2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Apr 19, 2024

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Music Minor

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Overview

Undergraduate Program

The program offers both a major and a minor, as well as courses and activities for the nonmajor. Courses are designed to teach students to listen to music intelligently, develop musical perception, master basic skills of music and apply them creatively, and acquaint students with representative works from various periods of music history. The study of music can open new perspectives on many aspects of culture and society and the program stresses the advantages of combining professional musical development with the humanistic breadth offered by a strong liberal education.

Courses are open to majors and nonmajors, and assignments are designed to suit the different goals and backgrounds of the students in each category.

Courses

Nonmajors

All of the courses, seminars,and activities in the music program—with the exception of senior tutorials (MUSC 230 , MUSC 240 , MUSC 250 , MUSC 260 )—are open to qualified nonmajors. Students who have a strong interest in music but whose major lies in another discipline can declare a minor in music. The music minor centers on a core of studies in one of five specific areas.

Performing Organizations

Nonmajors and majors may audition for a variety of organizations which rehearse regularly and perform several yearly concerts. These groups include the Clark Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus, Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, Clark Concert Band and the Jazz Workshop Ensembles.

Preprofessional Programs

Students interested in such professions as music therapy, multimedia, concert management, ethnomusicology, or music education may combine music courses with appropriate courses from other disciplines to create an individually designed major. The requirements for such preprofessional programs are jointly determined by the student and an advisery committee made up of one music faculty member and two faculty members from other disciplines.

Although the music program does not offer specific courses in music education, music majors interested in music education may take courses in the music curriculum, in conjunction with teaching courses through the education department. For more information, contact the education department.

*The following musical activities - MUSC 170* - Clark Concert Choir , MUSC 171* - Clark Chamber Chorus , MUSC 172* - Concert Band , MUSC 173* - Chamber Music Ensembles and MUSC 174* - Jazz Workshop and Combo -are open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Auditions are held during the first week of each semester. Although no credit is awarded, the transcript of any undergraduate who completes the assigned performance requirements will include a listing of the particular activity for which he or she was registered.

Program Minor

A. Music Minors (other than Jazz)

1. Core requirements, taken by all minors (3 courses):

2. Minor Concentrations (3 additional courses each):

(a) Minor in Performance

4 semester of MUSC 180 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice (Private Lessons for credit; note that acceptance to the minor in music performance requires approval of Music 180 instructor and full-time music faculty) 1 additional music course

(b) Minor in History/Criticism

3 Music History courses

(c) Minor in Theory/Composition

MUSC 122 - Theory II: Tonality 2

2 Music Theory/Composition courses

(d) Minor in Music Technology

B. Minor in Jazz Studies

MUSC 100 - Studying Music Historically and Critically or
MUSC 104 - Music and Modernism in Society, 1885-1945
MUSC 121 - Theory I: Tonality 1
MUSC 141 - Computers and Music
MUSC 151 - Jazz History
1 pertinent course in 20th-century American History and/or Communications and Culture a minimum of 2 semesters of MUSC 180 on a jazz instrument (note: an independent study in Jazz Theory/Composition may be substituted for one of these semesters)

2 semesters participation in the Jazz Workshop or Combo