Music Minor

Emphasis in Performance

Students may be asked to pass an audition to become music majors or minors. Please contact the director of the music discipline regarding requirements. While on the first semester of applied study, students are considered on probation of the minor and pending approval of the professor for acceptance to the minor.

• Fundamentals:

• MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano I

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• History Survey:

• MUS 274 - Western Music History: An Overview

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• Music Theory

• MUS 107 - Music Theory I
• MUS 108 - Music Theory II

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• Other:

• MUS 277 - Entrepreneurship for Creative and Performing Artists

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• Applied Music: Eight semester hours in the appropriate applied music instrument at or beyond the intermediate level.

  • Students who start as beginners in guitar, piano or percussion cannot become music minors at that instrument.
  • Before vocalists can declare a minor in music with an emphasis in vocal performance, they need the approval of the vocal professor and permission of the discipline director.
  • Composition students need to have completed MUS 105 , MUS 107 , and MUS 108  before starting the four semesters of composition for the minor.

• Guitar:

• MUS 136 - Private Instruction-Guitar
• MUS 228 - Private Guitar Instruction

• Students completing the emphasis in guitar performance are required to take MUS 231 - Group Guitar II  instead of MUS 178 .

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• Percussion:

• MUS 135 - Private Instruction-Drumset And Percussion
• MUS 245 - Private Drumset and Percussion Instruction - Advanced

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• Piano:

• MUS 178 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano II
• MUS 115 - Private Instruction-Piano
• MUS 220 - Private Piano Instruction

• Private instruction at the 300- and 400-level is reserved for music majors only.

   

• Voice:

• MUS 122 - Private Instruction-Voice
• MUS 232 - Private Voice Instruction

Emphasis in Music Theory or Composition

• MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano I
• MUS 105 - Fundamentals of Music Theory
• MUS 107 - Music Theory I
• MUS 108 - Music Theory II
• MUS 274 - Western Music History: An Overview

• Depending on their interests and needs, students will be asked to add courses from the Concordia College offerings or an independent study course from Dominican professors. This will be decided in a meeting with the director of the music discipline.

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  Emphasis in Music Theory

  Two additional courses in music history and/or theory. including ear training. Classes can be independent study or directed study with one of Dominican’s professors or can be chosen from Concordia University’s catalog, in consultation with the director of the music discipline.

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Emphasis in Composition

In order for a student to concentrate in composition, they have to have completed MUS 105 , MUS 107  and MUS 108 , or be able to test out of them.

Subsequently, the student has to take 6 semester hours in composition private instruction, selected in consultation with the director of the music discipline:

• MUS 130 - Private Instruction-Composition
    
• MUS 200 - Private Instruction: Composition
    
• MUS 230 - Composition and Music Software Private Instruction
    

All students who concentrate in composition are required to have their work performed in the Dominican University recitals, once a semester.