The beautiful Olin Arts Center is home to the department, and offers sunny classrooms, an ample number of good practice and rehearsal rooms \u2013 several with Steinway grand pianos \u2013 a computer music studio, and a fine concert hall.<\/p>\n
We study music from all over the world in our courses, at introductory and advanced levels.\u00a0 All of our courses and performance ensembles are open to general liberal arts students and music majors alike.\u00a0 A secondary concentration (minor) in music is available, and many of our majors pursue interdisciplinary interests or double majors.\u00a0 Concentrations in performance, composition, musicology, and ethnomusicology are available.\u00a0 We are small enough to be able to give all our students a lot of individual attention as they pursue their particular interests, and our departmental philosophy is that we are interested in all the global varieties of human musical expression.<\/p>\n
The Bates Department of Music offers courses in acoustic and digital composition, covering contemporary and experimental musics, popular musics, and sound for visual media. In the Bates Sound Studio<\/i>, located in the Olin Arts Building, there are three fully\u00a0equipped workstations with Macintosh computers, MOTU interfaces, Ableton Push controllers, keyboard MIDI controllers, and software including Reaper, Logic, Ableton, Pure Data, MaxMSP and the Adobe\u00a0Creative Suite, and two additional workstations equipped with the same software. Available on all studio computers are various music notation programs. Additional resources are available through the Bates Digital Media Studios and the Digital Media Equipment Exchange located in Pettigrew.<\/p>\n
Recent thesis compositions by music majors have included film scores, a piano concerto, a jazz suite for big band, a string quartet, and a software suite for processing percussion sounds in real time.\u00a0 For further information, contact Asha Tamirisa (atamiris@bates.edu<\/a>) or Hiroya Miura\u00a0 (hmiura@bates.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n Students interested in studying music\u00a0from a global perspective may take courses in world music,\u00a0music of Southeast Asia, and\u00a0the discipline of ethnomusicology.\u00a0\u00a0Students may study the sitar or the fiddle,\u00a0perform in our steel pan orchestra,\u00a0or in our Indonesian gamelan orchestra, which\u00a0presents dance and shadow puppet dramas.\u00a0For further information, contact Gina Fatone (gfatone@bates.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n We offer lessons in all the major classical instruments and voice, along with the opportunity to perform in our choir, orchestra, and chamber groups\u2014groups in which students sing the solos and occupy the principal chairs.\u00a0 Students learn to analyze classical masterpieces in our four-semester music theory sequence, and they study the music in historical and cultural contexts in courses on the classical tradition, opera and Broadway, music and religion, and the discipline of musicology.<\/p>\n Our courses in popular music, offered in conjunction with the program in African-American Studies, range from introductory courses in jazz and blues, African-American popular music, and electronic dance music to an advanced seminar in Miles Davis.\u00a0 We also offer performance courses in jazz improvisation and jazz guitar, lessons in all the major jazz instruments, and a jazz band program that provides both big band and combo opportunities.\u00a0 For more information, contact Dale Chapman (dchapman@bates.edu<\/a>) or Larry Williams (lwillia4@bates.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n The Department of Music, the Olin Arts Center, and the Office of Student Activities bring an endless stream of performers, from the popular to the experimental, to campus throughout the academic year.\u00a0 The largest part of the musical life of the college, however, comes from the members of the college community.\u00a0 Students perform not just in Music Department ensembles, but in five student-run a cappella groups and in many rock, jazz, and fusion groups.\u00a0 They play folk music in our fiddle ensemble and at contradances.\u00a0 They sing and play in Theatre Department productions, accompany productions of our Dance Program, and give solo performances at the campus coffeehouse.<\/p>\n The beautiful Olin Arts Center is home to the department, and offers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":519,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"The Department of Music at Bates College, including major and minor requirements, courses and faculty.","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-3098","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3098\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}World Musics<\/h2>\n
Western Classical Music<\/h2>\n
Jazz and Popular Music<\/h2>\n
Performance<\/h2>\n
Admission: Submitting Musical Work<\/a><\/h4>\n
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