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Professors Mehler (Administrative Chair), Delfing, Dolan, Niblock, Standiford

Music is a creative art form in which sounds are selected and combined to be heard over time. It is also a means of communication and expression. The study of music enables music makers and listeners to increase their understanding of both the sounded and written aspects of musical language. Music courses serve students from a wide variety of musical backgrounds so that individuals can begin or continue their musical development in any of three different areas:

• Music and Cultures: the exploration of historical and current music that has emerged from diverse cultures, music makers, and audiences. Students learn to recognize musical conventions and to analyze the relationship of those conventions with individual music makers and broader cultural practices.
• Materials and Methods: the examination of individual components of music, their organization into systems, and their interrelationships, the combination of which transforms sounds into recognizable musical works. Students develop the capacity to recognize, understand, and reproduce music’s basic elements both in isolation and in complete musical contexts
• Performance: the production of aural music. Students interpret previously documented music through technical capacity and aesthetic awareness. Solo and small group performers explore repertoire with faculty mentors. Larger ensembles engage repertoire with faculty conductors.

Courses

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Programs

• Music Minor

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