Music History (Performance Practices or Scholarship and Research emphases)

Bringing the musical past alive, The Department of Music History, Literature and Criticism guides students through the evolution of music. From broad interest survey courses to in-depth special topic courses on the symphony, the history of musical instruments, and Bach and Handel, both majors and non-majors alike gain a comprehensive understanding of all periods of music.

Students may choose either an emphasis in research or performance practices. Hartt's collection of early instruments, including recorders, shawms, sackbuts, Renaissance lutes and flutes, as well as three harpsichords, a clavichord, a positiv organ and several baroque bows, help to create an active learning atmosphere.

The Music History Forum, founded in 1987, has brought accomplished musicologists such as Joshua Rifkin, who has visited Hartt twice since 1998. Other participants have included John Daverio, Barbara Heymen and Walter Frisch. The program provides students a chance to learn about the latest in musicological research. Work of invited participants has appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Musical Quarterly and Nineteenth Century Music.

 

Members of the Music History department faculty have dual careers as professional performers and active scholars. Their research has been published in journals such as Music and Letters, Bach, Journal of Musicological Research, Music Analysis, The Musical Times, MLA Notes, and Händel-Harhbuch.

Applicants to the master's degree program usually have a bachelor's degree in Music History or its equivalent. The program consists of 36 credits and includes courses in the major area, other studies, and electives. An important feature of the curriculum is flexibility in elective courses suited to the interests and needs of the student. Core and elective courses are designed to assist the student in preparing the master's thesis.

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Major in Music History 

Scholarship and Research Emphasis

Subject Code	Course Description	Credits
HLM 615	Pro-seminar in Music History	3
HLM	Music History Seminars	9
	Thesis	6
	Total Credits (Major Area)	18
	Other Studies
TH	Music Theory Electives	6
	Total Credits - Other Studies	6
	Other Courses
	Electives (with approval of advisor)	12
	Total Credits for Degree	36

 

Major in Music History

Performance Practices Emphasis

Subject Code	Course Description	Credits
HLM 615	Pro-seminar in Music History	3
HLM 573	Seminar in Performance Practices	3
HLM	Music History Seminars	6
	Thesis	6
	Total Credits (Major Area)	18
	Other Studies
	Private Music Instruction (3 Sem.)	4,4,4
ENS 521	Collegium Musicum	2,2
REC 560	Recital	0
	Total Credits - Other Studies	16
	Other Courses
	Electives	4
	Total Credits for Degree	38