Program Overview

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Overview

The undergraduate music history program will challenge you to think critically about music. Course materials explore topics like the place of music in different cultural contexts, the social condition of musicians, the evolution of performing styles, and the different ways music can project meaning and reflect identity.

You will be taught the parameters of different musical styles and given the tools to understand musical syntax. Classes offer exposure to a wide variety of music within the Western classical tradition as well as to jazz and popular idioms.

Your classes will be both theoretical and practical, with the latter focusing on musicianship and training on the keyboard.

Careers

Music History provides excellent preparation not only for graduate study in musicology, but also for a considerable range of professional training programs including journalism, information sciences, arts administration, and teaching.

You could become a professional

• Musicologist
• Music instructor
• Music librarian
• Music journalist
• Community programmer

Courses

As a Music History student, you can take courses like:

• MUHL 186. Western Musical Traditions.
• MUHL 286. Critical Thinking About Music.
• MUPD 235. Music as a Profession 2.

Related majors

Discover these related majors:

• Music (Bachelor of Arts)
• Music Theory
• Music Education

Department and University Information

The program is offered by the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.