<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>