Professors Engelhardt, Móricz, Sawyer, and Schneider; Associate Professors Harper (Chair), and Robinson†; Assistant Professor Coddington*; Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor Pukinskis; Senior Lecturers Diehl and Swanson; and Lecturer Abela.
The Music Department is committed to placing music at the center of the liberal arts experience as an integration of musical practice with scholarship. Our curriculum is built around five core ways of knowing music: through performance, creation, analysis, ethnography, and history. We provide a path for students of any level of musical experience (or none at all) to pursue high-level work as music majors in one or more of these areas. We further aim for all students to find each of these ways of knowing available to them for study, and for music majors to gain experience in each area.
Major Program. The music department works with students to create individualized paths through the major. We encourage students to speak with department faculty as early as possible to develop their personal path. Application to the major normally takes place in the second semester of sophomore year, and must be completed before senior year. At the time of acceptance into the major, students discuss with their department advisor a plan for exploring each of the five ways of knowing music, with a focus on one or more that may involve preparation for an honors thesis.
Students must complete a departmental requirement of eight semester courses, which should include the following: 1. Music 241, a consolidation of skills of musical practice, should be completed before applying to the major.2. A course in Ethnographic Studies should be selected from the following list: MUSI 105, 106, 115, 116, 123, 128, 225, 231, 232, 238.3. A course in Historical Studies should be selected from the following list: MUSI 110, 126, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226, 227.4. A course in analysis for majors should be chosen from MUSI 242, 243, 244.5. Two courses designated as Major Seminars should be selected. 300-level seminars provide the basis for thesis and advanced work; 400-level seminars provide opportunities for advanced, and in many cases, thesis-oriented work. Either of the thesis courses, MUSI 498 and 499, may be counted as one of the two Major Seminars required. Departmental Honors Program. Students apply for senior honors work in the spring semester of their junior year. They may propose a critical/scholarly project (ethnographic, historical, or analytical) or project in musical practice (a composition, performance, or creative recording). The department gives feedback on the proposal at the time of approval. Students considering honors normally fulfill several additional requirements, as follows: 1. Completing MUSI 242, 243, or 244 by the end of their junior year.2. Students doing honors work in jazz (performance, composition, or critical/scholarly work) should complete MUSI 243 and MUSI 226 or 227 by the end of their junior year.3. Students doing honors work in performance are required to take at least two semesters of lessons for credit prior to the senior year and be affiliated with a performance instructor while working on the honors project.4. Students doing honors work in composition should complete MUSI 387 or 388 by the end of their junior year. (MUSI 387 is not a prerequisite for MUSI 388 and either course may be repeated.) Normally, MUSI 269 must be completed in preparation.5. The thesis courses, MUSI 498 and 499, should be elected in senior year. Either one or both is possible, or double thesis credit one semester (MUSI 498D or 499D) and single or no thesis credit the other semester.Points of Entry. Any 100-level course provides a potential starting point for students new to the study of music. 200-level courses are points of entry for students with some musical experience, as specified in the course descriptions.
Fundamentals of Musical Practice (Preparation for further coursework in Performance, Creation, and Analysis). Students should take the self-administered placement exam on the Music Department home page to find the level of course in musical practice best matched to their experience. Music 111, 112 and 113 develop fluency in the practical skills for making music, and explore their use in performance, creation, and analysis.
Fundamentals of Scholarship (Preparation for further coursework in Ethnographic Studies and Historical Studies). Students are offered an introduction to these two ways of knowing music through any of the following courses. Ethnographic Studies: MUSI 105, 106, 115, 116, 123, 128, 225, 231, 232, 238; Historical Studies: MUSI 110, 126, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226, 227.
Individual and Ensemble Performance Instruction. Instrumental and vocal performance instruction is available at beginner (MUSL 151H-183H), intermediate (351H-383H), and advanced (451H-483H) levels. Performance ensembles may also be taken for credit (136H-140) or audited. Please see Performance Instruction descriptions below for complete details.
†On leave fall semester 2021-22. *On leave 2021-22.
This course aims to instill an appreciation of various types of music mainly from the so-called classical tradition of Western music from eleventh-century Gregorian chant through twentieth-century genres such as the American musical, minimalism, and jazz (the blues, swing, bebop, and cool jazz). Additionally, our chronological survey will include genres such as the symphony, the concerto, program music, piano music (Romantic character pieces and ragtime), and opera. In addition to works by long-canonized composers (e.g. Bach, Beethoven, and Gershwin), we will study compositions by musicians who have been excluded from or marginalized in the “classical” canon because of race and/or gender (i.e. Hildegard von Bingen, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, and Fanny Mendelssohn). Assignments include listening to works of music with attention to how its elements combine to convey meaning and emotion, reading historical documents related to our listening, and short writing assignments. No prior experience with “classical” music or the ability to read music required.
Spring Semester. Professor Schneider. Omitted 2021-22.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2023In 1936 the official Soviet newspaper Pravda denounced Dmitri Shostakovich’s latest opera as “muddle instead of music.” In 1942 the Party used his “Leningrad” Symphony as propaganda in the Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany. Shostakovich’s career demonstrates both the unlimited government support and the unlimited control totalitarian states exercise over their artists. This course explores musical life under totalitarian regimes: the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, the GDR, Socialist Hungary, China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, and North Korea. Classes will center on musical works affected by such control, including Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth and his Symphony No. 5, and the Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women. We will watch propaganda films such as Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will as well as films about the perils of totalitarianism such as István Szabó’s Mephisto, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Life of Others, and the documentary From Mao to Mozart. Readings will include Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism and historical documents pertinent to interpreting musical works in their political context. No previous knowledge of music is required.
Fall semester. Professor Moricz.
2023-24: Not offeredThis 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 an intensive writing 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 be encouraged to 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. Professor Robinson. Spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredMiddle Eastern music forms stretch from Morocco to Xinjiang, China and boast a bewildering variety and yet retain distinct continuities in musical structure and performance practice. Music, however, is a contentious issue, or so we are told. Images of Muslims smashing instruments, destroying cassette tapes and radios, and looting music shops circulate continuously on social and news media, purporting to be evidence of the intractability of music and Islam. How should we approach such an apparent paradox? This course approaches questions like this from an ethnomusicological perspective, blending methods and insights from the social sciences and the humanities. We will take a broad view of the modern Middle East, investigating a variety of genres ranging from the most elite court traditions of Persia to bawdy electronic dance music thundering in the open streets of Cairo. Throughout the semester, students will learn to hear and analyze various melodic, organizational, and rhythmic structures, such as maqām and usül, that are unique to the region’s musics. We will explore these features within actual performance practice and place them in historical and social context. Our meetings will include a mixture of lecture, discussion, music performance, and demonstration, while course work will range from listening exercises to short research papers. Two meetings per week.
Fall Semester. Omitted 2021-22.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 108 and PHYS 108) Appreciating music requires no special scientific or mathematical ability. Yet science and mathematics have a lot to tell us about how we make music and build instruments, what we consider harmonious, and how music is processed by the ear and brain. This course will delve into the fundamentals of music theory, perceptual psychology, and physics in exploring such topics as scales and tunings, the physical properties of sound, Fourier analysis, organizing principles of musical forms, fundamentals of instrument construction, vocal sound production, and elements of sound recording and music production. We will consider ways in which science can be part of the creative process as well as the role creativity plays in scientific discovery. The course will include laboratories during the usual class times that cover a variety of topics ranging from basic acoustics to the formants of vowel sounds. The semester will culminate in an artistic or scientific project located at the crossroads of music and science. No background in music or physics is required. Students are expected to be well versed in high-school-level mathematics, but no knowledge of calculus will be assumed.
Spring semester. Limited to 20 students. Professors Sawyer and Friedman
Other years: Offered in Spring 2022, Spring 2023This course examines the life and work of Stephen Sondheim, the influential composer and lyricist of the American musical theater. It will deconstruct Sondheim's craft and artistic imagination with use of his seminal texts "Finishing the Hat" and "Look, I Made a Hat," as well as excerpts from academic writings by Banfield, McLaughlin, Swayne and others. Sondheim's lifelong preoccupation with a disintegrating, illusory "American dream"--through gun violence, racism, classism, mass hysteria/groupthink and the quest for personal connection and community--will also be explored as we examine musicals such as Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Assassins and West Side Story (written with Leonard Bernstein). Course requirements include screenings of Broadway and film performances, listening assignments, guest lectures, group projects/discussions and brief papers.
Lecturer Swanson. Omitted 2021-22. There are no prerequisites and the ability to read music is not required.
In this class we will study the history of the symphony orchestra from its origins in seventeenth-century Europe to the virtuosic ensembles found in many of the world's great cities today. At the heart of our exploration of these groups will be understanding the development of their repertoire by tracing the history of the major genres of orchestral music: symphony, overture, symphonic poem, and concerto. In addition to studying long-canonized musical figures (e.g. Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin), we will study composers and performers who have been marginalized in the "classical" canon because of race and/or gender (i.e. Dean Dixon, William Grant Still, Florence Price, George Walker, and Clara Wieck). Fulfills the "historical studies" requirement for the music major.
No prior experience with symphonic music or the ability to read music is required.
Fall Semester. Professor Schneider.
2023-24: Not offeredThrough composition, analysis, listening practice, and performance, we will build a solid working understanding of many principles of music common in Western musical traditions. The course aims to develop comfort and dexterity in engaging with music via listening, analysis, and creative work. Assignments include harmonizing melodies, writing short melodies and accompaniments, creative representation and listening projects, and annotated analysis. On several occasions we will use our instruments and voices to bring musical examples to life in the classroom and online. We will meet for two synchronous 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 or MUSI 113 is considered a point of entry to MUSI 241, and serves as a prerequisite to many other Music Department offerings. Requisite: MUSI 111, or equivalent ability gained by playing an instrument or singing. Limited to 18 students. Fall semester: Visiting Professor Pukinskis. Spring semester: TBD.
This is a beginner-level course designed to explore jazz harmony and improvisation from theoretical and applied standpoints. Students will study common harmonic practices, modes and scales, rhythmic practices, and the blues, and will learn the historical contexts in which these practices have developed. An end-of-semester performance of material studied during the semester will be required alongside regular individual meetings with the instructor. A one-hour ear training section will be scheduled outside of regular class meetings. Two class meetings and one ear training section 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 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 18 students. Senior Lecturer Diehl.
Most of us listen to music by putting on our headphones and connecting to the internet, but not that long ago, such a feat was physically and technologically impossible. In the space of little more than a generation, there has been a sea change in how we listen to music. What are some of the implications of this transformation? If we are usually alone when we’re doing it, can listening to music still be considered a communal activity? Have we privatized the musical space? Have we democratized it? Has live music become a quaint vestige of the past?
In this course, we will closely examine what is at stake for performers and listeners in live music settings. Through attendance at rehearsals and performances, as well as lectures and panel discussions by guest speakers, we will engage the communities of musicians and listeners in the Pioneer Valley and familiarize ourselves with the rich heritages of music found here. Through reading and writing assignments, we will critically examine how the live music experience changes or stays the same across formats, styles, and cultures: a metal concert in a bar, a hip hop concert in a stadium, a singer-songwriter’s performance in a café, a symphony performance in a concert hall. We will also examine ideas about virtual music that bring into question the very notion of liveness. Coursework includes attendance at roughly one music event per week outside of class.
Limited to 30 students. Fall Semester. Professor Harper. Omitted 2021-22.
2023-24: Not offeredMusic is sometimes portrayed as an abstract art, standing apart from the mundane everyday. However, music has also functioned as a tool for a large range of social and individual purposes throughout human history. Rather than tendentiously opposing these claims--music is an art or it is a tool--this survey course explores the vast diversity of ways that humans have put music to use in their social worlds. Each week we will discuss one function of music (in love and war, medicine, spreading news, education, marking status, protest, identity formation, managing conflict, forming social bonds, propaganda, law, speaking with gods, spirits, and demons, and so on) drawn from all over the world and aim to understand how artistic and functional aspects of music coalesce in human practice. As a final project, students will imagine and develop a use for music in addressing some concrete aspect of their lives.
No prior knowledge of music is necessary. Spring Semester. Visiting Valentine Professor Garvey. Omitted 2021-22.
2023-24: Not offeredHow does a composer create music for a wedding set in 2048 or a designer invent sounds of life on an imaginary planet? How do science fiction authors describe the music and sounds of alternate universes? In this course, the cultural and historical practices that unite science fiction and music are examined through the survey and analysis of a variety of media: the 1950s radio dramas Dimension X and X Minus One; films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and TRON; the Star Trek television franchise and Stranger Things; and the aesthetics of Afrofuturism expressed through Sun Ra, Parliament-Funkadelic, Black Panther, and others. Readings from musicology, sound studies, and literature along with audio/visual examples and reflective writing help us discover how composers, sound designers, and performers create futuristic worlds for entertainment, education, and activism. Coursework will address the socio-political aspects related to the interaction between music, technology, and culture. Students will gain a critical understanding of how radio, film, television, and performance both influence and are influenced by science fiction and music.
Limited to 30 students. Dropped.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course examines the relationship between music, sound, and religion in a broad, comparative perspective. We will devote particular attention to the intersections of religious sounds and racialized and minoritized communities. 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 effects and affects? What happens as sacred sound circulates globally among diverse communities 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 engage with practitioners, scholars, performers, and the sacred sounds of religious communities in Amherst and beyond. Two class meetings per week.
Limited to 25 students. Professor Engelhardt. Spring semester. Regular class meetings will be fully remote; when possible, frequent face-to-face individual and small group meetings will be held.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 126 and BLST 134 [US]) This course examines the cultural origins of hip hop and how this small, minority, Bronx-based subculture expanded into one of the most influential styles of music in the world. This year, the course will focus more on the music’s political potential, analyzing how hip hop artists have wielded their music’s popularity to highlight systemic inequalities and enact social change. The course will begin by analyzing the cultural conditions out of which hip hop arose in the mid-1970s; from there it will turn to examining how hip hop music, over the last thirty-five years, has sounded out the identity of its creators as they have grappled with six major questions: What musical elements are crucial components of hip hop’s sound? What does realness in hip hop sound like, and why does it matter? How have artists negotiated expressing their specific geographic origins while simultaneously embracing globalization? How does this genre fit into the music industry, and how has the music industry affected hip hop? Should hip hop be political, and how should artists express their politics? How have technological developments altered hip hop’s sound? Through answering these questions, students will gain an understanding of how hip hop has developed into the styles that we hear today, and how hip hop has radically transformed American racial politics and popular culture more broadly.
Limited to 18 students. Professor Coddington. Omitted 2021-22. Hyflex format with as much face-to-face learning as possible; online elements of the course will occur via Slack, the course website, and Zoom.
2023-24: Not offeredWhat does it mean when we describe music as mainstream? Who is the intended audience, who are its creators, and what does it sound like? In this introductory course, we will examine mainstream music from the nineteenth century to the present in the context of art and literature. Drawing on sociological theories of taste, critiques of the mass culture industry, studies of the music industry, and critical race theory, we’ll explore such issues as: why, in an increasingly diverse America, the de facto mainstream audience is white and middle class; why major symphony orchestras mostly play music by a select few composers such as Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms; how institutions such as museums, schools, television networks, and record companies work together as gatekeepers to regulate the inclusion of new artistic movements such as pop art, hip hop, rock & roll, and minimalism in the mainstream; and how the internet and the resulting fragmentation of media has given citizens agency to redefine the nature of the mainstream. Reading and listening assignments will help guide class discussions, and students will complete periodic short papers and a final collaborative project.
Limited to 30 students. Omitted 2021-22. Visiting Professor Coddington.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 128 and BLST 344). This course examines the relationship between blues music and American culture. Using Amiri Baraka's influential 1963 book of music criticism, Blues People, as a central text, we will explore ways in which the "blues impulse" has been fundamental to conceptions of African-American identity. At the same time, we will trace the development of African-American music through its connection to West African musical traditions and through its emergence during slavery and the Jim Crow South. Our investigation will survey a number of precursors to the blues, work songs, spirituals, and minstrels and see how these impacted early blues styles, including delta blues, classic blues, and early blues-oriented gospel practices. The blues played a fundamental role in the emergence of new popular musics in the 1940s and 1950s, most notably rock and roll. Embedded within these new musical practices were ideas about African American modernism, urbanity, and self-representation. Culminating in an examination of hip-hop culture, we will analyze the connection between African-American musical practices and larger debates about race, class, gender, and ethnicity. We will see how the blues serves as a mode of activism, and how blues musicians engage questions about racial and ethnic identity through music making.
Limited to 18 students. Professor Robinson. Omitted 2021-22.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2023Musical theater tells its stories through a blend of spoken words in scenes and text in song. In combination with music, words blur the edges between “real life” and “song” in a performance, clouding our understanding of where reality begins and ends in the theater. Text can communicate a message; it can become the driving force for musical motives. Each week in Musical Theater Analysis, we will look at musicals such as The Color Purple, Waitress, Ragtime, Hadestown, and Rent to unpack how music helps tell the story and shape characters through harmony, melody, motivic development, text, and text setting, all working together to shape the overall structure, content, and resultant effect of a performance. We will emphasize musicals written in the past thirty years (or revived after 2000), with a focus on diversity of stories, styles, and composer representation. The musical as a primary source will be supplemented by listening, score study, as well as readings on reception, poetry, and other critical analyses.
Requisite: Must be able to read music and have a basic understanding of music theory. MUSI-111 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Pukinskis.
2023-24: Not offeredMusic and language are intimately connected as forms of communication, meaning, and interaction, but this intimacy has been characterized in many ways in different times and places. In this course, we will explore a variety of the ways in which music and language have been related and made distinct by examining how music and language are understood in different social, historical, and cultural contexts. We will focus on models of musical and linguistic interaction: cooperation in conversation and in group musical performance, linguistic approaches to improvisation in jazz, indigenous theories of sound and political speech, and ritualized musical conflict. By examining both concrete acts of musical and linguistic expression and the concepts surrounding their use, such as sung poetry, oral notation, and sonically mediated musical coordination, we will work toward an integrated understanding of music, language, and social interaction. Prior knowledge of music or linguistics is not required but is helpful. The course will consist of a discussion of several weekly readings and will culminate in a research paper of the student's choosing.
Omitted 2021-22. Visiting Valentine Professor Garvey.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 220 and THDA 220) History of Opera traces opera from its beginnings as a late-Renaissance experiment in re-creating Greek drama to its incarnations in works of the present day. Subjects covered will include genres such as opera buffa and opera seria, concepts such as bel canto, Gesamtkunstwerk, and verismo. The primary focus of the class will be on opera from the so-called common-practice period beginning with works by Mozart through those by nineteenth-century composers such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, and Wagner, and ending with Puccini in the early twentieth century. After an historical overview of operatic styles, we will have an in-depth look at a few operatic masterpieces (likely Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s La Bohème, and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress). Students will be required to participate in group presentations on operas of their choosing.
Requisite: MUSI 112 or 113 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 45 students. Dropped. Professor Schneider.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 221 and EUST 221) Monks living in monastic seclusion, troubadours serving their ladies and fighting wars, mad princes writing complicated polyphonic music, male castrato singers celebrated as the pop-stars of opera houses are just a few of the fascinating characters who participated in music making from the Middle Ages until the middle of the eighteenth century in Europe. The music they produced is frequently called "early music," a falsely unifying label that hides the kaleidoscopic nature of this fantastic repertory, ranging from monophonic chant to opera. In this course we will study how the invention of musical notation affected the development of music, turning an oral tradition of chant into a written tradition of complex polyphonic textures unimaginable without the help of notation. Reading historical documents and listening to selected pieces of music, we'll visit the soundscape of this bygone time that still influences our thinking about music. Assignments include listening, reading, and short papers. Knowledge of musical notation at least at the rudimentary level is recommended.
Requisite: MUSI 112 or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Móricz. The course will be offered Hyflex with as much individual/in-person contact as practical.
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. Occasionally we will attend concerts in Amherst and elsewhere. Composers to be studied include Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky, 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 the music with historical-cultural interpretation. Readings will focus on Gibbs/Taruskin Oxford History of Western Music with additional historical documents and selected critical and analytical studies. 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. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Moricz.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 223 and EUST 223) Two World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the dropping of the atomic bomb were cataclysmic events that made the twentieth century one of the most traumatizing time periods in human history. And yet music did not fall silent. Composers continued writing music, giving aural expression to symptoms characteristic of the condition of modernism. How did Richard Strauss's opera Salome about a necrophiliac princess lusting for a severed head become one of the most successful operas in Europe? Why did Stalin alternately persecute and reward the Soviet Union's most talented composer, Dmitri Shostakovich? Why did composers insist on writing unlistenable, incomprehensibly complex music after World War II? Listening to a wide variety of music from Mahler to Kaija Saariaho, reading historical documents and other relevant essays, we'll explore symptoms of modernism and how composers and their music interacted with their culture milieu and historical context. Assignments will include regular listening, periodic short papers, and a culminating project.
This course will be taught in person.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or 112, or consent of the instructor. January semester. Professor Moricz.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2023(Offered as MUSI 225 and FAMS 375) Jazz occupies a special role in the development of American film. From The Jazz Singer (1927), the first American film that included synchronized sound, to the sprawling Jazz: A Documentary (2001) from Ken Burns, filmic representations of jazz speak to fundamental ways that Americans negotiate difference and imagine national identity. This course examines the relationship between jazz and American culture through three modalities: improvisation, narrativity, and representation. How might jazz improvisation influence the construction of film? Is there an "improvised film"? Moreover, jazz musicians often speak about "telling stories" through their music. How might this influence narrative structure in film and inform the ways that stories about jazz musicians are constructed in film? How might this influence narrative structure in film? And how might these stories about jazz musicians reflect larger debates about race, gender, sexuality and nationality? Assignments will include guided viewing of several important jazz films, required reading, and a series of essays.
Limited to 18 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2011, Spring 2019, January 2021(Offered as MUSI 226 and BLST 334 [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. This course 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. As an exception for fall semester of 2020, students may petition to have the course fulfill a departmental seminar requirement for the Music major. Students wishing to do this will be required to complete an additional research project.
Limited to 18 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredHow do the works that artists create come to mean something to their audiences, to make us cry, make us swoon, or make our blood boil? How do these objects and performances come to be connected to ideas, how do they affect our bodies, and why? This course explores the ways that visual and performing artists use the body to imbue their work with meaning. Students examine such concepts as the narrative, myth, transcendence, semantic power, and notions of individual and collective identity. Coursework will include a combination of reading, writing, and music making and visual art creation. No prior experience as a musician or visual artist is necessary. Two class meetings per week.
Limited to 30 students. Dropped.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 445 and ANTH 445) If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? A provisional answer from the field of sound studies is: no, the falling tree produces vibration, but does not make a sound absent a listening, hearing human subject. Take another step, and we arrive at ethnomusicologist John Blacking’s time-honored (but not unproblematic) definition of music as “humanly organized sound” and “soundly organized humanity.” In this seminar, we linger at the intersections of sound and music, listening and hearing to learn about the human. What happens as we encounter music, sound, and voice as forms of vibration available to our senses rather than as texts and sonic objects? How are listening and hearing culturally specific practices shaped by particular histories, identities, technologies, hierarchies of the senses, capitalist desires, human ecologies, concepts of ability and disability, and the work of performers, scholars, and sound artists? In addressing these questions through readings in music, sound, media studies, and anthropology, media projects and listening exercises; we will employ what Pauline Oliveros calls “deep listening” (an ethical practice of listening to others and to music) as a research methodology. Seminar work will benefit from visiting scholars and artists and culminate in scholarly, creative, or media-based projects designed in consultation with the professor. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: Music 241 and 242, or consent of the instructor. Omitted 2021-22. Professors Engelhardt and Harper.
2023-24: Not offeredIn this intensive seminar, we will gain both technical mastery of the tools of the fieldwork trade—audio recorders, microphones, playback analysis software—and practical expertise in some basic methods of conducting fieldwork for musical research. Over the course of the seminar, students will make recordings in a variety of real-world settings, and we will evaluate these recordings in order to build skills necessary to conduct basic research on contemporary musics. These recordings will require significant initiative, requiring work and travel outside of the seminar. Together, during our weekly meetings, we will read and discuss methodological and theoretical texts to help frame our current or future research projects. The seminar will conclude with students designing a research proposal whose questions and hypotheses can be addressed with the fieldwork techniques mastered during the course. Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111, 112, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 12 students. Omitted 2021-22. Visiting Valentine Professor Garvey.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 238, ANTH 239 and FAMS 312) This course is about exploring, participating in, and documenting the musical communities and acoustic terrain of the Connecticut River Valley. The first part of the course will focus on local histories and music scenes, ethnographic methods and technologies, and different techniques of documentary representation. The second part of the course will involve intensive, sustained engagement with musicians and sounds in the Amherst vicinity (and beyond). 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 soundscapes projects. We will also benefit from visits and interaction with local musicians. Two class meetings per week. Visit http://www.valleysoundscapes.org/ for more information.
Limited to 12 students. Spring semester. Professor Engelhardt.
2023-24: Not offeredAs musicians, we sometimes forget how powerful harmony is. We casually drop the term in conversation. We think of it as common knowledge. Well, in a way, it is. Emerging in the 17th century in Western Europe and eventually spreading to many places around the world, this musical system has come to play a tremendous role in our perception of musical structure and our emotional experience as listeners.We find harmony in concert halls, coliseums, and coffeehouses, jazz clubs, movie theaters, and mosh pits. Inextricably bound to our digital-download algorithms for "happy", "focus-flow", and "lo-fi cool down", it is built into our playlists. Through composition, analysis, dictation and performance, we will develop theoretical and practical tools to cultivate a deep understanding of the conventions of tonal harmony across a variety of styles. We will use counterpoint - the combination of melodic lines - to amplify our examination.
This course is the first of the required music theory sequence for majors. Three 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 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.
Limited to 18 students. Professor Sawyer: Fall semester. Professor Harper: Spring semester.
2023-24: Not offeredMusic has the capacity to make us aware of the flow of time. Music theorists tried to capture this quality by describing music’s form, which, no matter how we define it, remains an abstraction. In this course we explore how tonal music unfolds in time, looking at the form of pre-tonal music by Lasso and investigating the gradual dramatization of the tonal process as it interacts with form in the works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. In the second half of the course we will consider the branching and fracturing of form in tonal music as it corresponds to the evolution of tonality in the 19th, 20th, and 21st-centuries. Topics include counterpoint, Baroque dances, liturgical forms, the sonata, song forms (classical, jazz, musical theater, popular music), and music with other media.Fulfills one of the required music theory sequences for majors. Two lectures and two ear-training section per week.
Requisite: Music 241 or consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Pukinskis.
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 one of two required courses for the theory and analysis requirement for the music major.
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. Dropped. Professor J. Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course engages global music theories from the perspective of ethnomusicology and analytic approaches drawn from sound studies. The music we analyze will come from popular, folk, and classical traditions around the world, including West African drumming, Caribbean dance genres, East Asian court and religious traditions, American roots music, classical traditions from the Arab world and Indian subcontinent, and several global popular styles. At its core, the course addresses three questions: What do musicians working in the traditions we study hear in and think about the music they make? What methods are available to better understand these kinds of music? How does analysis develop our skills as musicians and listeners? Students will learn methods of musical transcription (notating or visually representing sound) and software-aided analysis to develop translatable ways of approaching timbre, texture, rhythm, groove, meter, harmony, mode, tuning, and musical form. Understanding the ways people theorize music in the process of performance, improvisation, composition, and teaching across musical cultures will give students new tools for creating, performing, and analyzing music. Although not a performance course, class sessions feature hands-on involvement with instruments and singing. Coursework includes weekly listening, transcription, and analysis assignments; basic projects in composition; and music-making presentations.
This is an upper-level musicianship course designed for majors or students with experience analyzing and performing music. This course may be used to fulfill the second required musicianship course (in addition to MUSI 241) for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 241 or consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Professor Engelhardt.
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. Admission with consent of the instructor. 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 course 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 2021-22. Senior Lecturer Diehl.
2023-24: Not offeredIn this course we will examine the history of electroacoustic music in tandem with practical composition assignments so that we may explore how class, race, gender, and sexuality are expressed through sound and music technologies. This course introduces soundscape composition, a subset of electroacoustic music, as an artistic practice and research method. Students will use journaling in order to document their individual relationships with music and to reflect on the role sound plays in the formation of personal and community identity. Weekly assignments include the creation of autobiographical sound pieces that incorporate techniques and practices that emerged out of the musique concrète school of Paris and the Elektronische Musik of Cologne. Together we will learn to listen to our acoustic environment in a new way, explore self-identity through field recordings and synthesis, and develop our ideas into fixed media compositions to be shared at the end of the semester. The course readings are selected from various disciplines, and all students are welcomed regardless of previous musical experience.
Omitted 2021-22. Visiting Professor Jackson.
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 112 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 10 students. Dropped. Visiting Professor Jackson.
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 12 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredThe writing of songs based upon a study of song forms in a variety of styles, including blues, rock, Tin Pan Alley, American folk song, and more. A composition course with much individual attention. Significant class time will be spent discussing student compositions, with occasional meetings with the instructor outside of class hours. Special attention will be paid to the interactions of African American, Latin American, and European American musical traditions in American popular song. The creation of lyrics will also be considered. Two class meetings per week.
For the 2021 academic year, this course will fulfill the music major requirement represented by MUSI 242/243/244. Students wishing to fulfill this requirement will have occasional additional meetings with the instructor outside of class hours on topics of advanced harmonic usage to be employed in their song writing.
Requisite: Students should have some background in music performance, chords, or writing. Students fulfilling the MUSI 242/243/244 requirement must have completed MUSI 241. Limited to 12 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Sawyer.
2023-24: Not offeredWhat does it mean to compose? What do you need to know in order to do it? We will investigate the practice of music composition across recent decades and create original work inspired by the music and techniques we encounter. We will study the use instruments and voices, how to provide a clear musical score for interpretation by performers, and how improvisation and technology can inform and become part of a composition. Students may bring any style or tradition to the table. The class will focus especially on three lineages through the twentieth century into the twenty-first: modern Western art music, instrumental music from the African-American tradition, and the gamut of American popular song. Each composition will be presented in class, with the assistance of performers from inside and outside the class. We will develop the skill of providing one another constructive feedback. The class will culminate in a concert performance of final compositions.Two class meetings per week.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or 112, and consent of the instructor. Limited to 10 students. Fall semester. Professor Sawyer.
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, mastering a range of repertory choices from the past and present. Ensembles will include both student and artist musicians, preparing works together for performance through 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. This course may be repeated.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Schneider.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015How can I participate in the conversations about music and sound I am studying? This seminar creates space for students to answer that question by experiencing a range of music and sound research in the context of the liberal arts. Our focus is on students developing research projects that can lead to thesis work, summer fellowship and internship opportunities, and other new directions in their intellectual and artistic lives. In the spirit of music as a liberal art, we will engage with research oriented toward learning about what is possible in performance and creation, understanding sound and style through analysis, and using historical and ethnographic methods to interpret music's social significance. And in the same spirit of music as a liberal art, we will explore how music and sound afford innovative approaches to research in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. As a community, students will work with visiting scholars and artists, research staff at the Frost Library, publishing and media professionals, and Amherst College graduates at developing research projects aligned with their intellectual and artistic interests, experimenting with research methodologies, and communicating their research in accessible ways to diverse audiences. Throughout this seminar, we will maintain critical interest in how issues of representation and inclusion shape research in music and sound—what gets researched, and who is able to do that research? Seminar work will be varied, moving from reading, listening, and discussion to writing and media workshops, mini-conferences, and opportunities for peer feedback. Ultimately, students will craft research proposals and produce early-stage research that are useful beyond the frame of the seminar itself, seeding future work at Amherst College and beyond. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Engelhardt.
How is hip hop made, and why does it sound the way it does? In this course, we will examine the history of hip hop production by creating hip hop, analyzing how technological inventions and changing aesthetic practices have contributed to the sound and style of hip hop’s beats. Through close listening, together with reading first-person accounts, critical reviews, musical instrument manuals, ethnographies, and musical analyses, students in this course will develop a historical understanding of the aesthetics and musical contributions of important hip hop producers and how these producers have embraced new technologies and instruments. Informed by this historical background, students will compose hip hop beats using a variety of instruments and software and using celebrated tracks by producers such as Rick Rubin, the Bomb Squad, the Dust Brothers, Organized Noize, J Dilla, and Metro Boomin as models for their compositions.
Requisite: MUSI 126/BLST 134 or the equivalent, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Coddington.
2023-24: Not offeredDrawing from the rich and varied history of composition in jazz, this course explores composing and arranging approaches in jazz and highlights the dynamic relationship between composition and improvisation central to this music. Using historical examples as models, students will compose and arrange small ensemble, large ensemble, and big band pieces, including pieces that incorporate blues forms, 32-bar Tin Pan Alley forms, modalism, extended and through-composed forms, and open improvisation. Immersive composition projects will be combined with individual meetings. To the extent possible, student compositions will be performed and recorded by professional or student musicians in a workshop setting.
Requisite: MUSI 243 or MUSI 269 and consent of the instructor. Students are also encouraged to complete MUSI 113, MUSI 226, or MUSI 227 prior to electing MUSI 387. Limited to 12 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offeredImmersive composition projects according to the needs and experience of the individual student, deepening the experience gained in courses of study like Music 269. One class meeting per week and weekly private conferences. Guest composer presentations in a workshop environment and discussions on compositional topics. This course may be repeated; topics and projects change each semester. Music 387 and Music 388 need not be taken in order.
Requisite: MUSI 269 or the equivalent, and consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Visiting Professor Pukinskis.
2023-24: Not offeredA continuation of MUSI 387. One class meeting per week and weekly private conferences. This course may be repeated. Spring 2022 will feature a semester-long project where students compose a new piece for a professional vocal trio.
Requisite: MUSI 269 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. The department.
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 420, EUST 320 and THDA 320) This course examines the two genres of lyric theater (opera and musical) with special attention to composers’ musical characterizations of the women and men who populate them. The first part of the class will focus on case studies of works by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Rogers & Hammerstein, and Sondheim. Analyzing these works will help us develop an understanding of how composers work with conventions of vocal type and musical gesture to define character. The second part of the class will be devoted to developing independent research projects. Health conditions permitting, some of the works studied will be chosen in coordination with performances we can attend in New York or Boston.
Spring semester. Professor Schneider.
2023-24: Not offeredMusic often serves as one of the primary ways that we create and maintain identities. Our social groups--peers, colleagues, acquaintances--are often determined by shared affinities for specific musical styles, artists, and the world views they come to represent. Yet music is also frequently used to catalyze various forms of social and political activism, challenge our relationship to society and structures of power, and initiate change. This seminar explores the nature of popular music and its relationship to culture, politics, and identity. The first part of the course surveys popular music studies and the various trends in cultural studies that have prompted new ways of examining the relationship between popular music and social and cultural identities. We will use these tools to analyze an array of popular music cultures in and beyond the United States. The second part of the course focuses on developing multifaceted research projects that put these theories to use. Students will be encouraged to combine ethnographic research (interviews, location-based research) with historical and critical analysis to generate a unique, personal project exploring the relationship between music and identity. Two class meetings per week. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI-111 or consent of the instructor. Spring semester. Professor Robinson.
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. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 440 and SWAG 440) How do popular musicians express their identity through their music? And how do listeners explore their own identities by consuming and interacting with this music? This course explores how American popular music of the last sixty years has expressed the race, gender, and sexual identities of its performers and consumers, and how the music industry has affected the production and meaning of popular music from the 1950s into the present, through rock and roll, soul, country, hip hop, and more. Combining historical and cultural inquiries with the analysis of recorded music, students in this course will examine how popular musicians sound their identity while simultaneously resisting essentialism, analyze how musical sounds are shaped by the gender politics of their specific cultural context, and evaluate how the music industry encourages and challenges racial inequality. Seminar work will culminate in a creative research project designed in consultation with the professor. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 111 or consent of the instructor. Dropped. Assistant Professor Amy Coddington.
2023-24: Not offeredThe music industry is quickly changing. Over the last year, the concert touring industry has been devastated, as concerts have been cancelled en masse due to the pandemic. Meanwhile, increasing attention has been placed on the racial inequality of the music industry, an industry where white artists and executives over the last century profited from unfairly compensating black musical expression. How are artists and record companies making money in our contemporary moment, and how does that compare to the past?
In this seminar we will analyze the myriad of ways music is sold to the public, focusing on music’s role as a commodity which monetizes musical expressivity. We will start the semester by examining the structure of the music industry, interviewing musicians about their current circumstances to shed light on how the music industry is organized. We will also explore how artists situate themselves in a musical ecosystem quickly evolving thanks to technological innovations and new venues for listener engagement such as TikTok, Patreon, and Soundcloud. Then, we will expand to a more historical perspective, focusing on the ways that the music industry has profited from selling racialized sounds. Through analyzing advertisements and speaking with industry professionals, we will better understand the racial politics of how music is sold to the public as well as how music is used to sell other products while simultaneously selling itself. Students will engage in a semester-long research project focusing on an artist or company of their choice; reading assignments alongside primary source research will help provide context and content for the research project. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Limited to 15 students. Omitted 2021-22. Professor Coddington. Course will be taught synchronously over zoom, with additional online elements occuring on slack and the course website.
Other years: Offered in Fall 2023Romantic composers loved to escape from the realities of every life into the perilous virtual worlds they created in their music. How can we explore these worlds and understand the technical means with which they were created? How can we interpret the splendid sound of music by using words whose discursive strength seems to endange music's ephemeral nature? Through close reading of nineteenth-century music by Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms, we will explore the possibilities of musical expression and meaning, searching for parallels between poetic and musical interpretation. Works will be considered from a number of different analytical perspectives including methods current in the nineteenth century and those developed more recently. Writing assignments will combine technical analysis with petic interpretation.
Two class meetings and two ear-training sections per week. Fulfills the departmental seminar equirement for the major.
Requisite: MUSI 242, 243, or 244. Fall semester. Professor Móricz.
2023-24: Not offeredHow can we recognize a composer's voice in different pieces of music? How do composers develop a personal style? In this seminar we will study what constitute composers' personal style. Our primary text will be compositions by strong personalities from twentieth-century music, among them Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Olivier Messiaen, whose style had a disproportionately large influence on composers coming after them. We will learn to read and understand their complex scores and to write about them in a way that explains both their compositional technique and captures the particular sonic world of their music. For their final projects, students will analyze the style of a composer of their choice or of their own developing compositional voice. 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 2021-22. Professor Móricz.
2023-24: Not offeredThis course prepares students to undertake substantial individual research in jazz history, theory, composition, or performance. Research in jazz takes many forms and draws from the varied methodologies of musicology, music history, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and theories of improvisation. Reading, listening, and viewing assignments will introduce students to these varying research methodologies, offering powerful tools for furthering their own interests in jazz. Influential case studies in jazz research will be the focus of the course’s four units. Students will engage in a semester-long research project of their own design, which will be developed in close consultation with Professor Robinson and will benefit from several peer review components. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Omitted 2021-22. Professor Robinson.
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. The Department.
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 2024This 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 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 provide an introduction to the composition of melodies with chordal accompaniment. The music we analyze and perform will draw from folk, popular, and concert traditions. Assignments will include oral and written exercises, and preparation of music for class performance. This course serves as a requisite for many Music Department offerings.
Students with some musical experience contemplating MUSI 111 are encouraged to take a self-administered placement exam available at 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 20 students. Fall semester: TBD. Spring semester: Professor Moricz. Two class meetings and one ear training section per week.
(Offered as MUSI 227 and BLST 344 [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. This course 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.
Omitted 2021-22. Professor Harper.
2023-24: Not offered(Offered as MUSI 449 and ANTH 449) This seminar explores the sound and significance of the human voice in broad perspective. What do we communicate with our voice? Why are certain voices powerful or unforgettable? How are voices culturally shaped and constrained? How do people use their voice along the continuum between speech and song? What happens when the voice turns text into sound? What does it mean in terms of politics and personhood to have a voice? How does vocal sound relate to knowledge of the body and ideas about race, gender, and identity? To engage these questions, we will begin by examining the classic premise that the voice is a sonic medium for music, language, and other forms of communicative expression whose production (singing, speaking, vocalizing) and uptake (listening, recognizing, empathizing) are basic to social life and inhabiting one's environment. Throughout the term, we will push this premise in critical new directions by remembering that song and language affect us because the voice is not merely a medium. What Roland Barthes famously describes as "the grain of the voice" is its profound, compelling sonic presence beyond its role as a medium. Thinking about the significance of vocal sound and timbre in this light, we will explore a host of voices and vocal styles from throughout the world, including how we use our own creatively, in performance, and relative to the constraints of a voice-impacting global pandemic. We will listen and read widely, benefiting from each others' experience and insights as well as those of singers and scholars who will join us. Fulfills either the departmental seminar requirement or the comprehensive exam requirement for the major.
Omitted 2021-22. Professor Engelhardt.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble 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 other projects. These courses will culminate in public performances. Performance courses will be elected as a half course and may be repeated. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major 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. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements.
Half credit. Fall and spring semesters.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble 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 other projects. These courses will culminate in public performances. Performance courses will be elected as a half course and may be repeated. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major 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. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements.
Half credit. Fall and spring semesters.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble 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 other projects. These courses will culminate in public performances. Performance courses will be elected as a half course and may be repeated. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major 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. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements.
Half credit. Fall and spring semesters.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble 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 other projects. These courses will culminate in public performances. Performance courses will be elected as a half course and may be repeated. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major 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. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements.
Half credit. Fall and spring semesters.
2023-24: Not offered136H-140H entail the study of musical performance through ensemble 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 other projects. These courses will culminate in public performances. Performance courses will be elected as a half course and may be repeated. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major 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. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements.
Half credit. Fall and spring semesters.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2023MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in 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 2024MUSL 151H-183H entail individual beginner performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 151H-183H may be repeated. Students must complete MUSI 111 concurrently or prior to enrolling in beginner lessons or demonstrate equivalent competency. If a student places out of MUSI 111, they must complete one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after beginning individual instruction. MUSL 151H-183H may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course toward fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
Other years: Offered in Spring 2023, Fall 2023MUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrument or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrument or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrument or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not stricly required, the Music Department urges that the two semester be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 351H-384H entail individual intermediate performance instruction and have a fee associated with the course. The fee is $775, for which the student is fully committed following the end of the add/drop period. Students receiving need-based scholarship assistance from Amherst College will be given additional scholarship grants in the full amount of these fees. MUSL 351H-384H may be repeated, may be elected only with the consent of the Department Coordinator, and will consist of 12 weekly lessons of 50 minutes. A minimum of 5 hours of weekly individual practice is expected. Instrumental or vocal proficiency at the intermediate level is determined by the Music Department. Enrollment in one full Music Department course before, concurrently, or one semester after taking intermediate individual instruction is required. Two half courses in performance may be counted as the equivalent of one full course for fulfilling major requirements. These two half courses must be in the same instrument. Though not strictly required, the Music Department urges that the two semesters be consecutive. Non-majors or majors not using performance courses to fulfill major requirements may combine performance half-courses with other half courses to fulfill degree requirements. Students should consult with the 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. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offeredMUSL 451H-483H is reserved for students giving a senior recital or an honors recital in their final year and must have the Department Chair's approval. MUSL 451H-483H may be repeated.
Half credit. Fall and spring semester. Remote instruction unless face-to-face instruction is possible.
2023-24: Not offered