Students may take proficiency tests for the first year of Music Theory Core courses. Courses which can be assessed Credit by Examination are MUS 101, MUS 102, MUS 151, MUS 152, and MUS 119. These are ...

Previously, we've published a frankly must-read guide on how to build your knowledge of music theory to make better ...

The College of Music’s Graduate Certificate in Music Theory offers a curricular framework for advanced studies in music theory, along with formal acknowledgement of these studies without the more ...

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Our faculty offer a broad array of research specializations that include performance and analysis, theories of rhythm and meter, music-text relations, intertextuality, jazz theory and analysis, ...

How many people reading this right now, can, hand-on-heart really explain what they’re doing when they make music? It might ...

Music theorists and music psychologists may benefit from increasing awareness of each others' discipline. However, it is necessary to delimit the common ground shared by the disciplines and, at the ...

Anyone who has heard the music of Silk Sonic, the R&B superduo comprising Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars, will immediately recognize that it’s heavily steeped in early-’70s soul aesthetics. From just ...