<p>I just posted something pretty similar in another thread, but why not major just in music education? Nobody’s going to stop you from practicing like a performance major while getting an ed degree, and many schools don’t have a large number of performance-specific courses. I don’t know if some schools limit a student’s ensemble choice if he or she majors in education, but the schools I’ve dealt with put players in ensembles as they audition, not with a preference to performance majors. Similarly, I think the practice of giving shorter lessons to ed majors is gone from most schools these days. </p>
<p>The one sticking point that I can think of is difficulty in scheduling the same number of recitals a performance major might be required to play, if one were so inclined, but there are usually churches that allow musicians a place to play.</p>