Bachelors in Music Theory and Cognition

The music theory and cognition program at Northwestern is unique among music-research institutions in the way in which it treats the study of musical structure as a fundamentally interdisciplinary pursuit. Northwestern has long been a world leader in connecting music theory and cognition, and its internationally known faculty bring historical, cultural, anthropological, and psychological vantage points to bear on the study of musical structure in relation to listening, composition, performance, and analysis. It shares with the musicology program a humanistic view of music shaped by culture.