Welcome Class of 2025!
Beginning AY 2021-22, we will offer an open course count model for our concentrations: MUS 99 (Proseminar) plus 10 courses for the Major; or 7 courses for the Minor. More details here.
Our current academic year course offerings are posted on our website. Please note that our courses are subject to change, so continue to check our website along with the Registrar's Office Timetable of Class Meetings often. A complete listing of music courses are posted in the Organization, Regulations, and Courses (ORC).
Both MUS 1 and MUS 20 are intended as welcoming and stimulating introductions to music theory at Dartmouth. There is no placement test for either class. Instead, every student may determine for themselves which course is most suitable. MUS 20 is designed for students with some basic knowledge of music theory (staff notation, simple scales and chords, etc.), whereas MUS 1 assumes no prior experience whatsoever. Please consult our brief guide—A Quick Orientation to Music Theory at Dartmouth—to help you decide.
There are 11 practice rooms available for use located in the lower level area of the Department of Music (map). Practice rooms are available during the hours of the Hopkins Center. No reservations are required. Please note that the grand pianos in rooms 35B, 35C, 36B, 36C are locked and limited to students enrolled in MUS 53 Keyboard Individual Instruction.
For lesson inquiries and audition details for all instruments other than classical piano and voice, you must contact the appropriate IIP faculty member.
Audition procedure for Piano (IIP MUS 53, classical piano): please contact Professor Sally Pinkas (Sally.Pinkas@dartmouth.edu) or Professor Greg Hayes (Gregory.M.Hayes@dartmouth.edu) as soon as possible to discuss MUS 53 auditions. Feel free to do so even if you are unsure whether you will be enrolling in MUS 53 during the fall term. Audition results will remain valid for the 21-22 academic year.
Audition details for Voice (IIP MUS 57) with our two voice instructors, Louis Burkot and Erma Mellinger, will be announced soon. Check back frequently for updates.
Performance Laboratories (Music 50) provide weekly coaching and instruction in diverse forms of music making, and are open by audition to all Dartmouth students. Course work centers on musical readings and informal performance of selected repertoire chosen both for its intrinsic interest and for its relevance to the contents of course syllabi within the Music Department. Performance laboratories may be taken for credit (three terms equals one credit) or on a not-for-credit basis. Subject to space availability, students may enroll in different laboratories during different terms. Terms of enrollment need not be consecutive. Performance Laboratories are offered fall, winter, and spring:
For further information and director contact details, please visit our Performance Laboratories' page.
Contact the appropriate ensemble director for Hopkins Center Ensembles audition details.
Student recitals occur in the spring term. Students work closely with their Indvidual Instruction Program (IIP) instructors on recital preparation, including scheduling rehearsals, hiring accompaniment, preparing a program, and creating publicity materials. Student recitals are posted on the Department of Music's YouTube channel.
Professor Richard Beaudoin
Offered: Fall 2021, ARR
In this advanced seminar for junior and senior music majors, students will apply the knowledge they have acquired throughout their Dartmouth education. Instructors may choose to organize the proseminar around a broad theme (e.g., music & gender, music & politics, etc.). We will welcome guest lectures by various music faculty and visiting experts.
The Honors Program provides an opportunity for work of greater scope and depth than the Music Department's standard course offerings. Honors projects typically take the form of independent work that is undertaken over at least two terms, and supervised by one or more members of the music faculty. Please see example below of one 2020 honors thesis.
Mikrá Yiánnena: Romaniote Chanting for Shabbat Evening in Greece and New York City
Gabriel A. Zuckerberg
