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2011-2012 Academic Catalog 
    
2011-2012 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

Music Minor


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In order to complete the minor in music, a student will:

  • Learn to read music, and acquire fundamental listening and sight-reading skills.
  • Learn the basic principles of music theory, either Western or Arab.
  • Study representative great works of music literature and composers who produced them, either Western or Arab.
  • Make substantial progress in learning to sing or play an instrument; more advanced students may also present part of a solo recital, with the permission of their teacher.
  • Sing in a choir, and/ or play in an instrumental ensemble.

This will require that the student complete 18 credit hours of instruction, normally including the following:
 

Theory and literature (10 cr.)


Performance (5 cr.)


 MUSC 280, 281 Applied Private Instruction (2 cr. each = 4 cr.)

One semester of ensemble, chosen from among the following:


• MUSC 262 Arab Music Ensemble (1 cr.)
• MUSC 263 Guitar Ensemble (1 cr.)
• MUSC 264 Chamber Ensemble (1 cr.)
• MUSC 265 Practicum (1 cr.)
• MUSC 266 Chamber Singers (1 cr.)
• MUSC 267 Cairo Choral Society (1 cr.)
 

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