B.A. in Music

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I don't know how motivated you are, but University Boston has a MA and PhD 100% online in music. Perhaps you could enroll in the MA courses with special permission and transfer back into EC...maybe not...but you could ask. Another issue is the cost, I think it is pretty expensive.
Are you looking for theory or performance? My brother's undergrad and grad are both in music, I could ask him for leads.

As morgan indicated, I'm not sure if your post was directed at me.

My interest is more in music history, although I wouldn't mind taking a DL form and analysis course. I already hold a bachelor and graduate degrees outside of music. At Excelsior, I would only need courses to fullfill the upper level requirement in the major.

At Tesc, I would be done as far as the major, but need the additional 30 credit hours beyond the date of the last degree. I don't want to play the game of taking random (e.g. FEMA) credits just to meet this requirement.

I am aware of the BU program and would probably have a good chance of being admitted directly into the Master of Musiic program without completing the BA in music. At $546/credit hour I'm just not interested. I want the BA in music solely for personal satisfaction and can't justify that level of expense for individual courses or a BU master's degree.

BTW - Excelsior's upper level requirements for a BA in music are more onerous than any number of National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) accredited programs. The NASM accreditation is over-and-above RA accreditation for music degrees. I've identified several schools where a BA in music is possible with less than six upper-level hours in music, or where a major requiring significantly more work in music than Excelsior(36-50 semester hours instead of 30) requires less than 15 upper-level hours.

I think the problem here is that course numbers for music major courses are more reflective of when a course is taken than the level (e,g,. introductory, intermediate, advanced) of the course. One can argue that the first-year courses for music majors are at least at the intermediate level, given the typical requirement for a successful audition and/or the passing of musicianship or music theory tests prior to enrolling in a first semester freshman course in the major. There are several other arguments to support the contention that music major course numbers are inconsistent with the common notion of "course level" but I'll not go into them here.

I'm very interested in hearing anyone else's comments on Excelsior's upper-level requirement for the BA in music. I'd also love to hear from anyone that has earned the BA in music from Excelsior.