<p>Horn is often a “needed” instrument and money may be available for good hornists even when they aren’t majoring in it.</p>
<p>Violadad, as usual, has posted lots of good links. Pay special attention to the BA vs. performance degrees, and when researching colleges, note that each college may have different takes on them.</p>
<p>For instance, my daughter’s college (Miami U of Ohio) offers a BA (humanities-based degree) and a BM (performance-based). The BA has lots more general requirements, and fewer lessons. It is not an “easier” degree, just a different one. It is easier to double with a BA because it meets the “arts and Sciences” core reqs, rather than the performance core reqs. My D had intended to get a double degree (BM in violin and BA in a language or linguistics) but ran into trouble having to meet the reqs for two different degree programs. If she’d gone for the BA in music, rather than the BM, it would have been much easier. But then she would have given up the performance focus, which is what she wanted most. So she is ending up with a BM in violin, and two minors (German and Chinese.)</p>
<p>During our research for her, we encountered many different takes on this. For example, Allegheny College ¶ only offeres a BA in music, and requires a double major, or major/minor. However, the majors have to be in different schools. Music and languages are in the same school there, so my D wasn’t interested.</p>
<p>On the other hand, when we visited Emory, they explained that it is almost too easy to double or even triple major there. And they do give money to some instrumentalists. The year D applied, they did NOT need violins and told her outright that there was no money for violinists. They heavily recruited my hornist son, though. I’m sure that changes year by year. Clayton State (GA) actually PAID one of my S’s horn friends to attend, they were that desperate.</p>
<p>Depending upon your academic abilites, double majors are possible at many places, especially if you come in with many APs that remove pre-reqs or cores. A former poster here has a son doubling in music and science at Princeton! Thumper1’s D was able to talk her school into dropping some of the core reqs for one of her degrees. Furman also told us that they encourage music majors to double. (You’ll find schools on both sides of the “back-up plan” idealogy. Bard, for example, REQUIRES music majors to double.)</p>
<p>The hardest part, I think, will be narrowing down the field. You need to decide whether the music or the “other” degree is more important, focus on finding strong schools in that area that are a fit with what you want geographically, demographically, academically, etc. Then take that list of schools and begin exploring their websites for information about the second major.</p>
<p>Here’s another tip: Take a look at some horn sites – such as the annual IHS conference, or Kendall Betts Horn Camp. Look at the performers posted there, and see where they teach. That might point you to some great teachers that would be otherwise off your radar.</p>
<p>(Side note: You mentioned “full-time” teacher, which may exclude many great schools. My S attended a school where all the instrumental private-teachers were part-time. Despite that “handicap”, it was a very good program that some would not have considered because of the “part-time” status of the teachers. Keep in mind that full-time teachers may not spend all that time actually giving private lessons, but teach other music classes such as theory or history to make up the difference. Many part-time teachers are performers in their other life and teach because they want to.)</p>