MUS 004, 005, 006: College Preparatory Music Theory
A college preparatory course intended for high school juniors and seniors, this course is designed to help students achieve fluency in written and aural fundamentals of music, including clef reading, intervals, major and minor scales, triads, seventh chords, and simple melodic and harmonic analysis. Class work is supplemented by required drill work in the music lab.

In order to receive the designation of Arts Concentration on their high school diploma, students must successfully complete (or be awarded advanced placement from) this course.

MUS 011, 012, 013: College Preparatory Aural Skills
A college preparatory course intended for high school juniors and seniors, this course is designed specifically to prepare students for undergraduate aural skills work. Prerequisite: MUS 006 or equivalent. Instructor’s permission required.

MUS 014, 015, 016: College Preparatory Music Literature
A college preparatory course intended for high school juniors and seniors, this course focuses on detailed stylistic consideration (both aurally and through score study) of selected representative works from the contrasting styles of Western art music from the Middle Ages to the present. Works are placed in broad historical and cultural context, but the priority of the course is score study. Prerequisite: MUS 006.

MUS 0390: Performance Hour
Attendance at the weekly Performance Hour is required of all high school music students.

MUS 0400: Private Instruction
Private instruction (one hour per week) on specialty instrument, voice or composition. This also includes the required studio class (for composers, Composition Seminar). Each specialty performance teacher maintains a weekly class for his or her students. Included are in-class performance and critique in addition to specialized studies related to the particular concentration of study, such as reed-making for oboists.

MUS 098: Introduction to NCSA
For all new high school students, this required course is an extended orientation to NCSA: to academic, arts, and social aspects of the campus community. Pass/Fail.

MUS 099: Theory Fundamentals Lab
An independent computer lab-based course designed to address deficiencies in the basic fundamentals of music theory (pitch and rhythmic notation, scales, intervals, triads). The course is graded on a pass/fail basis. May be required of any student who fails College Preparatory Music Theory.

MUS 0599: Intensive Arts Projects
During the two-week period immediately following Thanksgiving break, students participate in special projects, classes, seminars and performances. Students are encouraged to pursue musical studies; however, interdisciplinary interests may be considered. Students must enroll in the course each fall term they are in attendance at NCSA. The course is graded “pass/fail.”