Featuring the Amherst College Glee Club and Concert Choir with guest artist Haitham Haidar, the performance includes the world premiere of "Ma Ziltu Hayyan," by Jordanian-Palestinian-Canadian composer, Shireen Abu-Khader.
In this course students 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.
In this course, we will examine rhythmic traditions within their historical, social, and cultural contexts, develop ways of understanding rhythms across cultures and traditions, and learn how to hear and perform rhythms of various traditions.
This seminar considers how key moments in the evolution of music technology have reflected historical, social, cultural, and political contexts.
Going into Amherst, I knew I wanted to pursue music as a hobby, taking music classes here and there, but I never wanted to become fully immersed in it as I worried I would lose the passion that I carried with me for more than a decade. As I took more and more classes, however, this passion never faded, but only grew. There were so many sides to music I had never experienced before and the aspects that I was familiar with were far more deep than I had anticipated. This fostered a curiosity within me, causing me to declare music as my second major, alongside computer science.