Professors Kallick, Móricz, Sawyer (Chair), and Schneider; Associate Professor Engelhardt*; Assistant Professor J. Robinson; Senior Lecturer Chernin, Diehl, and Swanson; Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor Wubbels; Five College Associate Professor Omojola; Five College Mellon Fellow Kolar.
The Music Department offers a full range of courses both for students with previous musical experience and for those coming to the study of music for the first time. We strive as a department to support a wide range of musical styles in our course offerings and performance activities. We encourage all students interested in making music a part of their lives and their liberal arts education to acquire a strong mastery of the fundamentals of musicianship and an appreciation for the historical and cultural study of music.
Introductory Courses. There are a number of entry points for students wishing to take courses in music. Depending on individual interest, 100-level courses in the fundamentals of musicianship, history and culture, opera, and musical theatre are well suited to students with little prior coursework in music. Several 200-level courses in history and culture are also available without requisites.
Fundamentals of Musicianship. Students interested in learning to read music and those needing to review the fundamentals of music (notation, key signatures, scales, intervals, sight-singing) should enroll in MUSI 111. Those with fluency in music fundamentals but without extensive background in music theory should consider MUSI 112, 113, and 269. Students who have not previously taken a course in music fundamentals at Amherst College should take the self-administered placement exam available on the Music Department homepage (http://www.amherst.edu/~music/TheoryPlacement.pdf). Students are also strongly encouraged to discuss placement in appropriate courses with a member of the department.
Individual Performance Instruction. Instrumental and vocal performance instruction (Performance 151H-180H-Beginner; 351H-380H-Intermediate; 451H-480H-Advanced [special permission from Faculty required]) is available on a credit or non-credit basis. A fee is charged in either case. For 2015-16 the fee for each semester course will be $720, for which the student is fully committed following the last day of the add/drop period. Students who wish to elect individual performance instruction for credit must meet the criteria outlined under the heading PERFORMANCE. Students who elect individual performance instruction for credit and are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. Normally no more than one half-credit of performance instruction is allowed per semester. See the Music Department Coordinator for information regarding instructors for this program.
Major Program. The department offers the major in music with concentrations in performance, composition, music scholarship (music history, theory, ethnomusicology, and jazz and popular music studies), and music drama and opera studies. Students majoring in music must take the necessary background courses so as to elect MUSI 241 no later than the fall of their junior year. Those interested in declaring the music major should submit an application to the Department Chair, normally no later than the first week of their junior year. The application is found on the Music Department Website (www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/music/major). Note that students will not be admitted to the major before the completion of MUSI 241 nor will they normally be admitted to the major in their senior year. In consultation with a member of the department, students determine the most appropriate manner of fulfilling the departmental requirement of eight semester courses. Note that because the music faculty are eager to help students create individualized paths in the major, we strongly encourage potential majors to speak with members of the department as early as possible in their academic careers.
We urge, as well, that students acquaint themselves with the wide variety of music courses available through Five College Interchange. For example, courses in African-American music are also offered at the University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College; courses in rock and popular music at Smith College, and courses on African music are offered at Mount Holyoke College, and there is a Five College Ethnomusicology Certificate Program (https://www.fivecolleges.edu/ethnomusicology/certificate). Above all, the department is committed to helping students put together the program best suited to their interests, abilities, and aspirations.
Beginning with the class of 2016 (or on a case-by-case basis for those graduating before 2016), the minimum of eight courses required for the major must include the six courses specified below (requirements vary slightly for majors electing honors work):
1. One of the following History and Culture courses: MUSI 123, 124, 128, 226, 227, or 238.
2. One of the following courses from the Western Music and Culture sequence: MUSI 221, 222, or 223.
3. Two courses in Theory and Analysis: MUSI 241, 242 or 243.
4. Two courses designated as "major seminars" taken after the completion of MUSI 241. (Note that majors electing to do honors work may satisfy the seminar requirement with only one major seminar.) In 2015-16, the major seminars are: MUSI 424, 439, and 443.
NB: Majors electing honors work must elect at least one of the following seminars in advance analysis: MUSI 443, 444, or 448. Additionally, majors contemplating honors in composition must complete MUSI 387 or 388 no later than the spring of their junior year, and normally MUSI 269 in preparation.
Departmental Honors Program. In the senior year students may elect to do honors work—a critical thesis (historical, theoretical, cultural, or ethnomusicological), a major composition project, a major music drama or opera project, or a major performance project. In preparation for this work, a student will ordinarily elect a number of courses in a field of concentration beyond those required. Students contemplating honors work must complete MUSI 242 no later than the spring of their junior year. Those doing honors work in performance are required to take at least two semesters of private instruction prior to the senior year and be affiliated with a private instructor while enrolled in MUSI 498 and 499. Those doing honors work in jazz (performance and/or composition, critical thesis) are strongly encouraged to take MUSI 241 and MUSI 226 or MUSE 227 prior to their senior year. The thesis course, MUSI 498-499, should be elected in the senior year. Students interested in the Honors Program should submit a formal thesis proposal to the department for approval during the spring semester of their junior year. The Music Department Coordinator will notify all junior majors of the guidelines and deadline (usually the Monday following Spring Recess) for the thesis proposal.
(Offered as EUST 101 and MUSI 101) This course teaches the close reading of music through guided listening in a variety of traditions and historical periods. The topic may change from year to year. In 2015-16, we focus on aural analysis of musical texture and form through an historical survey of works stretching from medieval Europe (twelfth-century Gregorian chant) to twentieth- and twenty-first-century America (blues, swing, Broadway, bebop, and minimalism). Composers whose works we will study include: Hildegard von Bingen, G. Palestrina, C. Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, P. Tchaikovsky, C. Debussy, G. Puccini, A. Copland, G. Gershwin, Duke Ellington, T. Monk, P. Glass, and composers of classical Broadway musicals. Lectures will be supplemented by in-class performances. In addition to weekly listening and reading assignments, coursework includes attending concerts. Two 80-minute lectures and one 50-minute section per week.
Spring semester. Professor Schneider.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2023This course will introduce students to important concepts in effective academic writing by thinking about and thinking through popular music. Our complex relationships to popular music confront us with a host of challenging social, cultural, political, and ethical issues. How do we use music to construct, maintain, or challenge private and public identities? How are race, gender, class, sexuality, and the nation constructed through popular music? What is the role of music in our everyday lives? How do concepts of intellectual property, new technologies and forms of musical creativity, and commercial interests influence the music that we listen to? Thinking critically about these issues will refine students’ writing, and writing well about these issues will refine students’ thinking. These questions, among others, will generate a series of assignments designed to encourage students to develop clear and persuasive writing styles. As a writing-intensive course, we will focus on fundamentals of writing style, grammatical accuracy, thesis development, and research methodologies crucial to successful written communication. We will use weekly reading assignments drawn from the field of popular music studies to frame and debate important issues emanating from global popular music cultures and to provide models of successful written scholarship. Peer review and a strong focus on editing and revising will be central to the course. Students will also take advantage of the resources of the Writing Center.
Students admitted in consultation with the Office of Student Affairs and/or their academic adviser. Preference given to first-year students. Limited to 12 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Wubbels.
2023-24: Not offeredThrough analysis, performance, and composition, we will build a solid working understanding of basic principles of melody and harmony common in Western musical traditions. Assignments will include writing short melodies and accompaniments as well as more detailed compositional and improvisational projects. We will use our instruments and voices to bring musical examples to life in the classroom. Two class meetings and one lab session per week. Students who have not previously taken a course in music theory at Amherst College are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available on reserve in the Music Library and on the Music Department Website (www.amherst.edu/~music/TheoryPlacement.pdf ). Students are also encouraged to discuss placement in music theory with a member of the Music Department. This course is considered a point of entry to MUSI 241.
Requisite: MUSI 111, or equivalent ability gained by playing an instrument or singing. Limited to 30 students. Spring semester. Professor Schneider.
2023-24: Not offeredA course designed to explore jazz harmonic and improvisational practice from both the theoretical and applied standpoint. Students will study common harmonic practices of the jazz idiom, modes and scales, rhythmic practices, the blues, and understand the styles of jazz in relation to the history of the music. An end-of-semester performance of material(s) studied during the semester will be required of the class. A jazz-based ear-training section will be scheduled outside of the regular class times. Two class meetings per week. This course is considered a point of entry to MUSI 241.
Students who have not previously taken a course in music theory at Amherst College are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available on reserve in the Music Library and on the Music Department Website (www.amherst.edu/~music/TheoryPlacement.pdf). Students are also encouraged to discuss placement in music theory with a member of the Music Department.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or 112 or equivalent, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Senior Lecturer Diehl.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 115 and BLST 154 [CLA]) The 1972 partnership of British-based Island Records and reggae icon Bob Marley signaled a new and important presence in the international pop music world and a rising voice of Pan-African consciousness. The commercial viability of reggae led to the globalization of a music culture with a complex semiotics and particularity to Jamaican society. At the same time, the influence of ska, reggae, Jamaican DJ culture, and Rastafarianism has had a profound influence on local cultures spread across multiple continents, creating a web of relationships between communities in Jamaica, the United States, Great Britain, Brazil, many countries in Africa, and elsewhere. This course will draw from the music and life of Bob Marley to generate a number of questions about the role of popular music in globalization and the creation, continuation, and challenging of complex racial and social identities that illustrate processes of transnationalism and globalization. We will explore the roots and development of Afro-Jamaican popular music, its leading figures and styles, and its enduring influence throughout the world. Two class meetings per week.
Fall semester. Professor J. Robinson.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015, Spring 2025Sacred Sound examines the relationship between music and religion in broad comparative perspective. In the context of major world religions, new religious movements, and traditional spiritual practices, we will address fundamental issues concerning sacred sound: How does music enable and enhance the ritual process? How is sound sacred and what are its affects? What happens as sacred sound circulates globally among diverse communities of listeners and in secular spaces? Listening, reading, and discussion will include Sufi music from Pakistan, Haitian Vodou, the songs of Ugandan Jews, Orthodox Christian hymns from Estonia, Islamic popular music from Malaysia, Chinese Buddhist chant, spirit possession music from Bali, and the music of Korean Shamans. We will also benefit from visiting performers and the sacred sounds of religious communities in and around Amherst. Two class meetings per week.
Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Engelhardt.
2023-24: Not offeredWhile music is commonly thought of as a human universal, questions concerning the universality of human rights and the relativity of cultural forms are becoming more urgent because of global interaction and conflict. Music gives voice to human dignity and makes claims about social justice. Music is a register of power and domination, as is its silencing. The specific cultural contexts that give music its meaning may not translate into global arenas, thus highlighting the dilemmas of universality. In this course, we will examine musical censorship in Senegal, Afghanistan, and Mexico, music and the indigenous rights of the Naxi in China and the Suyá in Brazil, the use of music as an instrument of torture by the United States military, music and HIV/AIDS activism in Uganda, popular music and minority language protection in the Russian Federation, and the place of music in the study of trauma, disabilities, and human ecology. The course will feature visiting performers and will pay particular attention to the discretely musical aspects of human and cultural rights. Our work will be oriented towards activism beyond the classroom. Two class meetings per week.
Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 221 and EUST 221.) One of three courses in which music is studied in relation to issues of history, theory, culture, and performance, with the focus of the course changing from year to year. This course is an introduction to European music in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. We will begin by singing Gregorian chant and will go on to cover such topics as the music of the Troubadours, the polyphonic style associated with Notre Dame, the development of musical notation, Renaissance sacred polyphony, madrigals, court dances, and the birth of opera. Throughout the course we will seek to bring the music we study alive by singing and/or playing. We will also host several professional performers of “early music” who will help us understand how this music is likely to have sounded at the time of its creation.
Requisite: MUSI 112 or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Móricz.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 222 and EUST 222.) One of three courses in which the development of Western music is studied in its cultural-historical context. As practical, in-class performance and attendance at public concerts in Amherst and elsewhere will be crucial to our work. Composers to be studied include Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Musorgsky, and Brahms. Regular listening assignments will broaden the repertoire we encounter and include a wide sampling of Classical and Romantic music. Periodic writing assignments will provide opportunities to connect detailed musical analysis with historical-cultural interpretation. A variety of readings will include music-historical-aesthetic documents as well as selected critical and analytical studies. Class presentations will contribute to a seminar-style class environment. This course may be elected individually or in conjunction with other Music and Culture courses (MUSI 221 and 223). Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111, 112, or consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Kallick.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 223 and EUST 223.) Music 223 is the third semester of the Music Department's Music and Culture series. It surveys twentieth-century music starting from Gustav Mahler at the turn of the century Vienna and concluding with Kaija Saariaho's 2000 opera L'amour de loin. Political turmoil, artistic movements, cultural shifts all left their marks on the music of the twentieth century and we will follow history's course through the lens of composers such as Debussy, Strauss, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Ives, Gershwin, Shostakovich, to name only a few of the twentieth-century most significant composers. Assignments will include regular listening, periodic short papers, and a culminating project. This course may be elected individually or in conjunction with other Music and Culture courses (MUSI 221 and 222). Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or 112, or consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Moricz.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2023(Offered as MUSI 226 and BLST 234 [US].) One of two courses that trace the development of jazz from its emergence in early 20th-century New Orleans to its profound impact on American culture. Jazz History to 1945 examines its early roots in late 19th-century American popular culture and its role as American popular music in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Using themes that connect the evolution of jazz practices to social and racial politics in American popular culture, we will look closely at the work of well-known historical figures (Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and several others) as well as the vibrant communities that nurtured and prompted their innovative musical practices. Two class meetings per week.
Omitted 2015-16. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 238 and FAMS 312.) This course is about exploring, participating in, and documenting the musical communities and acoustic terrain of the Pioneer Valley. The first part of the course will focus on local histories and music scenes, ethnographic methods and technologies, and different techniques of representation. The second part of the course will involve intensive, sustained engagement with musicians and sounds in the Pioneer Valley. Course participants will give weekly updates about their fieldwork projects and are expected to become well-versed in the musics they are studying. There will be a significant amount of work and travel outside of class meetings. The course will culminate in contributions to a web-based documentary archive of Pioneer Valley soundscapes. We will also benefit from visits and interaction with local musicians. Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111, 112, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 12 students. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offeredBasic principles of harmonic and contrapuntal technique. Emphasis will be on the acquisition of writing skills. This course is the first of the required music theory sequence for majors. Two class meetings and two ear-training sections per week.
Students who have not previously taken a course in music theory at Amherst College are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available on reserve in the Music Library and on the Music Department Website (https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/music/theoryexam ). Students are also encouraged to discuss placement in music theory with a member of the Music Department.
Requisite: MUSI 112 or consent of the instructor. Fall semester: Visiting Professor Wubbels. Spring semester: Professor Sawyer.
2023-24: Not offeredA continuation of MUSI 241 and the second of the required music theory sequence for majors. In this course we will study different manifestations of formal principles, along with the relationship of form to harmony and tonality. We will start with pre-tonal music (Lassus) focus on the understanding of musical form in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics to be covered will include minuet, variation, sonata form, the romantic character piece and eighteenth-century counterpoint. There will be analyses and writing exercises, as well as model compositions and analytic papers. Two class meetings and two ear-training sections per week.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Wubbels.
2023-24: Not offeredAn upper level theory course designed for majors or students with prior jazz performance or theory experience. Students do not need a background in jazz to enroll in this course, and this course may be used to satisfy the second required course of the music theory sequence for majors (in place of MUSI 242).
Among the topics to be explored in the course will be melodic, harmonic and formal concepts from: hot jazz of the 1920s, big bands of the 1930s and 1940s, bebop of the 1940s, the post-bop legacies of hard bop, cool jazz and their manifestations today, as well as the jazz avant-garde and fusion of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will gain an understanding of the formal principles of various types of small and large ensemble jazz composition and improvisation.
Required coursework will include melodic, harmonic and formal/structural analysis of compositions, arrangements, and improvisations from various historical and stylistic periods within the development of jazz. We will carry out these investigations through listening, transcription, and composition/writing projects. This is not a performance course; however, certain assignments will require basic performance exercises on piano and/or another instrument with which the student is familiar (including voice).
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredA continuation of MUSI 113, this course is designed to acquaint students with the theory and application of advanced techniques used in jazz improvisation. Work on a solo transcription will be a main focus throughout the semester. An end-of-semester performance of material(s) studied during the semester will be required of the class. A jazz-based ear-training section will be scheduled outside of the regular class times. Two class meetings per semester.
Requisite: MUSI 113 and/or performance experience in the jazz idiom strongly suggested. Musical literacy sufficient to follow a score. Limited to 16 students. Spring semester. Senior Lecturer Diehl.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022In this class we will explore jazz through transcription, composition, arranging and improvisation. Materials for transcription will range from the classic renditions of jazz standards by Gershwin and Kern to highly complex works by such greats as Wayne Shorter and Charles Mingus. Advanced approaches to improvisation will include the exploration of new source materials including the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicolas Slonimsky as used by John Coltrane. Using members of the class as a laboratory band we will seek to develop our own unique compositional voices that draw on jazz traditions.
Requisite: MUSI 113, 246 and/or performance experience in the jazz idiom strongly suggested. Musical literacy sufficient to follow a score. Admission with consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16. Senior Lecturer Diehl.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course provides instruction in the use of electronic equipment for composition of music. Topics to be considered include approaches to sound synthesis, signal editing and processing, hard disk recording techniques, sequencing audio and MIDI material, and the use of software for interaction between electronics and live performers. The course will also survey the aesthetics and repertory of electroacoustic music. Assignments in the use of equipment and software as well as required listening will prepare students for a final composition project to be performed in a class concert.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 10 students. Spring semester. Visiting Lecturer S. Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course introduces students to current trends in improvisation-oriented electroacoustic performance. Using laptop computers in dynamic performance situations, we will develop techniques to generate sound and modify and enhance the sound of acoustic instruments. Hardware topics will include audio interfaces, cabling, mixing boards, MIDI controllers, microphone techniques, and networking. A wide variety of specialized software will be explored, including Max/MSP, Ableton Live, Reason, and others. Assignments will focus on preparing students to perform and improvise using new "instruments" built through customized hardware and software configurations. Directed listening and reading will introduce students to the development of electroacoustic music since the 1960s. The course culminates with a class performance.
Requisite: MUSI 112 or 113, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 10 students. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course will explore compositional techniques that grow out of the various traditions of Western art music. Innovations of twentieth-century composers in generating new approaches to melody and scale, rhythm and meter, harmony, instrumentation, and musical structure will be examined. The course will include improvisation as a source of ideas for written compositions and as a primary compositional mode. Instrumental or vocal competence and good music reading ability are desirable. Assignments will include compositions of various lengths and related analytical projects. Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or 112, and consent of the instructor. Limited to 10 students. Fall semester. Visiting Professor Wubbels.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024Members of the class will be assigned to chamber ensembles, representing a range of repertoire from the past and present. Ensembles will include both student and artist musicians, who will prepare works for performance in class sessions and private coachings. Intensive class analysis will serve as the basis of musical expression and interpretation. This course is open to singers and instrumentalists. MUSI 309 may be elected either as a full credit or half credit and may be repeated.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Kallick.
2023-24: Not offeredMembers of the class will be assigned to chamber ensembles, representing a range of repertoire from the past and present. Ensembles will include both student and artist musicians, who will prepare works for performance in class sessions and private coachings. Intensive class analysis will serve as the basis of musical expression and interpretation. This course is open to singers and instrumentalists. MUSI 310 may be elected either as a full credit or half credit and may be repeated.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Kallick.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. Each performance course will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. Eachperformance course will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. Each performance course will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. Each performance course will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered351H-380H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 351H-380H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
351H-380H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as half courses. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital may take 351H-380H as a full course.
b. For 351H-380H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredComposition according to the needs and experience of the individual student. One class meeting per week and private conferences. This course may be repeated.
Requisite: MUSI 269 or the equivalent, and consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Sawyer.
2023-24: Not offeredA continuation of MUSI 387 (formerly MUSI 371). One class meeting per week and private conferences. This course may be repeated.
Requisite: MUSI 387 (formerly MUSI 371) or the equivalent and consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Sawyer.
2023-24: Not offeredIndependent Reading Course. A half course.
Fall and spring semesters.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023(Offered as MUSI 422 and EUST 371.) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) are arguably the two greatest symphonic composers after Beethoven. In this course we will compare and contrast their highly charged music and explore the eras in which they worked--for Mahler, imperial Vienna on the eve of World War I, and for Shostakovich, revolutionary Russia under the tyrannical reign of Joseph Stalin. The class will attend Mahler and Shostakovich performances in New York and Boston. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Kallick.
2023-24: Not offeredIn this course we will study and write about concertos, works for solo instrument and orchestra. From Mozart's path-breaking achievements in the form in the late eighteenth century to John Adams' recent masterpieces written at the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first, concertos represent some of the most important and most entertaining works in the classical music canon. Perhaps because of a deep-seated suspicion of the virtuosity inherent in the genre, concertos have inspired less high-quality criticism than have genres such as opera, symphony, string quartet, or works for solo piano. The first half of the course will consist of an overview of the history of the concerto from c.1775-1945 as well as a survey of the most important scholarly criticism on the subject by authors such as Scott Burnham, Simon Keefe, Joseph Kerman, Robert Levin, and David Schneider. The second half of the semester will be devoted to individual research projects designed by students in consultation with the professor with the goal of making genuine contributions to the scholarly literature on concertos. Two class meetings per week. Fulfills the departmental seminar requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 242 or consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Schneider.
2023-24: Not offeredThis seminar will explore the relationship of music and film, with a focus on ethnographic film and ethnographic film-making. How does our understanding of music inform our experience of film? How, in turn, does our immersion in film and its conventions inform our understanding of different musics? How are such conventions localized and expanded in different cultural settings? How does ethnographic film both react against, and make use of, other stylistic conventions of film-making in achieving its ends? Practical exercises in ethnographic film-making (and their analysis) during the semester will lead towards ethnographic, historical, creative, or performance-based projects. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major in music.
Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offeredFunctioning as a combined seminar and performance workshop, this course explores the theory and practice of musical improvisation. Rather than focus on one specific musical style, we will define “improvised music” in an inclusive way that draws equally from American and European experimental musics, various approaches to post-1965 jazz improvisation, and several musical traditions from around the world that prominently use improvisation. Students will be encouraged to develop new performance practices drawn from and in dialogue with these diverse musical traditions. Reading, listening, and video assignments will help familiarize students with the burgeoning field of improvised music studies and will serve to guide class discussions. Students with any musical/stylistic background are encouraged to enroll. Two class meetings per week. Fulfills the departmental seminar requirement for the major.
Requisite: Basic instrumental or vocal proficiency and consent of the instructor. Senior seminar. Limited to 10 students. Fall semester. Professor J. Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredA continuation of MUSI 242. In this course we will study music by a wide variety of nineteenth-century composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Musorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Works will be considered from a number of different analytical perspectives including methods current in the nineteenth century and those developed more recently. Comparing analytical methods of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will enable students to gain a critical perspective on each and to learn about the limits of analysis and interpretation in general. Work will consist of short weekly assignments, papers, and class presentations. Two class meetings and two ear-training sections per week. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 241 and 242, or consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Móricz.
2023-24: Not offeredIn this seminar we explore stylistic characteristics of compositions that demonstrate the most important tendencies in twentieth-century music. Instead of applying one analytical method, we try out various approaches to twentieth-century music, taking into consideration the composers’ different educational and cultural backgrounds. The repertory of focus will consist of compositions written in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe, Russia and America (including words by Debussy, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Bartok, Copland), but will also sample music by late twentieth-century composers. Two class meetings and two ear-training sections per week. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or 242, or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16. Professor Móricz.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced work for Honors candidates in music history and criticism, music theory, ethnomusicology, composition, or performance. A thesis, a major composition project or a full-length recital will be required. No student shall elect more than one semester as a double course. A full course.
Spring semester.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024Description for the Fall Semester:
This course is intended for students with little or no background in music who would like to develop a theoretical and practical understanding of how music works. Students will be introduced to different kinds of musical notation, melodic systems, harmonies, meters, and rhythmic techniques with the goal of attaining basic competence in the performance and creation of music. The music we analyze and perform will be drawn from the Western tonal tradition as well as a variety of other musical traditions. Assignments will include notational exercises, short papers, and the preparation of music for classroom performance. This course serves as a prerequisite for many other Music Department offerings. Three class meetings and one lab section per week.
Students with some musical experience contemplating MUSI 111 are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available on reserve in the Music Library and on the Music Department Website (www.amherst.edu/~music/TheoryPlacement.pdf). Students are also encouraged to discuss placement in music theory with a member of the Music Department.
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Professor Schneider.
Description for the Spring Semester:
This course is intended for students with little or no background in music who would like to develop a theoretical and practical understanding of how music works. Students will be introduced into the technical details of music such as musical notation, intervals, basic harmony, meter and rhythm. Familiarity with basic music theory will enable students to read and perform at sight as well as to compose melodies with chordal accompaniment. The music we analyze and perform will draw from the folk, popular, and concert traditions from around the world, including the Western tonal tradition. Assignments will include notational exercises, short papers, and preparation of music for classroom performance. This course serves as a requisite for many of the Music Department offerings. Two class meetings and one lab section per week.
Students with some musical experience contemplating MUSI 111 are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available on reserve in the Music Library and on the Music Department Website (www.amherst.edu/~music/TheoryPlacement.pdf). Students are also encouraged to discuss placement in music theory with a member of the Music Department.
Limited to 30 students. Spring semester. Professor J. Robinson.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025(Offered as MUSI 121 and SWAG 121.) LGBT Perspectives in Popular Music is an introduction to the ways that LGBT people and members of other sexual minorities have participated in popular music as composers, performers, and crucial audiences. In this historical survey of the recorded repertory of (mostly) American popular song, students will acquaint themselves with music in a wide range of vernacular styles and explore the social, political, and aesthetic contexts within which they have appeared. Representative figures in this respect include blues singers like Bessie Smith or Billie Holiday; composers of standards and musicals, such as Cole Porter or Stephen Sondheim; and Post-Stonewall musicians from Alix Dobkin to Rufus Wainwright. The course is designed to be welcoming to non-majors, and knowledge of musical notation and technical vocabulary is not required to enroll.
Limited to 25 students. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 122 and FAMS 376) Introduction to Music and Film acquaints students with the primary concepts and methods used in contemporary scholarship on film music. Through a combination of readings, in-class discussion, and outside film screenings, students will gain skill in the analysis and interpretation of films with special focus on the contributions of sound to the cinematic experience. In addition, the selection of films for study will familiarize students with a broad range of film genres and styles. The course is designed to be welcoming to non-majors, and knowledge of musical notation and technical vocabulary in music or film is not required to enroll.
Limited to 40 students. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble or combo participation. Repertoire will include compositions programmed by directors each semester. Work for the course will include thorough preparation of one’s individual part, intensive listening preparation, and short analytical and historical projects. These courses will culminate with a public performance. 136H-140H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of at least intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
136H-140H may be elected only with the written consent of the ensemble director AND the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course.
b. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same ensemble. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
c. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble or combo participation. Repertoire will include compositions programmed by directors each semester. Work for the course will include thorough preparation of one’s individual part, intensive listening preparation, and short analytical and historical projects. These courses will culminate with a public performance. 136H-140H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of at least intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
136H-140H may be elected only with the written consent of the ensemble director AND the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course.
b. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same ensemble. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
c. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble or combo participation. Repertoire will include compositions programmed by directors each semester. Work for the course will include thorough preparation of one’s individual part, intensive listening preparation, and short analytical and historical projects. These courses will culminate with a public performance. 136H-140H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of at least intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
136H-140H may be elected only with the written consent of the ensemble director AND the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course.
b. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same ensemble. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
c. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble or combo participation. Repertoire will include compositions programmed by directors each semester. Work for the course will include thorough preparation of one’s individual part, intensive listening preparation, and short analytical and historical projects. These courses will culminate with a public performance. 136H-140H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of at least intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
136H-140H may be elected only with the written consent of the ensemble director AND the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course.
b. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same ensemble. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
c. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble or combo participation. Repertoire will include compositions programmed by directors each semester. Work for the course will include thorough preparation of one’s individual part, intensive listening preparation, and short analytical and historical projects. These courses will culminate with a public performance. 136H-140H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must meet the following criteria:
1. Instrumental or vocal proficiency of at least intermediate level as determined by the Music Department.
2. Enrollment in one full-credit Music Department course concurrently with the first semester’s enrollment in performance.
136H-140H may be elected only with the written consent of the ensemble director AND the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course.
b. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same ensemble. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
c. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered151H-180H entail individual performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. For 2015-16 the fee is $720, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Those students who are receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. 151H-180H may be repeated. Students who wish to elect performance for credit must complete Music 111 prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If you test out of Music 111, you must fulfill the requirement of taking one full-credit course concurrently with beginner enrollment or defer it one semester.
151H-180H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator. The following arrangements pertain to the study of performance at Amherst College:
a. All performance courses will be elected as a half course. Senior Music Majors preparing a recital must register for a thesis course instead of a performance course.
b. For 151H-180H, fifty minutes of private instruction (12 lessons per semester) will be given and regular practice is expected.
c. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling degree requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument or voice. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive.
d. A student electing a performance course may carry 4.5 courses each semester, or 4.5 the first semester and 3.5 courses the second semester.
Students should consult with the Music Department Coordinator to arrange for teachers and auditions. Instruction in performance is also available through the Five Colleges with all of the above conditions pertaining. A student wishing to study under this arrangement must enroll through Five College Interchange.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredAdvanced enrollment is reserved for those students who are giving a full recital or an honors recital and must have the chair's approval.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 227 and BLST 244 [US].) One of two courses that trace the development of jazz from its emergence in early 20th-century New Orleans to its profound impact on American culture. Jazz History after 1945 explores the emergence of bebop in the 1940s, the shift of jazz's relationship with American popular culture after World War II, and the dramatic pluralization of jazz practice after the 1950s. We will also look at the emergence of fusion and the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s, and theorize the reformulation of "tradition" during the 1980s. Central to our examination will be the phenomenon of "neoclassicism" common in jazz discourse today, measuring that against the radical diversity of jazz practice around the world. Many figures central to the development of the varied post-bebop directions in jazz will be discussed: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Ornette Coleman, the New York Downtown scene, and many others. Two class meetings per week.
Spring semester. Professor J. Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredSongwriting in Tin Pan Alley is a seminar focusing on the song repertoires associated with the commercial songwriting industry in New York City during the first half of the twentieth century. The course will introduce students to the formal characteristics of music and lyrics as well as some of the most widely admired composers of these songs, and consider the broader social/musical worlds encompassing the repertory. In addition to analysis and interpretation in writing, students will also attempt to craft their own songs in these styles. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2015-16.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course examines the music and cultural impact of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. We will explore the aesthetic, cultural, religious, and media-related aspects of his music within a set of global cultural formations and social transformations. Our focus on Pärt's music and persona will include representations of Pärt in media and scholarship, the use of his music in the films of Tom Tykwer, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Moore, and others, and the impact of record labels like ECM, for instance. This will enable us to engage a number of issues critical to the present age, including the ways in which popular, jazz, classical, and non-Western musics interact, the appeal of spirituality and religious orthodoxy in a secular world, and the ways in which cosmopolitan identity and post-Soviet nationalism are expressed musically. This course will culminate in written, composition, or performance projects. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Omitted 2015-16. Professor Engelhardt.
2023-24: Not offered