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Any student admitted to a graduate degree program in the School of Music may take this minor by completing the required courses.
Note: Students whose results on the theory advisory examination place them in Review of Undergraduate Theory (MUS:5200) must complete that course before being admitted to the minor.
Course requirements, 18 s.h.
- This course:
- MUS:6215 Music Theory Pedagogy, 3 s.h.
- One of these:
- MUS:4200 Counterpoint Before 1600, 3 s.h.
- MUS:4201 Counterpoint After 1600, 3 s.h.
- Two of these:
- MUS:5240 Special Topics in Theory and Analysis, 3 s.h. (repeatable)
- MUS:6211 Theoretical Approaches to Music, 3 s.h.
- Two of these:
- MUS:4730 Jazz Theory, 3 s.h.
- MUS:5235 Tonal Analysis, 3 s.h.
- MUS:5236 Non-Tonal Analysis, 3 s.h.
- MUS:5237 Analysis of Popular Music, 3 s.h.
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Music theory faculty
Joshua Albrecht
Title/Position
Music Theory
Assistant Professor
Matthew Arndt
Title/Position
Music Theory
Associate Professor
Jean-François Charles
Title/Position
Composition, Digital Arts
Associate Professor
Composition/Music Theory Area Head
David Gompper
Title/Position
Composition
Professor
Director of Center for New Music
Kati Meyer
Title/Position
Music Theory
Visiting Assistant Professor
Sam Young
Title/Position
Theory/Composition
Assistant Professor