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Program Requirements

Students in the Music Minor concentration must consult the Music Adviser prior to registration. Questions regarding the general requirements of the B.A. program and especially elective courses should be addressed to the Office of Advising and Student Information Services (OASIS) at the Arts Faculty.

Completion of the diagnostic placement exams for music theory and musicianship is mandatory. Students should refer to the placement exam website for more details: /music/student-resources/new-students/placement-exams.

Prerequisite Courses

Students must complete the diagnostic placement exams for music theory and musicianship. Depending on the results, they may be asked to register for one or more of the prerequisite courses listed below. These prerequisite courses cannot be counted toward the 18 credits of the program requirements.

• MUHL 186 Western Musical Traditions (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music History and Literature : A survey of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis on key musical concepts and genres in their historical context and aural recognition of style.

  Terms: Fall 2019

  Instructors: Cumming, Julie Emelyn (Fall)

  • 3 hours

• MUSP 140 Musicianship Training 1 (2 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Musicianship : Rhythm and metre basic subdivisions and conducting patterns; intervals, chords, and scale patterns; non-modulating tonal melodies with treble and bass clefs; harmonic progressions emphasizing two-part outer voice structures.

  Terms: Fall 2019

  Instructors: Mariner, Justin B; Asly, Monica; De Castro, Margaret Emily; Petit-Homme, Fredericka; Howes, Samuel (Fall)

  • 2 hours

  • Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.

  • Corequisites: MUTH 150, MUSP 170

• MUTH 100 Music Theory Fundamentals (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music Theory and Analysis : Basic training in music theory fundamentals. Topics include interval identification (both visual and aural), clef reading, chord recognition, melodic and rhythmic dictation, scales, and key signatures.

  Terms: Fall 2019

  Instructors: Asly, Monica (Fall)

  • The course is offered as a simultaneous corequisite to MUTH 150 (Theory and Analysis I) for students without the required music theory background. Enrolment in MUTH 100 is based on performance on the placement test for incoming undergraduates.

  • Prerequisite: Theory placement test for Schulich School of Music undergraduates.

  • Corequisite: MUTH 150

• MUTH 150 Theory and Analysis 1 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music Theory and Analysis : Diatonic chords and harmonic progressions, focus on outer-voice framework, cadences, embellishments, building chordal fluency in common-practice tonality, applied chords.

  Terms: Fall 2019

  Instructors: Klorman, Edward (Fall)

  • Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or McGill Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.

  • Corequisites: MUSP 140 and MUSP 170

• MUTH 151 Theory and Analysis 2 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music Theory and Analysis : Sequences and modulation, chromatic vocabulary, analysis of simple theme types (sentence, period, hybrids) and fugal techniques.

  Terms: Winter 2020

  Instructors: Neidhofer, Christoph (Winter)

  • Pre- or Co-requisites: MUTH 150, MUSP 140 and MUSP 170

  • Corequisites: MUSP 141 and MUSP 171

Required Courses (9 credits)

Prior to registering for each required course, students must either have completed the pre-requisite course or have successfully passed the diagnostic placement exam.

• MUHL 286 Critical Thinking About Music (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music History and Literature : Examination of various periods and styles: e.g., central works from different traditions, the interaction of music and society, performance practice, and music's relation to other arts.

  Terms: Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Summer 2020

  Instructors: Brackett, David (Fall) Huebner, Steven (Winter) Issiyeva, Adalyat (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: MUHL 186 or MUJZ 187

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUTH 301

• MUTH 250 Theory and Analysis 3 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music Theory and Analysis : Compositional resources of late 18th and early 19th century music. Analysis of forms common to the period c. 1770 - 1840, including Classical sonata forms in several media.

  Terms: Fall 2019, Summer 2020

  Instructors: Wild, Jonathan (Fall) Wild, Jonathan (Summer)

  • 3 hours

  • Prerequisite: MUTH 151

  • Corequisite: MUSP 240

• MUTH 251 Theory and Analysis 4 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Music Research (Schulich School of Music)

  Overview

  Music Theory and Analysis : Expanded harmonic resources of the 19th century (e.g., advanced chromaticism including enharmonic reinterpretation and symmetrical division). Analysis of characteristic small and large forms. Writing and analytical skills with a goal toward perceiving how levels of musical structure interact.

  Terms: Winter 2020, Summer 2020

  Instructors: Biamonte, Nicole; Mariner, Justin B; Wild, Jonathan; Piché, Marie-Ève (Winter) Piché, Marie-Ève (Summer)

  • 3 hours

  • Prerequisite: MUTH 250

  • Corequisite: MUSP 241

Complementary Courses (9 credits)

Students may select from courses in the Schulich School of Music except for courses with a MUAR subject code. Students must meet all prerequisite and/or corequisite requirements before registering.