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MUSIC MINOR

 

The Music Minor Program, available to non-music majors within Temple University, has been approved by the Academic Planning & Review Committee, the Committee on Instruction of the College of Arts & Sciences and their Collegial Assembly.

 

The procedure for declaring the minor in music and for completing the program is list below.

 

Please contact Margo Jackson, margo@temple.edu, to register for courses since many of the listed courses are taken in a sequential order.

 

Non-music students may also take certain music courses and participate in some music ensembles with special permission of Boyer College Faculty. Contact Margo Jackson, margo@temple.edu, for contact information of the appropriate faculty member.

 

 

BOYER COLLEGE OF MUSIC

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

 

 

MINOR IN MUSIC - 21 CREDIT HOURS MINIMUM

 

Step one :   Prerequisite - Music Studies 0046 or 0047 or

  competency test to show comparable skills

 

Step Two :   Successfully complete:

 

  Music Studies -- 0041 (Aural Theory)

  Music Studies -- 0143 (Theory I)

 

Step Three :   Ask Associate Dean for Undergraduate Registration and Advising to assign you to a music advisor based upon your main music interests

 

The remaining 16 credits may be chosen in the following distribution:

  1. A minimum of 7 credits from the approved list of music history, music theory, and music literature courses 
  2. As many as 9 credits from the approved list of applied (performing) music lessons and ensembles
  3. Applied music courses are optional and are not required for the minor, whereas a minimum of 5 core music credits (0041 and 0143 and 7 credits of music history, music literature, and music theory credits must be taken. The remaining 9 credits can be selected from either or both of the two categories.

 

Other courses offered by the Esther Boyer College of Music, but not included on the attached list, may be taken only by special permission of the minor advisory and the instructor.

 

Electives

 

MUSIC STUDIES

Course # Course Name Credits
0031 Aural Skills I 2
0042 Aural Theory II 2
0045 Intro. to Music Theory and Literature 2
C061 Intro. to Music 3
0086 American Music 3
%0132 History of Pop 3
0133 American Musical Theater 3
0133 History of American Popular Music and Jazz 3
%0138 History of Jazz 3
0144 Theory II 3
0160 Music in History 2
0161 Music in History 2
W260 Music in History 3
W261 Music in History 3
+ C315 Computer in Musical Applications 3
++C316 Computer Syntheses of Music (Digital) 3
%0321 Audio Engineering 2
0324 The Jazz Language 2
0346 Composition/MIDI 3

 

 

APPLIED MUSIC

Course # Course Name Credits
0023 Class Voice 1
0024 Class Voice 1
0030 Piano Non-major 1
0031 Piano Non-major 1
0032 Piano Non-major 1
0033 Piano Non-major 1
#% 0036 Private Piano Non-major 1
#% 0037 Private Piano Non-major 1
#& 0038 Private Piano Non-major 1
#% 0038 Private Piano Non-major 1
#% 0056 Private Voice Non-major 1
#% 0057 Private Voice Non-major 1
#% 0058 Private Voice Non-major 1
#% 0059 Private Voice Non-major 1
#% 0066 Instrumental Non-major 1
#% 0067 Instrumental Non-major 1
#% 0068 Instrumental Non-major 1
#% 0069 Instrumental Non-major 1
0123 Basic Conducting 1
0131 Service Playing for Non-organ majors 1
0243 Dalcroze 2
0357 Intro. to Alexander Technique 1
0397 Early Music Ensemble 1
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Choral/Vocal Ensemble

See NOTE below

1

NOTE:   ALL CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES BY AUDITION AND SPECIAL PERMISSION ONLY

 

+ Prerequisite:   Physics 0067 (Acoustics) and 0046 and 0047or equivalent

 

++ Prerequisite:   Music Studies C315

 

% Permission of instructor required

 

# Additional fee required for private lesson