Bachelor of Sacred Music (B.S.M.)

Cloverdale College offers the degree-completion Bachelor of Sacred Music (B.S.M.) especially for experienced music directors and musicians engaged in regular music worship ministry in their faith community.

This degree has the following options: 1) Performance-based Track, 2) Course-based Track, 3) Performance/Course Combination Track, and 4) Southeast Asia Track. The Southeast Asia Track is directed by The Rev. Fr. Francis Leong, Director of Southeast Asia Programs and Bishop Anthony Walsh Professor of Musicology and Asian Christian Studies, who is located in Singapore.

Tuition and Fees

Tuition: $4,250.00
Graduation: $100.00

Admission Requirements

Evidence of five or more years of applied paid or volunteer work experience in a social service ministry or faith community.
High school diploma or G.E.D. Foreign students must hold the equivalent.
Completion of the Application Procedure.

Performance-based Track

Graduation Requirements

Submission of 52 copies of performance bulletins from regular worship services.
Submission of copies of 2 audio recordings and 2 accompanying bulletins of special performances for holidays or special events.

The regular performances are valued at 4 contact hours each and the special performances are valued at 16 contact hours for a total of 240 contact hours needed to fulfill the final year of study in this degreecompletion program.

Course-based Track

The course-based B.S.M. program requires the completion of ten courses (24 contact hours per course). These courses may be taken from any Approved Educational Venue as well as in the form of ETutorials from the College's own music faculty.

Performance/Course Combination Track

In the event a student wishes to combine both performance and course work in the earning of the B.S.M. degree, there must be an accumulation of 240 contact hours of instruction/performance to complete the program. Any combination of performances and courses fulfilling this requirement will be accepted if the sequence of performances/courses has been approved by the Dean of the College.

Southeast Asia Track

All students interested in obtaining their Bachelor of Sacred Music from Cloverdale College and who also wish to study under Rev. Francis Leong in Singapore must receive final approval to commence their studies from Dr. Leong before they will be accepted into the College.

NOTE: Foreign students must hold the Cambridge School Certificate or its equivalent.

Graduation Requirements

Rev. Leong is the director for all courses for the B.S.M. (Southeast Asia Track) and has created the following curriculum. Students are required to choose and obtain 30 credits from the following courses. All course certificates must be submitted by the student to Cloverdale College upon completion of each course.

Program Curriculum

History of Music (6 credits each)
Church Music in the Renaissance (1430-1600)
Church Music in the Baroque Period (1600-1700)
Church Music in the Classical Period (1700-1800)
Church Music in the Romantic Period (1800-1900)
Church Music in the Modern Period (1900-present)
The Instruments of the Orchestra (including keyboard and organ) (3 credits)
Form in Church Music (6 credits)
The Motet
Cantata
Mass
Ave Maria
Chorale
Hymn
Magnificat
Te Deum
Oratorio
Requiem
Stabat Mater
Composers and their Specific Works (6 credits each)
Bach's Christmas/Easter Oratorio
Handel's Messiah
Britten's Hymn to St.Cecilia
Cesar Franck's Les Beatitudes- Oratorio
Berkeley's Salve Regina
Dvorak's/ Rossini's Te Deum
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
Monteverde's 1610 Vespers
Rossinin's/Dvorak's Stabat Mater
Schubert's /Gounod's Ave Maria
Vaughan Williams' Magnificat
Theory of Music (6 credits)
• Time Signatures, composition of a four-bar rhythm or composition of a rhythm to given words
• Alto (C clef centered on 3rd line) Double #s and double flats
• Scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys
• Construction of chromatic scale
• Identification and writing of triads on tonic, subdominant and dominant notes
• Terms and signs, recognition of trills, turn, ornaments, acciaccatura, appoggiatura lower mordant
• Five/Six Theory Exams conducted by Trinity/Guildhall London and Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)
Practical - Voice, Instruments (6 credits)
• Equivalent of the First Concert Certificate, or Grade
• Five/Six Practical Exams conducted by Trinity/Guildhall London and Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)
Sight Reading/Sight Singing, Keys, Time Signatures, Note
Values, Dynamics, Tempi, Articulation (3 credits)
Aural Training (3 credits)
To listen to a short piece in duple, triple, or compound duple,
triple time played twice and to state:
• The time signature
• If it begins in a major or minor key
• If the tonality changes as the piece progresses, and if so, how
• After further playing of the closing section of the piece, to state whether the cadence at the end is perfect, imperfect, plagal or interrupted.

To sing or play from memory a short melody played twice by the examiner. The key chord and starting note will first besounded and named, and the pulse indicated. A second attempt
will be allowed if necessary.

When all academic and financial requirements have been met, the student is eligible to receive his/her diploma. Students of the College have the option of attending graduation (held each year in May) or receiving the diploma by mail.dy