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Bachelor of Arts in Music and Musicology - Musicology

Total Credits
99
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Mission

The Department of Music and Musicology at Notre Dame University-Louaize aims to prepare students to obtain undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music. It offers a comprehensive quality education that fosters excellence in scholarship and the opportunity to develop competence and expertise in the areas of music, history, theory, analysis, and composition. Students will acquire additional skills such as critical thinking, performance, interpretation, improvisation, and creativity. Its curriculum follows the American model of liberal arts education.

 

Program Educational Objectives

The objectives of the Bachelor of Arts in Music and Musicology program are tailored to the needs of students who wish to have a successful career in the music industry, in particular to:

  1. 1.Understand the historical musical styles, compositional techniques, and performance practices of various style periods.
  2. 2.Recognize the scales and modes of the music literature.
  3. 3.Understand the language of different instruments of the orchestra.
  4. 4.Implement original musical ideas to imagination.
  5. 5.Use new technologies when writing music.

 

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon graduation with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Musicology, students will:

  1. 1.Demonstrate the ability to prepare, compose, arrange in both classic and Jazz music.
  2. 2.Perform a recital by applying specialized skills and techniques of music performance on each student’s major instrument or voice.
  3. 3.Relate music to different sisters’ disciplines.
  4. 4.Demonstrate strong skills in improvisation, performance of various styles of jazz, and a basic knowledge of jazz history.
  5. 5.Conclude using critical thinking on findings in musicology.

 

Admission Requirements

Prior to admission, applicants will be subject to a practical evaluation, which covers instrument, voice, and musical background. Students with no piano background will have to take Applied Instrumental and Vocal Piano MUS 211 and MUS 221, as a remedial with the option to add another instrument. All first-year applicants must complete the Admission Requirements.

 

 

Graduation Requirements

To receive a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a student must complete a total of 99 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0/4.0 in all Core and Major Courses. Any major course with a grade of less than “C” must be repeated. The 99 credits necessary for graduation are divided as follows:

Courses

Liberal Arts Curriculum (30cr.)

English and Arabic Communication (9cr.)

Arabic Communication (3cr.)

 

English Communication (6cr.)

 
Religion (3cr.)

 
Ethics (3cr.)

 
Citizenship (3cr.)

 
Cultural Studies and Social Science (6cr.)

Cultural Studies (3cr.)

 

Social Science (3cr.)

 
Applied and Life Sciences (6cr.)

Applied Science (3cr.)

 

Life and Natural Sciences (3cr.)

 

Major Requirements (36cr.)

Music and Musicology: History, Analysis, and Theory.

Performance: Vocal, Piano, Guitar, Lute, and Percussion.

Concentration (27cr.)

Theory, Ensemble, and Composition

Free Electives (6cr.)

Students interested in becoming entrepreneurs and developing their business ideas are encouraged to enroll in the following course as a free elective: ENT 302 Entrepreneurship: Launching New Ventures. For those aspiring to pursue an MBA, it is recommended to select two courses from the following list as free electives: MGT 620, MGT 630, MRK 620, PRM 625, PRM 635, or PRM 645. Please be aware that these selected courses will be credited towards the completion of the MBA degree.

Suggested Program

Fall Semester Year I (13cr.)

MUS

211

Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal I

1 cr.

MUS

214

Musicology I

3 cr.
MUS 217 Arabic Music Theory: Maqamat and Genres I
 3 cr.

ENL

213

Sophomore Rhetoric (LAC)

3 cr.

 

 

Free Elective

3 cr.
Spring Semester Year I (19cr.)

MUS

215

Musicology II

3 cr.

MUS

221

Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal II

1 cr.

MUS

243

Lebanese and World Music

3 cr.
MUS 245 Musical Forms I
 3 cr.

MUS

282

Methodology of Music/Research

3 cr.
    Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC) 6 cr.
Summer Session Year I (6cr.)


Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC)
 6 cr.
Fall Semester Year II (16cr.)

MUS

216

Musicology III

3 cr.

MUS

227

History of Arabic Music: Beginning to Contemporary

3 cr.

MUS

228

History and Analysis of Western Music: Medieval - Baroque - Classical Period

3 cr.

MUS

246

Musical Forms II

3 cr.

MUS

331

Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal III

1 cr.
MUS 344 Religious Music (Gregorian, Byzantine, and Syriac)
 3 cr. 
Spring Semester Year II (19cr.)

MUS

229

History and Analysis of Western Music Romantic - Post Romantic - 20th Century and Contemporary 
Music

1 cr.

MUS

244

Ethnomusicology

3 cr.

MUS

247

Musical Forms III

3 cr.

MUS

337

Arabic Music Theory: Maqamat and Genres II 

3 cr.
MUS
 341 Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal IV
 1 cr.
    Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC) 6 cr.
Summer Session Year II (6cr.)


Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC)
 3 cr.
    Free Elective 3 cr.
Fall Semester Year III (13cr.)

MUS

441

Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal V

1 cr.

MUS

354

Organology of Music

3 cr.

MUS

444

Philology of Music

3 cr.

MUS

454

Instrumentation

3 cr.

 

 

Liberal Arts Curriculum (LAC)

3 cr.
Spring Semester Year III (10cr.)

MUS

451

Applied Music Instrumental or Vocal VI

1 cr.

MUS

455

Orchestration

3 cr.

 

 

Free Electives

6 cr.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Total 99 Credits

Graduate Degrees

Master of Arts in Sustainable Architecture

Master of Arts in Design

Master of Arts in Music


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