Music

Our curriculum includes a wide variety of academic courses (from seminars to lectures and from classes devoted to a particular topic to broad historical or topical surveys), numerous performing ensembles, and private lesson instruction (in individual and group lesson format). Most of our lowerlevel courses do not assume previous musical experience or the ability to read music. Among the academic courses are classes in music theory, orchestration, and conducting. Historical and ethnographic surveys are offered in world music, western music, American music, popular music, jazz, and electroacoustic music.