taken over 6 semesters)
- Music History, including 20th- and 21st-century History and Analysis (8 credits, taken over 4 semesters)
- Form and Analysis (4 credits, taken over 2 semesters)
- Counterpoint (2 credits, 1 semester)
- Introduction to Eurhythmics (2 credits, taken over 2 semesters)
- Improvisation (1 credit, 1 semester, to be selected from the list of improvisation distribution requirements).
- In addition, all Undergraduate Diploma candidates must participate in the Teaching Artist Program (1 credits, 1 semester), during their third or fourth year of study, and pass a proficiency examination in piano.
- For students in performance departments, a promotional jury demonstrating satisfactory progress in the major instrument must be passed at the end of the first, second, and third years of study. The fourth year culminates in a Diploma recital for performance majors and a public performance of a medium-scale work for composers.
Major Areas
Brass and Woodwinds
Organ
Piano
Strings
Vocal Studies
Composition
Level: Undergraduate
Normal Program Length and Credits: 3 years, 74-86 credits required for graduation.
*Longy will accept an undergraduate class of students to begin in Fall 2023. We will suspend undergraduate applications beyond that date.
