Music General

The most intensive of all our music programs, admission to the Bachelor of Music program is dependent on a successful performance audition and the completion of a music rudiments placement test. All Bachelor of Music students take a common first year that includes instrumental lessons, courses in music theory, music history, aural skills, and large ensemble, English, and one option outside the Department of Music. At the end of the first year, once the student has had the opportunity to assess their particular strengths and interests, a specific route of study is normally identified.Music belongs to everyone. It evokes the look and feel of our time and of times past. People will always make music, but great music needs people with the power to create it and the power to understand it. In the Department of Music, we want to share that power with you. The Department of Music offers programs in a range of fields: the academic fields, including music history, music theory and world music studies, and the performance fields, mostly in classical music but also selectively in jazz. Students may choose to earn credits by participating in one or more of our 15 performing ensembles, which include orchestras, concert choirs and bands, jazz choirs and bands, opera workshops and world music ensembles.

Field of study: Music, General