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.)

MUSC 220 - Introduction to Music (3 cr.)

EITHER

MUSC 240 - Western Music Theory I (3 cr.)
AND
MUSC 241 - Sight-Singing and Aural Skills I (1 cr.)
AND
MUSC 360 - Music in the Western Tradition (3 cr.)

OR

MUSC 245 - Arab Music Theory I (3 cr.)
AND
MUSC 246 - Maqam I (Arab Music Sight-Singing and Aural Skills) (1 cr.)
AND
MUSC 342 - Music in the Arab Tradition (3 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.)

Music Technology (3 cr.)

EITHER
MUSC 330 - Introduction to Music Technology (3 cr.)
OR
MUSC 331 - Music Production Using Protools I (3 cr.)

AUC New Cairo Campus

AUC Tahrir Square Campus