The courses and programs offered in Music Occupations are designed to extend your musical skills and increase your possibilities in the music industry. Our classes are tailored to meet the needs of musicians working the real world of agents and gigs. Whether your interest is in front of the microphone or behind the mixing board, MATC can help you get started on the career path of your dreams.
Music is interwoven into the fabric of life at Millsaps. The Millsaps Singers is the oldest music performance organization at the College. Repertoire classes, honors recitals, solo recitals, choir and ensemble performances and master classes with visiting professionals and artists-in-residence are standard features of the program. Concentrations in church music and music performance (piano, voice, organ, guitar, or orchestral instruments) can be combined not just with a music major, but with any major Millsaps offers.
Millsaps Singers
The oldest music performance organization at the college is The Millsaps Singers. Membership in The Singers is open to all students by audition. Each year, this 70-voice choir performs a variety of accompanied and a cappella music for the college and community, and there is usually at least one performance with a professional orchestra. The Singers traditionally perform a fall concert, a Christmas concert, and a spring concert, showcasing a highly diverse repertoire — masterworks, international and ethnic works, and recent additions to the choral repertory. Academic credit is awarded for participation each semester. Singers also takes international tours-they went to England in 2003.
Millsaps Chamber Singers
The highly selective membership of the 16-24 voice Chamber Singers is drawn from the Millsaps Singers and each member of the group receives a scholarship for their service. Their repertoire centers on important sacred literature — both a capella and accompanied. In addition to concerts for United Methodist congregations in Mississippi, the choir takes annual national or international tours. Destination cities have included Chicago, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and Orlando. Past concert itineraries have featured international tours to Germany, the Czech Republic, and Austria. Most recently, the Singers toured Spain and Portugal in May 2002.
Music
Music is interwoven into the fabric of life at Millsaps. The Millsaps Singers is the oldest music performance organization at the College. Repertoire classes, honors recitals, solo recitals, choir and ensemble performances and master classes with visiting professionals and artists-in-residence are standard features of the program. Concentrations in church music and music performance (piano, voice, organ, guitar, or orchestral instruments) can be combined not just with a music major, but with any major Millsaps offers.
Millsaps Singers
The oldest music performance organization at the college is The Millsaps Singers. Membership in The Singers is open to all students by audition. Each year, this 70-voice choir performs a variety of accompanied and a cappella music for the college and community, and there is usually at least one performance with a professional orchestra. The Singers traditionally perform a fall concert, a Christmas concert, and a spring concert, showcasing a highly diverse repertoire — masterworks, international and ethnic works, and recent additions to the choral repertory. Academic credit is awarded for participation each semester. Singers also takes international tours-they went to England in 2003.
Full Course List
Music Course List
MUS 001 - MUS 112
MUS 113 - MUS 164
MUS 170 - MUS 183
Schedule of Courses for
the Current Semester
For well over half a century, the Music Department at Mills College has enjoyed an international reputation. Because of its strong faculty and history of innovation, the department is in a unique position to enable its students to participate in some of the most exciting areas of development for music making in our time. All music students at Mills, whether they are music majors, music minors, or those who simply wish to take music courses, benefit from this stimulating, creative atmosphere.
The curricular emphasis of the Music Program is twofold:
First, in keeping with the liberal arts mission of the College, courses for non-majors not only expose students to a wide variety of styles and repertory, but also place musical activity within the broader context of intellectual history and global culture.
Second, the Music Department offers a unique undergraduate major in music that promotes a dynamic interaction between performance and improvisation, historical and theoretical studies, composition, and music technology. The music student at Mills also learns that Western musical culture is only one of the world’s many musical traditions—a fact accentuated by the cultural diversity of the Bay Area as well as its position on the Pacific Rim.
The music major revolves around a core curriculum of music history, theory, and performance that provides knowledge and skills basic to all musicians. In addition, music majors select one of four areas of emphasis: performance, theory/history, composition, or composition with an emphasis in media technology or electronic music. Performance students work with top San Francisco Bay Area musicians and perform in various musical groups, such as the Early Music, Performance Collective (Chamber), Vocal, Gamelan, Kongolese Drumming, Music Improvisation, and Contemporary Performance Ensembles. Our program in composition provides undergraduate women the opportunity to assume roles in music technology, recording engineering, and composition that have traditionally been inaccessible to them.
All music students at Mills can also work at Mills’ Center for Contemporary Music, a world-renowned facility for electronic and computer music that has played an influential role in the development of contemporary musical culture and is an important link in a long tradition of musical innovation at Mills.
Finally, just as all musical activities should be interrelated, music should not be isolated from other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The Music Department therefore offers several interdisciplinary courses and is committed to creating interdisciplinary programs that fit the needs of students with special interests.
Prospective students: See the catalog for information regarding financial aid, music awards, the Carroll Donner Commemorative Scholarship in Music, and the Barbara Hazelton Floyd Scholarship
Department Music
College Arts & Humanities
Undergraduate Degree Type(s) BA
Program Description The Bachelor of Arts is designed for students interested in pursuing the study of music within a broad liberal arts curriculum. The degree program emphasizes a full spectrum of music courses rather than a heavy concentration within any segment of the field.
Admission Requirements Admission to Major is granted by the department.
Minimum University admission requirements are:
a minimum of 32 earned semester credit hours
a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 (C)
Other Requirements Entering music majors and minors are expected to have substantial musical experience performing with church or school ensembles, or as a soloist. Before admission to the major or minor, music literacy (the ability to read musical notation) must be demonstrated. Though Minnesota State Mankato does offer a course in basic music-reading skills, it is strongly advised that you begin those studies prior to arriving.
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the cyberspace snapshot of the School of Music! Our mission statement is clear, to develop the whole musician - artistically, intellectually, and technically through the integration of theory and practice. To that end, our faculty is dedicated to ensuring that our students emerge with requisite knowledge, skills and values. Year after year, our graduates are living proof of this collaborative effort as they work in our communities as respected educators, performing musicians, businesspersons, and also grace programs at some of the country’s most prestigious graduate schools.
Designed to prepare the student for a career in the creative side of the music undustry. A key component of the program is the Millikin Studio, a state-of-the-art recording studio and video-editing suite. Each student completes a senior project of his / her choice in consultation with the advisor. Previous projects include: recital, video project, composition recital, production of a compact disk either as engineer, producer or performer.
Unique Coursework
Studio Techniques I/II
Praticum
Production
Senior Project
Electives: Songwriting, Songwriter’s Workshop, Jazz Arranging, Studio Techniques III, Praticum II
Professional Experiences
First Step Records
Blue Connection (The Art of Entrepreneurship)
Music Industry Internship
The music ministry minor fits well with numerous majors. The study of music ministry may serve to foster students’ avocational interests as well as prepare them for more concentrated music studies in the future.
MUSC 143 Basic Music Theory/Ear Training (3 hrs)
MUSC 144 Basic Music Theory/Ear Training (3 hrs)
MUSC 363 Basic Conducting (3 hrs)
MUSC 365 Music History Survey (3 hrs)
MUSC 454 Music and Worship Methods (3 hrs)
MUSC 491 Practicum in Music Ministry (1 hr)
Ensemble for 4 hours (.5 to 1.5 hrs per ensemble per semester)
Applied Music:
Principal concentration for a minimum of 3 semesters (1.5 hrs)
Secondary concentration for a minimum of 2 semesters (1 hr)
Concert attendance for 4 semesters (attending 4 concerts/semester)
Either the principal or the secondary applied area for all music minors must be piano.
Music minors with a principal area of concentration in percussion, brass, or woodwinds may satisfy two semester hours of the ensemble requirement with Jazz Ensemble (if instrumentation appropriate), and two semester hours in Johnson City Community Concert Band (Civic Band). For all voice minors, participation in Concert Choir or Milligan Women’s Chorale fulfills the ensemble requirement. For string minors, participation in Orchestra fulfills the ensemble requirement. Ensemble requirements for students whose principal applied area is guitar will be determined on an individual basis by the applied instructor and ensemble directors. Participation in choral or instrumental ensembles fulfills the ensemble requirement for all students whose principal applied area is keyboard.
Concert and recital attendance is required of all music minors for four semesters (attending four concerts per semester). Failure to meet all recital attendance requirements results in a half a letter grade (5 points) reduction in every music class final average for the semester.