Extended International Pathway Program (IPP) - 3-Semester Pathway + Master of Music - Music History: Scholarship and Research

Hartt’s music history program enables you to explore an array of global and Western music in their historical and cultural contexts. From broad survey courses to in-depth seminars, majors, and minors, you gain a comprehensive understanding of music as an artistic and cultural phenomenon.

Hartt offers a Bachelor of Music, a Master of Music, and a minor in music history. Information about each of these degrees is given below.

Music History at Hartt

An important feature of Hartt’s curriculum is the offering of flexible, elective courses suited to your interests and needs. Electives are designed with students in mind and have included opera history, string quartet literature, video game music, music and emotions, music of India, and critical editing. Students may also take courses about jazz and African-American musical traditions in Hartt’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.

In addition to Hartt’s rigorous coursework, you will participate in a number of performance organizations, including our Baroque ensemble, the Collegium Musicum. Hartt’s wide collection of early instruments, including recorders, Renaissance lutes and flutes, harpsichords, clavichord, Baroque bows, shawms, and sackbuts, are available and provide you with an active and creative learning environment.

Within the music history major, undergraduates will choose between our scholarship and research emphasis and our performance practice emphasis. Our scholarship and research emphasis systematically investigates various elements of music in written papers, employing a rigorous scholarly approach. Our performance practice emphasis combines your interest in performing with the study of treatises, earlier performance techniques, ornamentation, and related issues. Master’s students may choose among scholarship and research, performance practice, or music history pedagogy for their emphasis. Our music history pedagogy emphasis pairs our music history program with Hartt’s music education program for a rigorous exploration of current trends in pedagogical technique and historical methods.