Listing Course Information Off-campus Study Campus Services Library Calendars Academic Affairs Honor Societies Student Symposium Music as a Field of Study Music has a long history as an essential component of a liberal arts education. In music, the intellectual, mathematical, and analytical are combined with the emotional, spiritual, and sensual, representing the human condition in some compelling ways.
Music is scientific, in that it is the application of numerical relationships to sound.
It is humanistic and artistic, in that it is creative human work. It is, perhaps, the ideal liberal art, in that it requires the combination of the intellectual and the sensual for any real understanding. It would be difficult to find a methodological approach which is not used in some way in at least one of these areas.