University of Notre Dame

Course Description

• Opportunities to study and make music at Notre Dame are wide-ranging, from majors and minors to lessons and performance ensembles

• Studying music at Notre Dame offers avenues to build on the strengths, experiences, and training students bring to the program as well as new opportunities to engage deeply with familiar and unfamiliar sounds, traditions, and ways of understanding music through theories, histories, and cultures ranging from the Western classical tradition to musics around the world

• It is designed to prepare students for professional careers in performance and academic study of music

• Students can also pair music with any other major if they wish to further their musical development while developing their knowledge in another subject, from anthropology to finance to computer science

• The knowledge and skills developed through studying music will help students thrive in a wide variety of fields after graduation