Music
Minor Requirements
Performer's Certificate (20 credits)
- Performance Audition, Private Lessons (2.0 hours each term) (16)
- 201 Music History (4)
- Ensembles (each term)
- 401 Senior Recital
- Music Theory I
- Keyboard Proficiency, and Performance Skills Exams
- Performance Studies Plan and Performance Juries each term
Admission by audition should be prior to enrollment in Denison. However, entry into the program will be possible up to the end of freshman year. The Performer's Certificate would count toward graduation as an academic minor.
The applied lesson fee will be waived for students in the Performance Certificate program.
Each student will develop a four-year Performance Studies Plan with his or her applied instructor to cover music in a broad range of styles, genres, and eras. The Performance Studies Plan will be updated each term.
Music Minor (20 credits)
- 104 Musical Materials (3)
- 104L Musical Materials Lab (1)
- 201 Music History (4)
- four semesters of Private Lessons (4)
- two Music Electives (8)
- four semesters of ensembles, piano proficiency exam and performance skills exam
Composition Minor (20 hours)
- 104 Music Theory I (3)
- 104L Music Theory Lab (1)
- 105 Music Theory II(3)
- 105L Music Theory Lab (1)
- 217 Computer Music (4)
- 329 20th Century Music (4)
- four semesters Composition Lessons (4)
- 402 Senior Project
Music Electives
- 206 Composition, Arranging, Conducting
- 217 Computer Music
- 224 Advanced Computer Music
- 314 Music in America
- 319 World Music
- 325 Music of the Baroque
- 326 Classical Era
- 327 The Symphony
- 328 19th Century Music
- 329 20th Century Music
- 318 Jazz and the Music of Black Americans
- 331 Music of Africa and Afro-Latin America
- 320 Women in Music
- 330 The History of American Folk and Country