Music Degrees Online

In a way that honors and celebrates our membership in a small, liberal arts, honors college community, we offer a curriculum modeled on the best features of music conservatories, large university schools of music, and large university undergraduate liberal arts programs. We seek to provide the best possible education to highly talented students as well as to attract a well rounded, balanced and mutually supportive community of musicians-in-training. We strive to present to students a full range of musical opportunities. Their studies, in both academics and performance, are guided with a high level of personal attention by musicians of the first rank.

Our numerous college-level and professional-level performance activities provide a substantial educational foundation and serve as an important cultural resource for our region. The unique summer international and orchestral programs offer students the opportunity to expand their horizons and deepen their understanding of worlds beyond their own by engaging in conservatory-like, pre-professional training here and abroad. These endeavors, taken together, are intended to prepare our students for advanced training and careers in a variety of fields such as performance, arts administration, music scholarship, and education.

We provide a wide range of musical experiences for the non-music-major liberal arts student as well. For these students, we offer instrumental and vocal instruction (private and class), the opportunity to participate in a variety of excellent ensembles, and course work that supports an understanding of music in its wider historical, social, cultural, and geographical contexts. Our ultimate goal for these students is to instill or to deepen in them an appreciation, affection, and respect for music specifically and the arts generally. Participation in our musical activities helps to reinforce the vital role that the arts play in students’ lives, and leads to what we hope will be a rich, life-long, life affirming association, no matter what life paths they choose to pursue.

In a way that honors and celebrates our membership in a small, liberal arts, honors college community, we offer a curriculum modeled on the best features of music conservatories, large university schools of music, and large university undergraduate liberal arts programs. We seek to provide the best possible education to highly talented students as well as to attract a well rounded, balanced and mutually supportive community of musicians-in-training. We strive to present to students a full range of musical opportunities. Their studies, in both academics and performance, are guided with a high level of personal attention by musicians of the first rank.

Our numerous college-level and professional-level performance activities provide a substantial educational foundation and serve as an important cultural resource for our region. The unique summer international and orchestral programs offer students the opportunity to expand their horizons and deepen their understanding of worlds beyond their own by engaging in conservatory-like, pre-professional training here and abroad. These endeavors, taken together, are intended to prepare our students for advanced training and careers in a variety of fields such as performance, arts administration, music scholarship, and education.

We provide a wide range of musical experiences for the non-music-major liberal arts student as well. For these students, we offer instrumental and vocal instruction (private and class), the opportunity to participate in a variety of excellent ensembles, and course work that supports an understanding of music in its wider historical, social, cultural, and geographical contexts. Our ultimate goal for these students is to instill or to deepen in them an appreciation, affection, and respect for music specifically and the arts generally. Participation in our musical activities helps to reinforce the vital role that the arts play in students’ lives, and leads to what we hope will be a rich, life-long, life affirming association, no matter what life paths they choose to pursue.

The music department at Lebanon Valley College. Music has been a part of LVC since 1866. The tradition of great musicianship and career preparation has continued over the decades. The department has grown and evolved with the times. Housed within the music department are programs that provide wide ranging opportunities for performances and skills needed to succeed. Music Business, Music Recording Technology, Music Education, Masters of Music Education, and a host of Music BA degree offerings overlap, without ever losing the focus of music being the central essence of all of the programs.

You’ll find the Music Department to be unique in its vision and commitment, with one foot firmly planted in the traditions of the past, and the other foot in step with the opportunities of the future.

About the Department of Music
Recognized as a special strength of the institution, the music degree program offers an intense and challenging curriculum right from your freshman year. Beginning with a personalized audition, the music program features a student-centered curriculum and individualized attention. Ample opportunities are available to perform as a soloist or within the many campus ensembles.

Learning about music, developing sensitive and critical listening skills, creating and performing music, and understanding the role of music in history and contemporary society are all vital elements in the music curriculum at Lebanon Valley.

A broad-based, flexible course of study has been designed to meet the specific professional requirements of the music student as well as the musical needs of the general liberal arts student.

Several generations of students have benefited from the music curriculum at Lebanon Valley College. Many of our graduates immediately embark on successful careers in education, music recording technology, or performance, while others further their music education by attending top graduate schools.