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Whether you’re interested in making music or learning about music, the music minor offers students from all faculties the opportunity to enhance your musical knowledge through theory, history and analysis, and performance.
Music credit courses Timetable
The UNB Centre for Musical Arts offers a variety of credit and non-credit courses that cover music theory and music history, as well as more specialized classes including Music, Computers and Technology; Music and Cinema; and Conducting. We also offer online courses such as Music Through the Ages and Music of the World.
We have three music ensemble options which can be taken for credit or as an extra-curricular activity: Concert Band, Chorale, and the Fredericton Symphony Orchestra. Ensembles are open to everyone and all are welcome.
If you want to delve deeper into music, the Music minor allows you to group a variety of music courses into a cohesive set of learnings. The Centre for Musical Arts has something to offer anyone with a musical interest.
Participating in private lessons or in an ensemble allows students to acquire or deepen skills on a chosen instrument and in musical literacy.
All students must fill out a registration form at the Centre for Musical Arts, in consultation with the Director of Music, Richard Hornsby, before enrolling in MUS 3005 / 3006 / 3007.
MUS 3000 and 3001: This is a directed study option for which consideration requires consultation with the Director of Music.
Under the direction of Hugh Kennedy, the UNB Concert Band meets on Tuesdays from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Memorial Hall.
A full wind, brass, and percussion ensemble open to anyone (students, staff, faculty, and the community at large) who plays a band instrument. Improve your playing and make rich musical experiences with peers. No auditions are required to join, and instruments are available to rent. The concert band performs at the end of each term, with occasional additional performances.
The UNB Chorale is under the direction of Katherin Welte, and rehearses in the auditorium of Memorial Hall on Mondays from 7 – 9 p.m.
The choir welcomes advanced and novice singers from students, faculty, staff, and the general public. The choir participates in concerts on campus, as well as other events in the community.
The Fredericton Symphony is a community orchestra under the direction of Richard Hornsby, which welcomes students. It performs various concerts throughout the year, rehearsing in the auditorium of Memorial Hall on Saturdays from 2 – 4:30 p.m.
Richard Hornsby, Director of Music
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