Dr. Alcingstone Cunha, Dean
Campbellsville University, UPO 792, 1 University Drive, Campbellsville, KY 42718
aocunha@campbellsville.edu 270.789.5340
School of Music Mission Statement
The School of Music at Campbellsville University serves as a vital part of the University, focusing on music training while promoting creative and professional work in music. The School of Music offers music programs that align with the University’s mission, core values, and goals.
The School of Music aims to broaden the education of every student at the University by providing a wide range of experiences in music; offering class instruction that develops an understanding of music as a communicative art, its role in life, and its value to the individual; and providing specialized training in musical skills.
The School of Music promotes the development of students preparing for careers as professional performers, teachers, or church musicians by offering competency-based courses that establish a technical and broad cultural foundation. These courses equip music students in their specific fields of interest and pursuit.
The School of Music guides students in attaining academic, spiritual, vocational, cultural, and social values through professional training, musicianship, and the liberal arts concept.
Graduate Degrees Offered by School of Music
The Graduate Programs in the School of Music aim to cultivate professional skills and promote productive scholarship among students. The curricula are designed to foster a comprehensive understanding of both historical and current developments in the field and to prepare students to contribute to the advancement of their respective disciplines.
Campbellsville University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).
Master of Arts in Music (MAM)
The Master of Arts in Music is designed to provide students with a broad range of musical coursework, without a specialization.
Master of Arts in Music: Musicology
The design of the Master of Arts in Music with an emphasis in Musicology focuses upon the historical periods of Western music history.
Master of Arts in Music: Worship
The Master of Arts in Music with an emphasis in Worship is designed to equip students further to face the needs of today’s Christian Church.
Master of Music (MM)
Four Concentration areas available: Conducting, Instrumental Performance, Piano Performance & Pedagogy, and Vocal Performance & Pedagogy
Master of Music: Conducting
The Master of Music in Conducting degree program is designed for students with exceptional conducting skill planning for a professional performance-based career as a conductor.
Master of Music: Instrumental Performance
The Master of Music in Instrumental Performance concentration (MMIP) is designed for students with exceptional skill in winds, strings, or percussion, who seek a career in professional performance or collegiate teaching.
Master of Music: Piano Performance & Pedagogy
The Master of Music in Piano Performance & Pedagogy is intended to advance both the student’s musical and intellectual skills, as well as to prepare students to make significant contributions to the field of piano pedagogy.
Master of Music: Vocal Performance & Pedagogy
The Master of Music in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy is intended to advance both the student’s musical and intellectual skills, as well as to prepare students to contribute to the field of vocal pedagogy.
Master of Music in Music Education (MMME)
The Master of Music in Music Education degree is primarily intended for certified music educator having a Rank III teaching certificate, who are required, if teaching in the State of Kentucky, to attain the Master’s level (Rank II) certification. The degree can also assist non-certified musicians who have a bachelor’s degree to prepare for further studies in doctoral programs and college-level teaching. This degree does not certify individuals for public school teaching in the elementary or secondary schools unless Rank II certification was previously earned.
Artist Diploma
The Artist Diploma is a one-year professional program for instrumental, piano, or voice students. It is designed to enable students to expand their knowledge of repertoire, improve their technique, and further their performance skills and musical understanding. The program is designed to be flexible, allowing candidates to focus solely on performance and related studies.
Faculty and Staff
Dean of the School
Alcingstone Cunha, Ph.D.
B.M., North Brazil Baptist Theological Seminary; B.A., Pernambuco Federal University; M.M., Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Professor of Music: Worship, Conducting
Full-Time Faculty & Areas of Instruction
William H. Budai, Ph.D.
B.M., Central Michigan University; M.M., Bowling Green State University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Professor of Music: Piano, Piano Pedagogy
Chad Floyd, D.M.A.
B.M., Campbellsville University; M.M., Belmont University; M.E.L., Eastern Kentucky University; Ph.D. University of Kentucky
Professor of Music: Percussion
Clark Hunt, M.M.
B.A., Jacksonville State University; M.M., Georgia State University
Assistant Professor of Music: Trumpet
Jooyoung Kim, D.A.
B.M., Yonsei University School of Music; M.M. Yonsei University School of Music; D.A. Ball State University
Assistant Professor of Music: Piano, Piano Performance
Lisa R. McArthur, Ph.D.
B.M. Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam College; M.M., M.A., Kent State University; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Professor of Music: Flute, Theory
Saulo Moura, D.M.A.
B.M., University of Rio de Janeiro; M.M., Florida International University; M.M., University of Louisville; D.M.A., University of Kentucky
Instructor in Music: Composition, Jazz Studies, Cello
Loida Pineda, Ph.D.
B.T., Colegio San Augustin; B.B.Adm, Instituto Comercial Bancario; M.M., Universidad Anahua; M.M., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; D.M.Ed., Indiana University
Assistant Professor of Music: Music Education
Denis Santos, D.M.A.
B.A., Ceará State University; M.M., Campbellsville University; D.M.A., University of Kentucky
Assistant Professor of Music: Woodwind Area
Support Staff
Jacquie Miller
B.A., Western Kentucky University; M.M.C.M., Campbellsville University
Kaleb Trent
B.S.B.A., Campbellsville University; M.B.A., Western Governors University
Admission to the Music Graduate Program
Admissions criteria that will be reviewed using a holistic procedure are the following. Specific degrees may have additional requirements.
1. Possession of a bachelor’s degree in music, or permission from the Graduate Music Admissions Committee.
2. Submission of two letters of recommendation including one from an individual who can speak to the applicant’s academic and/or professional capabilities or potential.
3. Submission of official transcripts of all college work from accredited institutions (both undergraduate and graduate) confirming a minimum GPA 2.75 on a 4.0 scale overall, including professional education courses, if applicable, and in the applicant’s undergraduate major or academic emphasis.
4. Completion of the application form, including an essay that discusses the applicant’s interest in and commitment to graduate study.
5. Presentation of an audition. A live audition is preferred; prior arrangement accepts recordings of recent live performances.
6. All applicants must pass an entrance examination in music theory and music history and literature and take appropriate steps to remediate any deficiencies.
7. Master of Music in Music Education applicants must submit a copy of the teaching certificate (if applicable).
8. International students are required to submit English proficiency test scores as part of their admissions requirements unless they are from an English-speaking country, hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college, or have completed at least six credit hours of graduate coursework at a regionally accredited college. Campbellsville University accepts the following English proficiency exam results. The minimum online proctored test score required is listed below for each exam:
- TOEFL 79
- IELTS 6.0
- Pearson 53
- Duolingo 100
Auditions
Students applying for a music degree must audition before a panel of graduate music faculty members. This performance must demonstrate competence and is evaluated by the faculty based on the individual’s ability and potential. Prospective students who are unlikely to succeed will not be admitted to a music degree program. If some potential is evident, the student may be admitted provisionally, with the understanding that they demonstrate significant progress in the area(s) of weakness during the first semester of study. After this period, a re-evaluation will occur. Students who demonstrate sufficient ability and potential will be admitted unconditionally. Auditions will be held each semester, no later than the final day to register for a class as specified by the University.
Auditions for Performance Degrees
Applicants seeking admission to the MM: Instrumental Performance, MM: Piano Performance & Pedagogy, or MM: Vocal Performance & Pedagogy will submit a list of performed repertoire and present a live audition before a panel of graduate music faculty members.
Keyboard & Instrumental: The audition should be at least 20 minutes of music or a minimum of two works in contrasting styles.
Vocal: The audition should be by memory and at least 20 minutes of upper-level repertoire representing each of the following areas: Baroque literature, German lieder, French melodie, opera aria, and American or British art song.
Composition: Students who wish to pursue composition as their primary applied area at the master’s level will submit two recent pieces representing different performance media and post-1900 musical styles. Students will present an essay with each composition providing specific details about the composers and works that have provided inspiration or models. The essay will also include detailed information about the techniques and procedures that went into the works, using terms and concepts learned in the student’s undergraduate theory coursework such as Music Theory, Form and Analysis, Orchestration, Counterpoint, and Choral Arranging.
Each composition and essay will be submitted in a three-ring binder and will include a printed copy of the score along with a sound recording. Recordings of live performances will be preferable, but recordings from the computer will be acceptable. The materials will be evaluated by a panel of three or more members of the music faculty. The committee will complete an approval form which will be placed in the student’s academic folder.
Auditions for MM Conducting
Applicants will come to campus the semester before enrollment and conduct an ensemble rehearsal as their live audition. However, students may also submit recordings of recent live performances in which they are leading an ensemble. The video angle should preferably focus on the conductor and be from the ensemble’s view of the conductor.
Entrance Exams
Applicants to graduate music programs must pass an Entrance Exam before beginning graduate coursework. The Entrance Exam must be taken only once and during regularly scheduled exam time. The exam includes music theory and music history and literature. A minimum passing score is 70% in each area. Students who do not pass in either area on the review are required to take remedial coursework before beginning regular graduate studies in music theory and music history. This remediation may be undertaken by enrollment in MUS 498 Survey of Western Music History and/or MUS 499 Essentials of Music Theory. Credits earned in completing the remedial courses do not count toward the degree.
Requirements for the Music Graduate Program
- The program requires successfully completing 32 semester hours of credit, as specified in the applicant’s degree plan.
- No grade below B- will be allowed. The candidate must also have an overall 3.0 grade-point average for graduation.
- A maximum of 6 semester hours of graduate credit may be transferred from other accredited graduate institutions if those credits match the course requirements of the graduate program. The Graduate Music Admissions Committee will approve transfer credits after examining the transcript (accompanied by appropriate documentation).
- A maximum of 6 hours may be taken by appointment. No letter grade below a “B” will be considered for transferability into graduate programs.
- The graduate student will be required to write a thesis of 35 to 50 pages, present a recital lasting 40 to 60 minutes as specified in the respective degree plan, write a Capstone Project, or complete a supervised practicum. A final comprehensive examination is also required.
- Each full-time resident graduate student is required to participate in a University-sponsored performing organization, regardless of the music scholarship requirements.
Recital & Concert Attendance
Students are expected to attend concert and recital opportunities both at the University and in the community. While not required to attend recitals, graduate students are expected to support their peers and exercise professional development and attitudes by attending concerts regularly. (Policy revised Sept. 2010).
Proper attire is required for all musical events whether performing or attending.
A Calendar of Events is posted on the School of Music bulletin board and is also available on the School of Music website.
Recital Performance
Studio Labs
Applied students as a group meet with their instructor in weekly Studio Labs. Students should perform a piece in labs before performing it on General Recital. Applied piano students have Piano Repertory Hour; thus, they will be free to accompany students at labs and General Recital.
Piano Repertory Hour: Wednesdays, 4 p.m., GRH
Studio Labs: Tuesdays, 2 p.m.
Student Recitals
General Recital
All music students taking applied music will perform at least once a semester on an afternoon General Recital. Performances should be limited to 5-6 minutes and must include all instrumentation as indicated in the musical score. Performers must fill out a General Recital registration form by 5:00 p.m. on the day before the recital.
Graduate Recital Planning & Scheduling
Students presenting a Graduate Recital as their culminating project should work with their applied instructors and accompanists when planning a recital.
Recital Hearings
Hearings for graduate recitals will occur approximately one month before the recital date. The applied instructor is responsible for scheduling a time and securing at least two other faculty members for the hearing panel. The student will bring to the hearing a typed list of the recital music, one copy for each faculty member, with room for comments after each piece.
Hearings may be judged as passed, probational (with specific requirements), or failed. Suppose a hearing is deemed probational or failed; in that case, the student and applied instructor will jointly determine the course of action to complete the hearing successfully. A recital hearing may be re-presented a maximum of two times (Policy adopted Spring 2014).
Accompanist honoraria must be paid to the music office by the hearing date. Failure to do so may result in the hearing being postponed.
Recital Programs
The guidelines for graduate recital programs are as follows:
- No program shall use any illustration or caricature.
- Programs shall use Times New Roman font.
- Paper for programs shall be selected from the normal range of colors available in the Music Office.
- Acknowledgments may only appear on senior and graduate recital programs and shall be limited to four lines of text as laid out on the program. They may cite only parents, spouses, other immediate family members, and professors involved in the recital preparations.
- Titles of compositions shall include complete and accurate information in the appropriate citation style.
- Composers shall be listed by full name with birth and death years in parentheses or birth year only if the composer is still living. Example: (b. 1949)
- The School of Music secretary shall enforce the guidelines for recital programs in consultation with the appropriate applied professors and the Dean of the School of Music.
- Program notes should be included in all programs.
- The applied professor bears primary responsibility for the precise nature and content of program notes.
Program notes must be turned in to the School of Music secretary at least two business days before the recital. The applied instructor must approve all program notes.
Jury Examinations
Applied Juries
Graduate students studying applied music as a degree requirement are required to participate in a jury at the end of each semester. The jury performance block lasts eight minutes for vocalists and ten minutes for keyboardists and instrumentalists. It consists of one work selected by the student along with additional works chosen by the faculty from a repertoire list prepared during the semester. Jury panels include the student’s applied instructor and three other music faculty members.
For applied conducting students, a comprehensive video link will be submitted near the end of each semester of study, serving as the vocal/instrumental conducting jury that documents the student in both rehearsal and performance settings while conducting a live [chamber] ensemble.
Each student’s performance is evaluated through the performance itself, the evidence of developing technical and expressive skills, and overall progress. Each faculty member assigns a letter grade, which is then averaged among the panel members to determine a jury grade. The student’s final grade is determined by the applied instructor based on the jury grade and overall progress during the semester.
Jury examinations are not required once a student has completed the necessary credit hours in applied study, nor when applied study is taken as an elective. Additionally, a jury examination is typically not needed for the semester when a student presents a Graduate Recital.
Appointment sign-up sheets are posted prior to the first day of juries. Vocalists and instrumentalists are encouraged to communicate clearly with their accompanists when selecting a jury time.
Graduate Exit Exams
All graduate students must pass the Exit Exams, which should be taken during their final semester. If any part of the Exams is failed, the student must retake and pass the part(s) in an equivalent exam. The Graduate Exit Exams Coordinator will schedule the retake. In the event of a second failure, the student must wait until the next semester to retake the failed portions. Failure to pass any segment of the Comprehensive Exams after the third attempt will result in dismissal from the degree program. In this case, the student is ineligible to reapply for the same graduate degree program at any point in the future.
Part I: General Knowledge Exam
The General Knowledge Exam includes Music Theory and Music History/Literature. Both segments are graded on a pass/fail basis, and all graduate students must pass both. A minimum passing score of 80 points is required.
Part II: Specialty Exam
The specialty exam covers all coursework in the student’s concentration. It is graded on a pass/fail basis, and students must achieve a minimum score of 80 points to pass. For those on the thesis track, the oral defense serves as the final specialty exam.
Culminating Projects
All students enrolled in the MA: Music or MA: Worship must choose one of the tracks available in their respective degrees. Students enrolled in the MM: Conducting, MM: Instrumental Performance, MM: Piano Pedagogy & Performance, or MM: Vocal Pedagogy & Performance programs follow the Recital Track. Students enrolled in the MA: Musicology program follow the Thesis Track.
Thesis Track
Upon registering for the course MUS 641 Master’s Thesis I, the student’s academic advisor will secure two additional members of the music faculty to serve on the Thesis Committee. Following the appointment of a committee chair, the academic advisor shall notify the Dean of the School of Music. The student is expected to work with and provide ample opportunity for committee members to evaluate the student’s work and progress.
Students should refer to the Guidelines for Writing Master’s Theses for instructions. The oral defense serves as the final specialty exam for students on the thesis track.
Recital Track
The student’s applied professor appoints a committee of three faculty members: the applied professor (who serves as chair) and two other music faculty members. Should the applied professor also be the student’s academic advisor, another faculty member familiar with the student’s work is added.
- The applied professor and student select the graduate recital program.
- The recital hearing takes place four weeks before the recital, with the committee members in attendance. Additional faculty may be requested for the hearing if deemed appropriate. Committee members grade the recital hearing on a pass/fail basis.
Academic Concerns
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to be the creator of their work and to maintain academic integrity in all aspects of the course. Cheating is the violation of classroom rules of honesty on examinations and assignments. Any student found guilty of cheating may receive a failing grade of “F” for any assignment, project, or exam, and may result in failure of the course.
Plagiarism is defined as representing or repeating the words or ideas of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise. All writing you do for any course must be your own and must be exclusively for that course alone. Any student found guilty of plagiarism may receive a failing grade of “F” for any academic exercise and may result in failure of the course. (Policy adopted March 2010, rev. Feb. 2011, rev. Aug. 2016)
Ensemble Credit
Graduate students are required to enroll in at least one major ensemble for zero credit each semester. However, a student must fulfill the standard attendance requirements for any ensemble in which s/he participates, even if not taken for credit. This unique arrangement, allowing participation without registration, applies only to ensembles, not any other course type.
Earning a Second Master’s Degree
Students desiring to earn a second master’s degree from Campbellsville University must meet the requirements for admission to the second-degree program. Up to 14 hours from the first-degree program may be applied to the second program, with a minimum of 18 additional hours required in the new program. Culminating projects for both degree programs must be completed.
Master of Arts in Music
Master of Music
Master of Music in Music Education
Post-Graduate Diploma