Learning Outcomes

Music Program

Upon completion of the major in Music at NYUAD, students will have acquired:

1. Musical literacy, understood as formal knowledge of musical structures and practices, informed primarily (but not solely) by Western and Arab traditions of music theory and analysis
2. Ability to communicate in written and oral form about music and music practices  employing a critical vocabulary that can be applied to the analysis, interpretation, and  making of music
3. An interdisciplinary conception of music, informed by a well-grounded  understanding of its historical and contemporary interrelations with other art forms and fields of inquiry and research
4. Substantial engagement in musical practice in its many facets, including performance, improvisation, composition, and the use of computational and recording technologies