Designed to address the many challenges that first-year undergraduate music students often encounter, The First-Year Music Major: Strategies for Success provides concrete approaches that will help anyone embarking on a degree in music develop the knowledge and skills needed to complete their first year successfully.

The chapters demystify the path of majoring in music, and address key topics including:

Planning a road map for the degree

Developing needed musical, academic, professional, practice, and performance skills

Building financial, mental, and physical well-being strategies

Written by a group of experienced professors and advisors in roles across the faculty of music, this book offers a comprehensive resource for first-year music students that will help them develop foundational skills to pursue music degrees and careers. An online e-resource accompanies the book, providing downloadable worksheets and materials referenced in the chapters.

Rooted in research and extensive practical experience, The First-Year Music Major is suited to use both in introductory music courses and by individual students and advisors.

About the Author

Kerry B. Renzoni is Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education and Associate Professor of Music at SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York, USA. She serves as advisor for undergraduate music majors and music education master’s students. An active music education researcher, she also serves as online editor for the International Journal of Music in Early Childhood and on the editorial board of Research and Issues in Music Education.

Victoria J. Furby is Music Department Chair and Associate Professor of Music at SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York, USA. In her role as department chair, she serves as advisor to all music majors. She is active as a researcher and has served on the executive boards of the New York Choral Directors Association, the New York Society of Music Teacher Educators, and New York College Music Administrators Program.

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