The music performance minor offers students an opportunity to improve on their instrument or voice through ensemble performance, private lessons, recitals, and instruction in music theory. Students also take an elective in music that can be used to explore a genre, musical culture, or composer related to the student’s performance area or can be used to broaden the student’s musical horizons beyond their area of focus.
Students concentrating in music may double count only one course between a concentration and a minor. Students may double count only one course between two different music minors. Should a student place out of a course in a minor, it must be replaced with another course relevant to the minor.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.
Note: Acceptance into the minor requires an audition.
Music Core
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| MUSC 1001 | Music in Everyday Life | 4 |
| 4 |
| Fundamentals of Western Music Theory | |
| Music Theory 1 | |
| Music Theory 2 | |
Music Lessons
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 4 |
| Music Lessons 1 | |
| Music Lessons 2 | |
Music Ensembles
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 5 |
| Alexander Technique | |
| Chorus | |
| Concert Band | |
| Orchestra | |
| Wind Ensemble | |
| Jazz Ensemble | |
| Rock Ensemble | |
| Blues/Rock Ensemble | |
| Pop Music Performance | |
| Chamber Ensemble | |
| Jazz Choir and Combo | |
| World Music Ensemble | |
| Fusion Ensemble | |
| Pep Band | |
| Open Microphone Performance Workshop | |
Music Elective
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| 4 |
| Rock Music | |
| Jazz | |
| Film Music | |
| Music Therapy 1 | |
| What's Playing at Symphony? | |
| Taylor Swift: Music, Culture, and Creativity | |
| Wired for Sound | |
| Introduction to Music Composition | |
| Black Popular Music | |
| Songs That Made History | |
| Algebra and Geometry of Music | |
| Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation | |
| Conducting | |
| Introduction to Songwriting | |
| Advanced Songwriting | |
| Popular Music Since 1945 | |
| Topics in Global Music Cultures | |
| Punk Rock | |
| 40,000 Years of Music Technology | |
| Musical Communities of Boston | |
| Topics in Musical Communities | |
| The Festival Experience | |
| Divas, DJs, and Double Standards | |
| Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music | |
| Music, Sound, and the Screen | |
| Music Composition Seminar 1 | |
| Arranging and Orchestration for Film, Media, and the Concert Stage | |
| Music Perception and Cognition | |
| Sounding Human | |
| Music and the Racial Imagination | |
| Sound and the Sacred | |
| Music, Noise, Silence | |
| Music Analysis Seminar | |
| Music and the Brain Research | |
| Music and Social Justice | |
| Hip Hop in the Music Industry | |
| The Independent Performing Songwriter: Creation, Commerce, and Well-Being | |
| Introduction to Music Technology | |
Music Recitals
GPA Requirement
2.000 GPA required in the minor
