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Music may be a personal passion you would like to advance, a key component to your career goals, or perhaps it’s simply something you wish you knew more about. Regardless, the minor in music can enhance any major.
The William Woods University music minor covers history, aesthetics and performance of music. Coursework includes piano, voice, music fundamentals, and the exploration of jazz, pop and rock.
Students may expand their work in great opportunities like the Jameson singers vocal ensemble, our student-led, faculty-sponsored pep band, or sing it out on stage in our annual musical. Faculty have experience with a variety of musical instruments and can offer continued lessons in some of those instruments as well as voice and piano.
The Minor in Music at William Woods University includes 12 required course credits and 6 applied music and music elective credits.
Minor Requirements
Core Credits: 12.00
| The introduction of fundamentals in music reading, including treble and bass clef, signatures, scales, time signatures, and rhythm in conjunction with interval singing and aural identification. credits: | Music Fundamentals -X | 3 |
| An introduction to the elements of music and the use of these elements in various musical styles including masterpieces of Western music, popular and folk music, as well as music of other cultures. credits: | Music Appreciation -U | 3 |
| An examination of the various ”popular” music genres. This course aims to develop listening ability and comprehension while tracing the development of these styles in the 20th century. credits: | Jazz, Pop and Rock -X | 3 |
| Study of music from Ancient Greece through the Baroque periods. Composers, musical styles and musical forms will be discussed. credits: | Music History I -U | 3 |
Required Elective - 6 Credits
credits: | Introductory Projects | 3 |
| Beginning to intermediate individual instrumental music instruction. One 30-minute session per week. Beginning students learn notes, rhythm, simple musical fundamentals and apply these to the instrument of their choice. Intermediate students express greater musical progression with appropriate literature. Course is repeatable for credit up to eight times. Course Fee credits: | Instrumental Applied Lessons 1 | 1 |
| Advanced individual instrumental instruction. One 60-minute session per week. Concentration on expanding repertoire, intensified musical expression and complete musical production. Course is repeatable one time. Course Fee credits: | Applied Instrumental Lessons 2 | 2 |
| Individual beginning vocal instruction. One 30-minute session per week arranged with the vocal instructor. Student learns basic concepts of the vocal instrument focusing on breathing, pitch, vowel placement and intonation. Student applies learned techniques to appropriate literature. Course is repeatable for credit up to eight times. Course Fee credits: | Applied Voice I | 1 |
| Individual advanced vocal instruction. One 60-minute session per week arranged with the vocal instructor. Student learns more advanced concepts of the voice and applies learned techniques to more advance vocal literature. Prerequisite: Audition with and permission of the instructor. Course is repeatable one time. Course Fee credits: | Applied Voice II | 2 |
| A vocal ensemble concentrating on the balancing and blending of voices. SATB or SSA (depending on enrollment) No audition required. However, participant must be able to sing in order to stay in the ensemble. credits: | Jameson Singers | 0-2 |