Performance Concentration: Classical Guitar (39.5-42 credit hours)

Required Courses

Foundational Music Courses (18 credit hours)
Appreciation Courses (3 credit hours)
  • MUS 274 Western Music History: An Overview (3 credit hours)
    • No prerequisite-May not be repeated for credit
Basic Skills Courses (6 credit hours)
  • MUS 101 Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano I (3 credit hours)
    • Pianists and guitarists are exempt
    • No prerequisite; may not be repeated for credit
  • MUS 277 Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Performing Artist (3 credit hours)\
Music Theory Courses (9 credit hours)
  • MUS 129 Rudiments of composition (3 credit hours)
    • No prerequisite; may not be repeated for credit
  • MUS 107 Music Theory I (3 credit hours)
    • Prerequisite MUS 129; may not be repeated for credit
  • MUS 108 Music Theory II: Rotating Topic (3 credit hours)
    • May be repeated for credit; Prerequisite MUS 129
Applied Music Courses (16 credit hours)

Additional Fee Applies

  • MUS 136 Private Instruction- Guitar (4 credit hours per year total)
  • MUS 228 Private Guitar Instruction (4 credit hours per year total)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 136, 4 credit hours
  • MUS 326 Private Guitar Instruction (4 credit hours per year total)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 228, 4 credit hours
  • MUS TBD (400 level) Private Guitar Instruction (4 credit hours per year total)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 326, 4 credit hours
Ensemble Courses (3.5-6 credit hours)

Students majoring in the classical guitar performance concentration are required to take the following courses (after completing MUS 136 and MUS 228):

  • MUS 231 Group Guitar II – By Faculty approval (3 credit hours)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 136, (4 credit hours); may be repeated for credit

And one of the following:

  • MUS TBD (300 level) Chamber Music Private Instruction at Dominican (2 credit hours)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 136 and 228, (8 credit hours); may be repeated for credit
  • MUS 3985 Chamber Music at Concordia University Chicago (0.5 credit hours)
    • May be repeated for credit
Targeted Skills: Pedagogy (2 credit hours)
  • MUS TBD (300 level) Private Instruction: Guitar Pedagogy (2 credit hours)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 228, 4 credit hours

Additional Requirements

  • Annual juries
  • Bi-annual performances
  • Senior Recital
Recommended Coursework (2 credit hours)
  • MUS 218 Private Instruction: Survey of Guitar Styles (2 credit hours)
    • Prerequisite in MUS 136 (4 credit hours); may not be repeated for credit