The Music School offers a dynamic mixture of traditional and innovative courses for all musicians interested in learning about the history of their art, how music functions, how it is related to new technologies, and how to write music.
Performers rub shoulders with composers, theorists with technicians.
It is a growing, enterprising department in the University. The Chair of Music was established in 1764 and has numbered among its incumbents Ebenezer Prout, Charles Kitson, George Hewson, and Brian Boydell. Students taking two subjects may usually choose to major in either subject in their final year. In the final two years of the Single Honor course a choice between composition, musicology, music technology, and performance is offered. Single Honor students decide in which area to specialise at the end of their Senior Freshman year.