2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Music Minor
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The Music Minor is intended for students who are interested in supplementing their prior experiences in music. The curriculum includes core courses shared with all tracks of the Music Major, which provide structured study of skills-based musicianship, music theory, history, the study of other traditions, and performance studies. Required courses, totaling 20 credits, are as follows.
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Prerequisite course
(Must be completed prior to declaring the Music minor)
MUSIC 0100 - Fundamentals of Western Music - 3 credits
• Students must earn a letter grade of B- or better in this course in order to declare a Music Major or Minor
• Students may elect to take the Music Theory placement exam in lieu of enrolling in MUSIC 0100. A passing grade of 85% is required in order for the placement exam to meet this requirement.
Required courses (20 credits)
Note
NB: Performance courses are either private lessons (0500-level) and/or ensembles (0600-level) and must include at least one world music ensemble, selected from the following:
- MUSIC 0660: African Drumming Ensemble
- MUSIC 0661: Pitt AfroPop Ensemble
- MUSIC 0690: University Gamelan
- MUSIC 0616: Bluegrass Ensemble __________
- 3 MUSIC ____: One Elective course from 1200, 1300, 1400 or 1700 level
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