Music - Mills College

Music from Mills College is a Campus Bachelor Music degree that prepares you for a Vocational Programs career. For well over half a century, the Music Department at Mills College has enjoyed an international reputation. Because of its strong faculty and history of innovation, the department is in a unique position to enable its students to participate in some of the most exciting areas of development for music making in our time. All music students at Mills, whether they are music majors, music minors, or those who simply wish to take music courses, benefit from this stimulating, creative atmosphere. The curricular emphasis of the Music Program is twofold: First, in keeping with the liberal arts mission of the College, courses for non-majors not only expose students to a wide variety of styles and repertory, but also place musical activity within the broader context of intellectual history and global culture. Second, the Music Department offers a unique undergraduate major in music that promotes a dynamic interaction between performance and improvisation, historical and theoretical studies, composition, and music technology. The music student at Mills also learns that Western musical culture is only one of the world\\\'s many musical traditions?a fact accentuated by the cultural diversity of the Bay Area as well as its position on the Pacific Rim. The music major revolves around a core curriculum of music history, theory, and performance that provides knowledge and skills basic to all musicians. In addition, music majors select one of four areas of emphasis: performance, theory/history, composition, or composition with an emphasis in media technology or electronic music . Performance students work with top San Francisco Bay Area musicians and perform in various musical groups, such as the Early Music, Performance Collective (Chamber), Vocal, Gamelan, African Drumming, Music Improvisation, and Contemporary Performance Ensembles. Our program in composition provides undergraduate women the opportunity to assume roles in music technology, recording engineering, and composition that have traditionally been inaccessible to them. All music students at Mills can also work at Mills\\\' Center for Contemporary Music, a world-renowned facility for electronic and computer music that has played an influential role in the development of contemporary musical culture and is an important link in a long tradition of musical innovation at Mills. Finally, just as all musical activities should be interrelated, music should not be isolated from other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The Music Department therefore offers several interdisciplinary courses and is committed to creating interdisciplinary programs that fit the needs of students with special interests. View more details on Mills College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Music courses.