RIGOR, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION

Positioned at the heart of a world-renowned academic institution, the Department of Music offers graduate degrees in Composition and Sound Practices, Ethnomusicology, and Music History and Theory, as well as an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and a lively performance program that involves undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students. Whether you’re considering applying to a program, browsing for interesting talks or concerts, wondering about curricular requirements, or looking for opportunities to play music, these pages will help you find answers.

In 2022, Philip V. Bohlman was awarded the International Balzan Prize for Ethnomusicology. As part of this prize, Bohlman has organized two symposia that reexamine and reimagine some of the musical functions of borderlands: Borderlands of Sonic Encounter in February 2024 and Unsettled Passage: A US-Mexico Border Symposium on Sonic Encounter in February 2025.

A multiyear, multidisciplinary, international project led collaboratively by Martha Feldman (University of Chicago), Martin Stokes (King’s College London), and Dafni Tragaki (University of Thessaly), Love / Music: Problematics of a Relationship interrogates the highly neglected theoretical, epistemological, disciplinary, and ethnohistorical dimensions of the love / music nexus.

Click here to learn more about these projects, as well as recent faculty publications.