All courses are year long except those listed(F) = Fall/First semester or (S) = Spring/Second semester

1. Individual Instruction (Composition, Piano, Voice, Instrument)
   • A student may elect to study in two areas, thereby creating a “split”; e.g., a full lesson in voice and a half lesson in piano
2. Theory and Composition:
   • Required for all students; entry level determined by diagnostic exam:
     • Theory I: Materials of Music (required), taken along with Hearing and Singing
     • Theory II: Basic Tonal Theory and Composition (required), taken along with Basic Aural Skills as well as Survey of Western Music
   • One of the following Advanced Theory courses is required after Theory II (Either Studies in Music and Culture or Idea of a New Style is taken along with Advanced Theory):
     • Advanced Theory: Advanced Tonal Theory and Harmony
     • Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony I
     • Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony II
     • Advanced Theory: Sonata Form(s)
     • Advanced Theory: Twentieth-Century Theoretical Approaches: Post-Tonal and Rock Music
   • Sight Reading and Aural Skills
     • Hearing and Singing (required with Theory I)
     • Basic Aural Skills (required with Theory II)
     • Advanced Aural Skills
     • Sight Reading for Instrumentalists
   • Music Technology:
     • Music Software Lab
     • Studio for Electronic Music and Experimental Sound
     • Studio for Electronic Music and Experimental Sound II and III
     • Sound and Music for the Theater I and II (F)
   • Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques
3. Music History Courses:
   • Survey of Western Music (required with Theory II)
   • The Idea of a New Style (required with Advanced Theory)
   • Baroque Opera (F)
   • The Traditions of Opera:  Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Berg (S)
   • Mozart and Beethoven:  Music from 1770-1810 (F)
   • Debussy and the French School (S)
   • Jazz History
   • Studies in Music and Culture (required with Advanced Theory)
4. Performance Classes:
   • Choral Ensembles:
     • Chamber Choir
     • Women’s Vocal Ensemble
   • Jazz Ensembles and Classes:
     • The Blues Ensemble
     • Jazz Composition and Arranging
     • Jazz Colloquium
     • Jazz Performance and Improvisation Workshop
     • Jazz Vocal Ensemble
   • Voice Classes:
     • Jazz Vocal Seminar (S)
     • Character Development for Singers (F)
     • Diction for Singers (required)
     • Seminar in Vocal Performance (required)
     • So This is Opera?
     • Studio Class
   • World Music Ensembles:
     • Gamelan Angklung Chandra Buana (F) (required for students taking Studies in Music and Culture as a component)
     • African Percussion Ensemble (S) (required for students taking Studiesin Music and Culture as a component)
   • Other Ensembles and Classes:
     • Awareness Through Movement for Musicians
     • Bluegrass Performance Ensemble (S)
     • Chamber Music
     • Chamber Music Improvisation (F)
     • Collegium Musicum
     • Conducting
     • Evolution of a Performance
     • Guitar Class
     • Sarah Lawrence Orchestra (required for instrumentalists)
     • Senior Recital (S)
5. Concert Attendance/Music Tuesdays
6. Courses offered to the College community that constitute one-third of a student’s total program:
   • Studies in Music and Culture
   • The Traditions of Opera:  Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Berg (S)