Turn your passion for music into profound understanding
Deepen your fascination with music with a minor in music theory and literature. Develop a profound intellectual understanding without having to perform in a musical ensemble.
Join students and faculty who are part of one of the best music departments at any liberal arts college in the nation. Study melody, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, musical notation, scales and modes, pitch form and tonal systems. Learn to analyze dynamics, genre and technique and to apply mathematics and set theory to your understanding of music. Delve deeply into music’s history, theory and literature. Speak with eloquence about articulation and expression while rubbing elbows faculty in a program that attracts the highest caliber musicians and scholars from around the country and the world. Join them and participate in lively philosophical discussions in small classes while you deepen your understanding of the science and history of music.
Receive individual attention from professors who have strong academic credentials and also come from all walks of musical life, from concert performers to nonprofit arts administration and more. Learn to appreciate how and why music is fundamental to the human experience, and this enhanced sense of appreciation is something that will stay with you for your whole life regardless of where your career with take you, just as you will always be a River Hawk.
- 99%
- of students receive financial aid
- 95%
- of students study abroad
