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AMHERST COLLEGE, AMHERST Department of Music

Country:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

State:

MASSACHUSETTS

City:

AMHERST


Street Address:

224 Arms Music Center, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002-5000, USA

Postal Address:

PO Box 5000, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA


Program:

Undergraduate program

Details:

Bachelor of Arts in Music. Four years. Studies in performance (classical, jazz/popular, opera, early music, Indian instruments), composition/theory, music history, world music.


Institution Notes:

Amherst College is a private liberal arts institution founded in 1821. The Department of Music owns a Javanese gamelan. It is one of a five-college consortium which shares programs for the purpose of extending and enriching their collective educational resources. The other neighbouring colleges forming this five-college consortium are: • Smith College, Northampton; • Hampshire College, Amherst; • Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley; • University of Massachusetts, Amherst; The five colleges share programs in ethnomusicology and early music performance. There is a Five College PhD program, awarded by the University of Massachusetts.


Last Updated:

November 2022