<p>Rice does not offer a BA in Music History unless you are accepted into the BM program and then move to a BA after a year. The Music History major is in the Shepherd School of Music, an audition based conservatory [Shepherd</a> School of Music - Rice University](<a href=“http://music.rice.edu/undergraduate/degrees.shtml]Shepherd”>http://music.rice.edu/undergraduate/degrees.shtml). You do not mention any performance capability. Even the music history major has performance requirements. <a href=“http://music.rice.edu/undergraduate/pdf/BMMusic%20History.pdf[/url]”>http://music.rice.edu/undergraduate/pdf/BMMusic%20History.pdf</a></p>