{"id":7,"date":"2010-06-02T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/music\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:50:57","slug":"academic-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/academic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music<\/h3>

Professor Chapman; Associate Professors Fatone (chair), Miura, and Tamirisa; Assistant Professor Kuriyama; Visiting Assistant Professor Goldford.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Department of Music gives students the opportunity to study music from cultural, historical, theoretical, psychological, creative, and interpretive perspectives, including study of Western and non-Western classical, popular, and experimental musical traditions. Most of the courses offered are suitable for general liberal arts students. Music majors and minors have the opportunity to pursue individual interests in depth. In recent years, students have completed interdisciplinary and double-major programs including substantial work in music.<\/p>\n

MUS\u00a0101<\/span> Introduction to Listening<\/span>, MUS\u00a0103<\/span> Music in World Cultures<\/span>, MUS\u00a0110<\/span> Music Theory for Beginners<\/span>, MUS\u00a0212<\/span> How Music Performs Culture: Introduction to Ethnomusicology<\/span>, and MUS\u00a0249<\/span> African American Popular Music<\/span>\u2014courses introducing musical traditions and concepts\u2014are open to all students without prerequisite. MUS\u00a0231<\/span> Music Theory I<\/span> is the beginning course in music theory; students considering a major or minor in music should take it as early as possible. Students seeking to begin course work in music theory (MUS\u00a0110<\/span> Music Theory for Beginners<\/span> or MUS\u00a0231<\/span> Music Theory I<\/span>) should contact the chair of the music department to arrange a placement exam by the beginning of the semester. MUS\u00a0218<\/span> Soundscapes: Recording and Designing Sound<\/span>, DCS\u00a0219<\/span> Composing Sonic Systems<\/span>\/MUS\u00a0219<\/span> Composing Sonic Systems<\/span>, and MUS\u00a0235<\/span> Music Composition<\/span> are introductory courses in composition. MUS\u00a0270<\/span> Applied Music<\/span>, private instruction in vocal or instrumental performance, is open to first-year students with permission of the instructor. MUS\u00a0290<\/span> Musical Ensemble Performance<\/span>\u00a0is open to any student who qualifies to participate in one of the department’s faculty-directed performing organizations: College Choir, College Orchestra, Gamelan Ensemble, Jazz Band, Jazz Combo, and Steel Pan Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n

More information is available on the Music department website<\/a>.<\/p>

Curriculum<\/h5>