<p>Just wanted to know if anybody has any opinions on the quality of the music minor program at Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Its probably fairly weak… and I think you would take all the classes at one of the other colleges, probably through a combo program between the schools I think .</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd offers some very interesting music courses - especially if you’re interested in microtonal and electroacoustic music. And, yes, one can take classes at the other colleges. William Alves [William</a> Alves | Harvey Mudd College](<a href=“http://www.hmc.edu/academicsclinicresearch/academicdepartments/humanitiesandsocialsciences1/faculty1/williamalves.html#William%20alves]William”>http://www.hmc.edu/academicsclinicresearch/academicdepartments/humanitiesandsocialsciences1/faculty1/williamalves.html#William%20alves) at Harvey Mudd is the co-director of MicroFest, the annual Microtonal Music Fest which draws composers and musicians from all over the world
From Alves’ faculty bio: my courses … include Music of the Peoples of the World, Introduction to Computer Music, The Harmony of Sound and Light, and Music Since 1900. I also direct the Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan.</p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>
<p>Mudd requires a humanities concentration, and a number of Mudders concentrate in music. Music and math seem to go together. My impression is that between Mudd and the other 5C’s, it is a pretty good program.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to do performance, individual lessons are available super cheap at Scripps in Piano, voice, and violin. They might have a few other instruments… Pomona offers lessons in pretty much all instruments, but you’d pay at a rate of $25+/hour. Ensemble courses are free of course. Between Pomona and Scripps, you’ll have lots of options for music theory and history courses. Mudd’s one music professor does classes in 20th century music and world music (easy to get into) and electronic music composition (hard to get into). </p>
<p>You should have an idea what sort of minor you’re looking for… At Mudd, you’d be able to take as many as 4-6 courses in theory and/or history plus as many semesters of ensemble/lesson classes as you like. Keeping up an instrument is difficult at Mudd due to time commitments from other classes–however, if you have good time management skills (surprisingly many Mudders don’t) and are passionate about your instrument, doing a performance class every semester is doable.</p>
<p>A humanities concentration is four courses. I am planning to do my concentration in music. Each semester of an ensemble usually counts as 1/3 of a class. I am going to finish my 3rd semester of band next semester, so that will count as one class. I am also taking a music theory class at Pomona which will count as a full class and jazz improv at Mudd which will count as 1/2 of a class.</p>
<p>If I get in (unlikely) I will minor in music.</p>
<p>Quantitative thinking and music go hand in hand.</p>
<p>Just returned from an admissions session in NYC and the admissions rep highlighted that music is one of the more popular concentrations that students choose to fulfill their humanities requirements. And note, I learned today, that Mudd refers to these secondary focus areas as concentrations and not minors.</p>