Music Minor

The music minor is completed with either an emphasis in performance or an emphasis in music theory or composition.

Minor Requirements:

Emphasis in Performance

Students may be asked to pass an audition to become a music minor. 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 or
MUS 132 - Group Guitar I
MUS 105 - Rudiments of Music Theory
Music Theory
MUS 107 - Music Theory I
MUS 108 - Music Theory II
Applied Music:

Eight semester hours in the chosen instrument (4 semesters of 2 credit hours of private instruction in your instruments of admittance). Instruments taught at Dominican are; guitar, piano, violin, and voice. Students have to be admitted to the performance minor by professor approval.
Other:
MUS 277 - Arts Entrepreneurship
Guitar:
MUS 136 - Private Instruction-Guitar (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
MUS 228 - Private Instruction- Guitar (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
NOTE: Students who start as beginners in guitar, violin, or piano can becom music minors at that instrument only after receiving instructor permission. Please contact the director of the music discipline Devvora Papatheodorou Schreier at dpapatheodorou@dom.edu for details.
Piano:
MUS 115 - Private Instruction-Piano (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
MUS 220 - Private Instruction- Piano (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
NOTE:Students who start as beginners in guitar, violin or piano can become music minors at that instrument only after instructor permission. Please contact the director of the music discipline, Devvora Papatheodorou Schreier at dpapatheodorou@dom .edu for details. 
Violin:
MUS 118 - Private Instruction- Violin (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
MUS 219 - Private Instruction- Violin (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
NOTE:Students who start as beginners in guitar, violin or piano can become music minors at that instrument only after instructor permission. Please contact the director of the music discipline, Devvora Papatheodorou Schreier at dpapatheodorou@dom .edu for details. 

Voice:
MUS 122 - Private Instruction-Voice (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
MUS 232 - Private Instruction-Voice (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
NOTE: Before vocalists can declare a minor in music with an emphasis in vocal performance, they need the approval of the vocal professor, Rose Guccione, and permission of the discipline director, Devvora Papatheodorou Schreier.

Practice and Performance Requirements of Music Minors

Music minors are expected to take their preparation for their private instruction classes seriously. The professors will communicate with the students daily practice requirements, which are expected to be followed closely. Lack of proper preparation will result to lower grades or inability to complete the class.

All music minor performance students have to complete each semester of their applied studies with either a performance in the designated Music Discipline Student Fall or Spring Recital. The possibility of completing the semester with a jury exists and the professor will help the student chose if a jury is needed instead of a performance.

NOTE: Students who study an instrument at Concordia that Dominican University does not offer, need to complete four semesters of 1 credit hour lessons,and follow the same requirement of performance or jury at the end of each semester (Concordia offers only 0.5 or 1 credit hours of instruction in instrumental study). The performances of those students, unless given special permission by the director of the music discipline at Dominican, have to take place at Dominican University.

Additional Information:

Students who do not have formal training in music will need to complete MUS 105 - Rudiments of Music Theory before enrolling in MUS 107 - Music Theory I .

Emphasis in Music Theory or Composition

Fundamentals:
MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano or
MUS 132 - Group Guitar I
MUS 105 - Rudiments of Music Theory
Music Theory:
MUS 107 - Music Theory I
MUS 108 - Music Theory II
Other:
MUS 277 - Arts Entrepreneurship
Composition students need to have completed MUS 105 , MUS 107 ,and  MUS 108 before starting the four semesters of composition for the minor. If they want to start before the completion of all of the above-mentioned theory courses, they need to have the consent of the composition professor.

Emphasis in Music Theory:

An additional courses in music history and/or theory. including ear training is highly recommended. 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.

MUS 120 - Private Instruction-Tonal Harmony
MUS 306 - Music Theory IV (2 semesters of 2 credit hours)
NOTE: Students can also take comparable-level private instruction courses as recommended by their professor.

Emphasis in Composition

In order for a student to concentrate in composition, they must have completed MUS 105 , MUS 107 and MUS 108 , or be able to test out of them. Subsequently, the student has to take 4 semester hours in composition -private instruction. For a student to take composition while being enrolled in one of the theory courses listed above, the student would need permission from the composition professor.

MUS 130 - Private Instruction-Composition (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each)
MUS 200 - Private Instruction: Composition (2 semesters of 2 credit hours each) or 1 semester of MUS 200 (2 credit hours) and 1 semester of MUS 230 (2 credit hours)
MUS 230 - Composition and Music Software Private Instruction (Please read above)
All students who concentrate in composition are required to have their work performed in the Dominican University recitals, once a year.

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