The Lamont School of Music offers a comprehensive minor in music, open to all DU students by audition only. The minor includes music theory, aural skills, musicology, applied lessons and ensemble credits. The minor consists of 23 credits and can be completed in 2 years. An ideal music minor for the Lamont School of Music has previous experience on their primary instrument.
Students who would like to be considered for a music minor should contact the Lamont Office of Admissions to schedule an audition.
Minor Requirements
Students pursuing the minor take 30-minute (2 credit) lessons each week and participate in ensembles on their primary instrument. They take eight credits of music theory/aural skills and six credits of MUAC 2000-level musicology courses. The music minor consists of 23 credits and can be completed in 2 years.
For more information see the Undergraduate Bulletin.
Admission Requirements
An ideal music minor for the Lamont School of Music has previous experience on their primary instrument. If you would like to be considered for the minor in music, please contact the Lamont Office of Admission at musicadmission@du.edu to schedule your audition. Auditions are held year-round.
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Featured Courses
MUAC 2057
Intro to World Musics
About this Course
This course is designed as an introduction to select world music traditions and to ethnomusicology, a discipline many define as the study of music in culture. We focus on three world areas: North India, Brazil, and Senegal. For each of these units, we examine various genres and musical systems and explore music's connection to ritual, belief, aesthetic ideals, politics, and social organization, asking what makes music meaningful for practitioners and audiences. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by regular guest lecture-demonstrations, films and hands-on workshops. Because students interpret the musical works as they represent the ideas and artifacts of human culture and analyze the connections between these and varied human experiences and perceptions of the world, this course may be used to partially fulfill the general education requirement Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture. Prerequisite for music majors: MUAC 2051.
