The minor in music performance offers students an opportunity to improve on their instrument or voice through ensemble performance, private lessons, recitals, and instruction in music theory. Students also take an elective in music that can be used to explore a genre, musical culture, or composer related to the student’s performance area or can be used to broaden the student’s musical horizons beyond their area of focus.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.
Note: Acceptance into the minor requires an audition.
Prerequisite course
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| |
| MUSC 1119 | Fundamentals of Western Music Theory | 4 |
Music Core
A grade of C or higher is required in MUSC and MUSI courses.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 4 |
| Music in Everyday Life | |
| Music in Everyday Life
and Lab for MUSC 1002 | |
| MUSC 1201 | Music Theory 1 | 4 |
Music Lessons
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 4 |
| Music Lessons 1 | |
| Music Lessons 2 | |
Music Ensemble
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 5 |
| Chorus | |
| Concert Band | |
| Orchestra | |
| Wind Ensemble | |
| Jazz Ensemble | |
| Rock Ensemble | |
| Blues/Rock Ensemble | |
| Create Your Own Music | |
| Chamber Ensemble | |
| Jazz Choir and Combo | |
| World Music Ensemble | |
| Fusion Ensemble | |
| Pep Band | |
Music Electives
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 4 |
| Rock Music | |
| Jazz | |
| Film Music | |
| Music Therapy 1 | |
| Music of the Middle East | |
| Topics in Diverse Musical Cultures | |
| Wired for Sound | |
| Black Popular Music | |
| Songs That Made History | |
| Algebra and Geometry of Music | |
| Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation | |
| Jazz Improvisation | |
| Conducting | |
| Introduction to Songwriting | |
| Advanced Songwriting | |
| Popular Music Since 1945 | |
| Topics in Western Art Music | |
| Topics in Global Music Cultures | |
| Punk Rock | |
| 40,000 Years of Music Technology | |
| Musical Communities of Boston | |
| Topics in Musical Communities | |
| The Festival Experience | |
| Divas, DJs, and Double Standards | |
| Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music | |
| Music, Sound, and the Screen | |
| The World of Choral Music | |
| Music Composition Seminar 1 | |
| Music Perception and Cognition | |
| Writing about Music | |
| Sounding Human | |
| Music and the Racial Imagination | |
| Sound and the Sacred | |
| Music, Noise, Silence | |
| Ethnography and the Arts | |
| Music Analysis Seminar | |
| Music and the Brain Research | |
| Music and Social Justice | |
| Hip Hop in the Music Industry | |
| The Independent Performing Songwriter: Creation, Commerce, and Well-Being | |
Music Recitals
GPA Requirement
2.000 GPA required in the minor.
