Music

The Minor in Music has the following requirements:

  1. Twenty credits (the equivalent of five courses) in Music. 
  2. A minimum of 40 credits in HSSA courses must be earned to obtain the minor.
  3. Substitutions may be made with the approval of the Minor Advisor.

Music Theory Courses

(both required)

MUSI H101Music Theory I: Fundamentals of Tonal Music4
MUSI H102Music Theory II: Basic Form and Composition 14
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pre-requisite: MUSI H101 Music Theory I: Fundamentals of Tonal Music

Students may choose to satisfy the MUSI H101 pre-requisite for  MUSI H102 and MUSI H302 by passing the Music Theory Placement Test. Students who place into MUSI H102 or MUSI H302 and pass either course with a C or better will earn credit by examination for MUSI H101.

Other Music Courses 

(students must pick three)

MUSI H201Early European Music (Before 1650)4
MUSI H202Baroque, Classical, Romantic Music4
MUSI H203Modernist and Postmodernist Music4
MUSI H204Popular Music & Recorded Sound4
MUSI H205Ludomusicology: The Study of Video Game Music4
MUSI H301Musics of the Global South4
MUSI H302Music and Math4
Other MUSI or music-related electives, as approved by the Minor Advisor4
MUSI H100Music Performance (pre‐requisite: consent of the ensemble director[s]) 11
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One credit of MUSI H100 Music Performance represents one academic term of satisfactory participation in one accredited Performing Group. Students may take up to four credits of MUSI H100 Music Performance and are limited to a maximum of two credits (that is, participation in two ensembles) per term. The four credits need not be completed consecutively, nor must they all be completed in the same performing group. The specific criteria for “satisfactory participation” will be provided to the candidate by the ensemble directors.

Students may apply only one (1) transfer course toward a minor. Exceptions may be made with the approval of the Minor Advisor.