Department of Music
We are a department of scholars, composers, and performers, and offer a strong and exciting program to undergraduate liberal arts students. We teach music through its interrelated subdisciplines (music history, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance) within the context of a liberal arts curriculum.
Our curriculum is grounded in classical music, world musics, and a full complement of American music (jazz, music and film, popular music, musical theatre, art music). The department collectively values the contributions of all musical cultures and styles, and in any given semester offers courses that reflect this diversity.
In the News
Student Brings Authentic Period Instrument to Ensemble
Hurdy-gurdies, lutes and the occasional sackbut: For 14 years, the College of William and Mary’s Early Music Ensemble has brought medieval, renaissance and baroque music to life with reproductions of instruments such as these.
W&M Choir and Botetourt Chamber Singers Head Overseas
This summer William and Mary's beloved Choir, along with the Botetourt Chamber Singers, aka "The Bots," will have the opportunity to take their talents to Europe as part of an international tour program.
Perspectives
Joanna Stephens '08: When the Health Minister Advises Beetroot and Garlic for AIDS
Joanna Stephens '08 has firsthand experience with South Africa's myriad social and governmental problems, with its longstanding racial divides and the devastating effects of AIDS on its population.
Prof. Preston Named Fulbright Distinguished Chair
Professor Katherine K. Preston has been named the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Culture by the Fulbright Center of the Netherlands.
Sunni Fass '97 Joins Staff at the Musical Instrument Museum
Sunni Fass '97 has been hired as Assistant Curator of Musical Instruments at The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), a new institution that is currently under development in Phoenix, Arizona.
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