Program Requirements: B.Mus. History (124 credits)

The Bachelor of Music - Major History is a 124 credit program. You may have fewer credits to complete if you receive course exemptions and/or transfer credits.

Use our sample 4-year program plan to determine when to take each course.

Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.) - Major Music History(124 Credits)

    Offered by:Music Research
    Degree:Bachelor of Music

Program Requirement:

The Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.); Major in Music History requires 124 credits. This program focuses on the place of music in different cultural contexts, the social conditions of musicians, the evolution of performing styles, and the different ways music can project meaning and reflect identity, including the parameters of different musical styles and musical syntax. Exposure to a wide variety of repertoire in the Western classical tradition as well as to jazz and popular idioms.

Music History provides excellent preparation not only for graduate study in musicology, but also for a considerable range of professional training programs including journalism, information sciences, arts administration, and teaching.

The Bachelor of Music (B.Mus.); Major in Music History program requires 92 credits (plus 32 credits for the Freshman requirement for out-of-province students).

Program Prerequisites - Freshman Program (32 credits)

32 credits selected as described below, in consultation with the Program Adviser:

22 credits of Prerequisite Courses
4 credits of Large Ensemble
6 credits of Non-Music Electives



    Prerequisite Courses

    22 credits, all of the courses below:

    Note: Students who can demonstrate through auditions, placement tests or equivalencies that they have mastered the material in any of the courses below will be exempt from them and may proceed to more advanced courses.


    • MUHL 186 Western Musical Traditions 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUIN 180 BMus Practical Lessons 1 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUIN 181 BMus Practical Lessons 2 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUPD 135 Music as a Profession 1 1 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUSP 140 Musicianship Training 1 2 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUSP 141 Musicianship Training 2 2 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUSP 170 Musicianship (Keyboard) 1 1 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUSP 171 Musicianship (Keyboard) 2 1 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUTH 150 Theory and Analysis 1 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUTH 151 Theory and Analysis 2 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer


    Required Courses (23 credits)

    History


    • MUHL 286 Critical Thinking About Music 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer


    Theory


    • MUTH 250 Theory and Analysis 3 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUTH 251 Theory and Analysis 4 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUTH 350 Theory and Analysis 5 3 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer


    Musicianship


    • MUSP 240 Musicianship Training 3 2 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUSP 241 Musicianship Training 4 2 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer


    Performance


    • MUIN 280 BMus Practical Lessons 3 2.5 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer

    • MUIN 281 BMus Practical Lessons 4 2.5 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
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    • MUIN 283 BMus Concentration Final Exam 1 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
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    Music Professional Development


    • MUPD 235 Music as a Profession 2 1 Credits
        Offered in the:
      • Fall
      • Winter
      • Summer


    Complementary Courses (36 credits)



      History

      27 credits selected from Group I, II, and III, with a minimum of 6 credits from each group.



        Group I


        • MUHL 377 Baroque Opera 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 380 Medieval Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
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        • MUHL 381 Renaissance Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
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        • MUHL 382 Baroque Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 383 Classical Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 395 Keyboard Lit before 1750 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 591D1 Paleography 1.5 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 591D2 Paleography 1.5 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUPP 381 Topics in Performance Practice 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUTH 426 Topics in Early Music Analysis 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer


        Group II


        • MUHL 384 Romantic Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 385 Early Twentieth-Century Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 387 Opera from Mozart to Puccini 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 388 Opera After 1900 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 389 Orchestral Literature 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 390 The German Lied 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
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        • MUHL 391 Canadian Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
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        • MUHL 392 Music since 1945 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        • MUHL 396 Era of the Modern Piano 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
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        Group III


        • MUHL 314 Women in Music:A Cr-Cult Persp 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 330 Music and Film 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 362 Popular Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 370 History of Recorded Music 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 375 Intro to Ethnomusicology 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 393 History of Jazz 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 529 Proseminar in Musicology 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer

        • MUHL 592 Popular Music Studies 3 Credits
            Offered in the:
          • Fall
          • Winter
          • Summer


        Theory

        3 credits from courses with a prefix of MUTH at the 200 or 300 level.



          Musicianship

          2 credits from:


          • MUSP 324 Musicianship for Strings 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 330 Musicianship for Woodwinds 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
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          • MUSP 335 Musicianship for Brass 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
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          • MUSP 346 Post-Tonal Musicianship 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 350 Musicianship for Pianists 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 353 Musicianship for Voice 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 354 Intro to Improv and Ornamen 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 355 Musicianship for Percussion 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 361 Topics in Musicianship 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUSP 381 Singing Renaissance Notation 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer


          Performance

          Basic Ensemble

          4 credits from:


          • MUEN 563 Jazz Vocal Workshop 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 572 Cappella Antica 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
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          • MUEN 573 Baroque Orchestra 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 587 Cappella McGill 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 590 McGill Wind Orchestra 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
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          • MUEN 592 Chamber Jazz Ensemble 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 593 Choral Ensembles 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 594 Contemporary Music Ensemble 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 595 Jazz Ensembles 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer

          • MUEN 597 McGill Symphony Orchestra 2 Credits
              Offered in the:
            • Fall
            • Winter
            • Summer


          Elective Courses (33 credits)

          9 credits of non-Music courses.
          24 credits of courses to be chosen freely (excluding those with MUAR prefix)



             

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