Students study how to possess the ability to hear, identify, and work conceptually with the elements of music such as rhythm, melody, harmony, structure, timbre, texture, read and realize musical notation, discuss compositional processes, aesthetic properties of style, and the ways these shape and are shaped by artistic and cultural force differentiate between a wide selection of musical literature, the principal eras, genres, and cultural sources and develop and defend musical judgments. Finally the BM in Education Instrumental is a professional degree program for students pursuing a major in instrumental music education.