WELCOME TO MUSIC AT YC

The Music Department offers course work and performing opportunities in Western classical music and jazz at the undergraduate level.

Students from all disciplines may participate in music performance ensembles and courses of musical study. The one restriction is that the Sense of Music, MUS 1111A, is the prerequisite to music history courses.

Prospective music majors are welcomed and should seek a consultation with the department advisor, Dr. Bartholomew, as soon as possible to put together a program that reflects their individual needs and interests. Students contemplating the music major should enroll in Diatonic Harmony and Counterpoint I and II (MUS 2111 and 2112) in their first year on campus, if possible.

A fundamental guideline for all students pursuing the major and minor in music is that they should have a healthy balance between academic courses (history, theory, style analysis) and performance courses (chamber ensembles, jazz ensemble, applied music lessons). The study of music and the experience of music should reinforce each other. In this same light, music theory courses (harmony) place an emphasis on writing music.

The Music Department strongly encourages its majors to extend and refine their performance abilities during their student years by enrolling in at least one performance-oriented course each term that they are students. This means that many music majors (and minors, too) frequently take more courses in music performance ensembles and lessons than they are allowed to apply toward their major.

FACILITIES

The Yeshiva College Music Department is housed on the second floor of the Schottenstein Center. A Steinway grand piano resides in the Recital Room, and two other baby grand pianos plus five Baldwin upright pianos are available for practice.

The second floor features four sound-proof practice booths that are available to students until about 1 a.m. each day that the building is open. Additionally, the department supports a MIDI Electronic Music Studio.