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Music Performance, Minor

2022-2023 Edition

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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.

Music Core

A grade of C or higher is required in music theory courses:

Course List
Code Title Hours
MUSC 1002
and MUSC 1003
Music in Everyday Life
and Lab for MUSC 1002
4
MUSC 1201Music Theory 14

Music Lessons

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete four music lesson courses (courses are repeatable):4
MUSC 1901
Music Lessons 1
MUSC 1902
Music Lessons 2

Music Ensemble

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete five music ensembles:5
MUSC 1904
Chorus
MUSC 1905
Concert Band
MUSC 1906
Orchestra
MUSC 1907
Wind Ensemble
MUSC 1911
Jazz Ensemble
MUSC 1912
Rock Ensemble
MUSC 1913
Blues/Rock Ensemble
MUSC 1914
Create Your Own Music
MUSC 1915
Chamber Ensemble
MUSC 1917
Jazz Choir and Combo
MUSC 1918
World Music Ensemble
MUSC 1919
Fusion Ensemble
MUSC 1920
Pep Band

Music Electives

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete one of the following:4
MUSC 1111
Rock Music
MUSC 1112
Jazz
MUSC 1113
Film Music
MUSC 1116
Beethoven
MUSC 1118
Music Therapy 1
MUSC 1137
Topics in Diverse Musical Cultures
MUSC 1141
Wired for Sound
MUSC 1144
Music and Technology: Stone Age to Digital Age
MUSC 2101
Black Popular Music
MUSC 2105
Songs That Made History
MUSC 2111
Algebra and Geometry of Music
MUSC 2130
Music of Asia
MUSC 2150
Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation
MUSC 2208
Jazz Improvisation
MUSC 2209
Conducting
MUSC 2210
Introduction to Songwriting
MUSC 2211
Advanced Songwriting
MUSC 2310
Popular Music Since 1945
MUSC 2312
Topics in Western Art Music
MUSC 2313
Topics in World Music
MUSC 2317
Punk Rock
MUSC 2320
40,000 Years of Music Technology
MUSC 2330
Musical Communities of Boston
MUSC 2340
Divas, DJs, and Double Standards
MUSC 2350
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music
MUSC 2380
The World of Choral Music
MUSC 2351
Music, Sound, and the Screen
MUSC 2420
Music Composition Seminar 1
MUSC 3300
Music Perception and Cognition
MUSC 3337
Writing about Music
MUSC 4510
Music and the Brain Research
MUSC 3352
Sounding Human
MUSC 3353
Music and the Racial Imagination
MUSC 3354
Sound and the Sacred
MUSC 3541
Music Analysis Seminar
MUSC 3560
Topics in Music since 1900
MUSI 3351
Music and Social Justice
MUSI 3401
Hip Hop in the Music Industry
MUSI 5900
Ethnography in Creative Industries

Music Recitals

Course List
Code Title Hours
MUSC 3410Recital 11
MUSC 4622Recital 21

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor. Students must complete all required music courses with a grade of C or better.

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