Hartt offers minors in music history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Information about each of these degrees is given below.
Full TimeHartt’s music history program enables you to explore an array of global and Western music in their historical and cultural contexts. From broad survey courses to in-depth seminars, majors, and minors, you gain a comprehensive understanding of music as an artistic and cultural phenomenon.
Hartt offers a Bachelor of Music, a Master of Music, and a minor in music history. Information about each of these degrees is given below.
An important feature of Hartt’s curriculum is the offering of flexible, elective courses suited to your interests and needs. Electives are designed with students in mind and have included opera history, string quartet literature, video game music, music and emotions, music of India, and critical editing. Students may also take courses about jazz and African-American musical traditions in Hartt’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.
In addition to Hartt’s rigorous coursework, students may participate in a number of performance organizations, including our Baroque ensemble, the Collegium Musicum. Hartt’s wide collection of early instruments, including recorders, Renaissance lutes and flutes, harpsichords, clavichord, Baroque bows, shawms, and sackbuts, are available and provide you with an active and creative learning environment.
The minor in music history is open to all Hartt and non-Hartt undergraduate students who wish to broaden their experience in this subject.
Hartt graduate students may complete a minor in music history, scholarship and research, or music history pedagogy. The latter offers students who are focused in fields such as performance, composition, or conducting an opportunity to become well-rounded candidates for educational positions in which they may teach music history courses.
Undergraduate students must complete 18 credits; graduate students must complete 18.5 credits.
Applicants must interview with the music history department chair and secure their approval for admission.
Steps for requesting a minor
Applicants must interview with the music history department chair and secure their approval for admission. Students may choose between an emphasis in music history or an emphasis in music history pedagogy.
Steps for requesting a minor
The music history faculty at Hartt is unique, and each enjoys a dual career as a performer and a scholar. The music history faculty specialize in topics that span the history of notated Western music, ranging from medieval music theory and performance to twentieth-century modernism, from opera and German Romantics to film and video game music, from Händel to hip hop. They also engage with their music history communities from a multitude of perspectives, drawing not just on traditional, historical methods but also on methodologies stemming from ethnomusicology, ludomusicology, cognitive and psychological theories, and other approaches.
Hartt music history faculty have recently published work in respected journals such as Plainsong & Medieval Music, Musica Disciplina, Music and Letters, Journal of Musicological Research, Music Analysis, Early Music America, and Händel-Jahrbuch; in various Oxford Handbooks and Bibliographies; and in Bärenreiter scores.
This program trains musicians to become music production professionals. Through study in music, electronics and acoustics, you will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to work in the professional audio industry.
Hartt offers a minor in Music Theory at the undergraduate and graduate level. View the program details for more information.