Undergraduate

Courses

The full list of music courses we offer can be found on the Registrar's website. Please note that courses and times are subject to change.

The Timetable of Class Meetings is posted here.

In addition to the courses listed below, the following courses are offered every fall, winter, and spring term: MUS 53–58 (Individual Instruction Program), MUS 50.1–50.3 (Performance Laboratories), and MUS 59.1–59.6 (Hopkins Center Ensemble Performance and Leadership).

MUS 1 | Beginning Music Theory

MUS 3.02 | American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing

MUS 16.02/FILM 41.21 | Music and Media in Everyday Life

MUS 21.01 | Creative Music Theory I

MUS 23 | Timbre and Form

MUS 27/THEA 10.26 | Sound Design

MUS 37.01 | Songwriting 2: Songwriter's Workshop

  • Course description
    The second installment of the 3-course Songwriting sequence is meant for students who have begun a songwriting practice and are prepared for the challenging task of writing and performing a new song every week for 8 weeks. This class demands a rigorous weekly practice of songwriting, listening, sharing and critique. We will look broadly at songwriting techniques from many genres and traditions, and we will acquire powerful tools for unlocking and understanding the musicality that exists in language, and the meaning that can unfold from harmonic, melodic and sonic gestures.
  • Instructor: Cesar Alvarez
  • Time: 6B
  • Location: TBD
  • Instructor Permission Google form  *Required*

MUS 45.13 | Global Sounds

MUS 45.14 | American Music: Roots and Revolutionaries

MUS 46/COLT 40.07/FILM 50.04 | Video Games and the Meaning of Life

MUS 99 | Proseminar