Dartmouth College

There are as many different ways to study music as there are kinds of music to study. The study of music combines a range of classroom courses with opportunities for performance, concerts, festivals, colloquia, and masterclasses. Each mode of instruction brings together students, faculty, and artists-in-residence in a variety of roles.

The Dartmouth Music department is at the cutting edge of music scholarship, thanks to an internationally acclaimed faculty of composers, performers, conductors, music theorists, historians, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists. Arts and artists flourish, musical journeys are launched and take unexpected turns, and exceptional resources—both human and institutional—support creative work. Students do not have to be music majors or minors to participate in the Hopkins Center ensembles or take the Music Department's Individual Instruction Program lessons.