Music Minor

Undergraduate Program

The program offers both a major and a minor, as well as courses and activities for the nonmajor. Courses are designed to teach students to listen to music intelligently, develop musical perception, master basic skills of music and apply them creatively, and acquaint students with music from across a braod stylistic, cultural, and historical spectrum. The study of music can open new perspectives on many aspects of culture and society and the program stresses the advantages of combining professional musical development with the humanistic breadth offered by a strong liberal education.

Courses are open to majors and nonmajors. Assignments and projects are designed to suit the different goals and backgrounds of the students in each category.

Program Faculty

John Aylward, Ph.D.
Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D.
Matthew Malsky, Ph.D.

Part-Time Faculty

James Allard,
Mark Berger, Ph.D.

Yohanan Chendler, Ph.D.
Richard Cain, M.Mus.

Matthew Jaskot, D.M.A.
Sima Kustanovich, M.Mus.
Christine Noel, D.M.A.

Sarah Provost, Ph.D.

Dominique Schafer, Ph.D.
Peter Sulski, B.Mus.

Affiliate Faculty

Donald Boothman, B.A.
Chester Brezniak, M. Mus.

Timothy Bowles
Stephanie Busby, M.Mus.
Jonathan Clark, M.Mus.
Deborah Cole,
Michael C. Connors,
Joseph W. D’Angelo,

Karen Driscoll, M. Mus.
Joseph Halko,
Tracy Kraus, M.Mus.

Brooks Milgate, B.A.
Shay Rudolph, M.Mus.
Robert Paul Sullivan,
Douglas Weeks, M.Mus.

Emeriti Faculty

Gerald Castonguay, Ph.D.
Wesley Fuller, M.Mus.
Hartmut Kaiser, Ph.D.

Courses

• GERM 205 - The Total Work of Art and Cultural Criticism from Wagner to the Present
• MUSC 010 - Introduction to Music
• MUSC 012 - Pop Music in the USA
• MUSC 021 - Making Music
• MUSC 100 - Studying Music Historically and Critically
• MUSC 101 - Bach and Before: Studies in Music before 1750
• MUSC 102 - Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods
• MUSC 104 - Music and Modernism in Society, 1885-1945
• MUSC 121 - Theory I: Principles of Tonal Analysis
• MUSC 122 - Tonal Analysis II: Form and Chromaticism
• MUSC 125 - Musical Acoustics
• MUSC 141 - Computers and Music
• MUSC 142 - Recording Practice and Audio Art
• MUSC 225 - Jazz and Popular Music Composition and Performance
• MUSC 242 - Soundtracks
• MUSC 170 - Clark Concert Choir
• MUSC 171 - Clark Chamber Chorus
• MUSC 172 - Concert Band
• MUSC 173 - Chamber Music Ensembles
• MUSC 174 - Jazz Workshop and Combo
• MUSC 180 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice
• MUSC 200 - Audio Culture
• MUSC 201 - Music, Media & Public Spheres
• MUSC 210 - Seminar in Music History and Criticism
• MUSC 216 - Workshop in Music Criticism and Analysis
• MUSC 220 - Theory/Composition Seminar
• MUSC 223 - Theory III: Counterpoint
• MUSC 224 - Theory IV: 20th-Century Practice
• MUSC 230 - Senior Tutorial in Music History
• MUSC 240 - Senior Tutorial in Composition
• MUSC 250 - Tutorial in Jazz Composition
• MUSC 260 - Senior Tutorial in Theory
• MUSC 280 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice (Honors Level)
• MUSC 290 - Capstone Project
• MUSC 297 - Honors
• MUSC 298 - Internship
• MUSC 299 - Directed Study

Nonmajors

All of the courses, seminars,and activities in the music program—with the exception of MUSC 180—are open to qualified nonmajors. Students who have a strong interest in music but whose major lies in another discipline can declare a minor in music. The music minor centers on a core of studies in one of five specific areas.

Performing Organizations

Nonmajors and majors may audition for a variety of organizations which rehearse regularly and perform several yearly concerts. The following musical activities -  MUSC 070 Clark Concert Choir, MUSC 071 Clark Chamber Chorus, MUSC 072 Concert Band, MUSC 073 Chamber Music Ensemble, MUSC 074 Jazz Workshop and Combo, and MUSC 075 Sinfonia -are open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Auditions are held during the first week of each semester. Although no credit is awarded, the transcript of any undergraduate who completes the assigned performance requirements will include a listing of the particular activity for which he or she was registered. Alternatively, all ensembles can be taken for credit if so desired. For each semester of an ensemble, students will receive one half course credit.

Private Lessons

Private lessons for nonmajors and majors are offered with or without course credit in several areas. See MUSC 180 - Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice  (for credit for majors and minors) and MUSC 018 Private Instruction for Instruments and Voice (noncredit).

Preprofessional Programs

Students interested in such professions as music therapy, multimedia, concert management, ethnomusicology, or music education may combine music courses with appropriate courses from other disciplines to create an individually designed major. The requirements for such preprofessional programs are jointly determined by the student and an advisory committee made up of one music faculty member and two faculty members from other disciplines.

Although the music program does not offer specific courses in music education, music majors interested in music education may take courses in the music curriculum, in conjunction with teaching courses through the education department. For more information, contact the education department.