The Music Department supports an unusually diverse curriculum for a department of its size. By a choice of concentrations within the bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree, the student can emphasize different aspects of music. The “Contemporary Practices” and “Global Musics” concentrations offer a variety of modules (groupings of courses with various focuses) that students will be required to select from in addition to core requirements designed specifically for each concentration. All students pursuing the B.A. degree must select one of the three concentrations.

The concentrations and corresponding modules relevant to each concentration are:

Contemporary Practices Concentration. A concentration emphasizing composition and improvisation across multiple genres of music composition. Modules offered are:

    ✔ Global Art Musics

    ✔ Spontaneous Composition and Improvisation

    ✔ Experimental & Contemporary Musics. This module offers a variety of electronic music studio courses.

All module offerings are based on availability within the curriculum plan. Students should visit the Music Department website for a list of when each module’s courses will be offered.

Global Musics Concentration. A concentration emphasizing global music research, performance, and writing. Modules offered are:

    ✔ Africa and the Americas

    ✔ Asia

    ✔ Contemporary/Experimental

    ✔ Europe

    ✔ Jazz

    ✔ Popular Music

    ✔ World Music

All module offerings are based on availability within the curriculum plan. Students should visit the Music Department website for a list of when each module’s courses will be offered.

Western Art Music Concentration. A concentration emphasizing classical Western art music performance, theory and history. This concentration requires some performance ability on a standard orchestral instrument or voice in classical repertoire (or improvisational repertoire for drum set majors) upon entry to the concentration. This concentration does not have a set of modules, but rather has a set course list of requirements.

The list of course requirements and when the courses are offered can be found on the Music Department website.

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The Bachelor of Arts in Music program in music is designed to help students accomplish the following learning outcomes:

✔ Demonstrate critical familiarity with differences and commonalities among musical practices and their material conditions, across a diverse range of genres, cultures, and histories.

✔ Demonstrate familiarity with analytical tools arising in theories of music, including those in music theory, ethnomusicology, and sound studies, as they are applied to musical sounds, practices, and repertoires in diverse musical contexts.

✔ Demonstrate skills in listening, interpretation, and collaboration as they pertain to music-making across diverse oral and notational repertoires.

✔ Demonstrate performance proficiency on a specific instrument (including voice specializations) across a range of musical genres, periods, and/or practices.

✔ Demonstrate skills in music composition, improvisation and/or production including skills in audio technologies.

✔ Demonstrate working knowledge of social science, humanities, and/or arts approaches to research in music-relevant topics.This includes qualitative and quantitative research methods for, gathering or obtaining research data, finding/using primary sources, and other research approaches/methods.

✔ Demonstrate effective writing and interpretive skills to participate in disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue about musical practices, traditions, genres, ideas, and music-making spaces.