Learning Goals in the Music and Technology Major

Music offers an interdisciplinary major in Music and Technology. In addition to a core curriculum shared with the major in Music, students receive training specific to music technology and they select electives from such departments as Art, Computer Science, Film Studies, Mathematics, and Physics. In completing the major curriculum all students will develop a wide set of proficiencies.

Knowledge Base

• Comprehend the chief historical styles of Western music from the Classical period to the present, including electro-acoustic music.
• Acquire a working knowledge of tonal systems and elements of modernism.
• Develop an advanced technical knowledge of musical acoustics, recording techniques, control-voltage synthesis, and sampling and mixing software.

Creativity

• Compose with the materials of electro-acoustic music.
• Prepare compositions for public performance.

Musicianship

• Develop skills in aural reception, sight singing, and the keyboard.
• Aurally recognize significant electro-acoustic works.

Beyond the College

• Participate in the professional world of electro-acoustic music.
• Discover a set of vocational possibilities related to music technology.