Music Minor

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 17 credit hours of instruction, normally including the following: