Program Overview:

Passionate about music? College-level study is an opportunity to combine art with intellect. In addition to practicing and performing, students in MPC’s Music program learn to analyze and interpret musical compositions and performances with an awareness of craft, skill, and discipline. Classes in music theory and technique give students a foundation for pursuing a wide variety of upper-level baccalaureate degree programs in music, and a variety of specializations within those programs.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Perform a musical composition that, to the satisfaction of the Music Department faculty, demonstrates an intuitive awareness of the symbolic meanings inherent in that work as well as a degree of craft appropriate to the student’s level of development.
• Analyze and interpret elements of musical compositions as they reflect and relate to human thought, achievement, and expressions and to communicate the results.
• Analyze a musical composition or performance in a manner that demonstrates both an awareness of the craft, skill and discipline employed, and the intuitive values expressed.
• Demonstrate intermediate keyboard competency through the performance of level-appropriate piano literature.

MPC Degrees and Certificates

• Music - Associate in Arts (AA) 
• Music - Associate in Arts for Transfer Degree (AA-T)  
• Music - Certificate of Achievement (COA)