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Our Mission
 The Music Program at Seton Hill University seeks to educate musicians who will think and act critically, creatively, and ethically, and who are prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities for careers in music in the twenty-first century.
As such, all music students at Seton Hill will:
- Demonstrate a high level of proficiency on their major instrument or voice and perform from a cross-section of the appropriate repertoire.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the skills necessary to work as a leader and in collaboration on matters of musical interpretation.
- Demonstrate an appropriate level of secondary proficiency on piano and voice. Additionally in music education, on one secondary woodwind, brass, string, or percussion instrument, and in music therapy, on guitar.
- Demonstrate growth in artistry, technical skills, collaborative competence and knowledge of repertory through regular ensemble experiences as well as attendance at concerts and recitals.
- Identify the common elements and organizational patterns of music and their interaction and employ this understanding in aural, verbal, and visual analyses.
- Demonstrate an ability to read music at sight with fluency.
- Create derivative or original music both extemporaneously and in written form.
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of music history from antiquity to the present time, including music of western and non-western cultures.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of technological/computer applications in music.
The following objectives additionally apply in each of the four Bachelor of Music programs:
Music Education
- Communicate knowledge, skills and techniques in the development and delivery of instruction.
Sacred Music
- Demonstrate an understanding of musical religious practice including orders of worship, hymnology, administrative structures and procedures, and the relationships between sacred music and the music of general culture.
Performance
- Demonstrate, through public performance, comprehensive capabilities in the student's major performance medium.
Music Therapy
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of the dynamics and processes of therapy utilizing accepted methods and theories of major therapeutic approaches, including other creative arts therapies.
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of human systems and development as well as a basic knowledge of the potentials, limitations, and problems of exceptional individuals.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of music therapy foundations and principles, including history and philosophy; observation, assessment, and measurement techniques; treatment planning; methods and materials; professional role and ethics; the psychology of music; and the influence of music on behavior.
The mission, goals and objectives of both the music program and the University have been and continue to be a guiding force of the study of music at Seton Hill. The commitment to high quality professional study of music within the liberal arts framework has shaped much of the curriculum, including the commitment to the Bachelor of Music degree as the basis for the undergraduate music program. The university's emphasis on service and concern for others has also had an indelible stamp on the music program. It has affected both the type of student who has enrolled and the type of faculty member who has elected to work here. The faculty at Seton Hill is truly a collaborative one. Decisions, be they curricular, artistic or otherwise, are made in an atmosphere of collegiality and cooperation. What results is a positive and supportive atmosphere for both faculty and students. That support is also provided by the University administration.
As evidence of this student-centered commitment to quality, the Music Program is a fully accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music, a distinction held since 1948. The music therapy degree program is also accredited by the American Music Therapy Association.
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