Music History
There is no testing out of undergraduate Music History. This is simply because there isn’t any way to adequately test that a student has covered all we teach, except by giving every coursework assignment, both the exams, every essay assignments, and all the listening quizzes.

The Conservatory does, however, accept collegiate level credits for Transfer, as always, but these will need to be for courses as demonstrably as in depth as our own. Transfer and international students who may have already taken equivalent Music History courses and would like to transfer these credits should supply the department with syllabi of these courses (in English) along with details of any assignments, essays, and grades.

Theory Core Courses
Ear Training
Harmony & Counterpoint
Keyboard Skills
Piano Class
Keyboard Theory
Placement exams for incoming students provide the department with information enabling us to place a student in the appropriate level course. It is important that a student be familiar with all of the information covered in the Core Courses, and where appropriate to be able to demonstrate proficiency in all of the skills required. Consequently, there may be instances where a student who may know much of the course material will nevertheless be required to take the course in order to acquire a skill and/or study information which is new.

After the first semester of study a student wishing to test out of subsequent Core Courses must:
• have passed the immediate prerequisite course with an A
• register to take the placement exam in an email sent to John Murphree, Assistant to the Chair    jmurphree@bostonconservatory.edu no later than one month before the first day of the next semester    (December 23, 2009 for Spring Semester 2010)
• after registering to test out the student will be sent any midterm and final projects required of the    course and complete them before the start of the next semester
• take the placement exam at a specified time shortly before the next semester begins
• pass the placement exam with 83% (B) or higher
• earn 83% (B) or higher for both the Midterm assignment and the Final assignment