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 Survey of Western Music
   • One of the following Advanced Theory* courses is required after Theory II
     • Advanced Theory: Advanced Tonal Theory and Harmony
     • Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony I
     • Advanced Theory: Jazz Theory and Harmony II
     • Advanced Theory: Symphony
     • Advanced Theory: Theoretical Foundations of Electronic Music
     • 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
     • Intermediate Aural Skills
     • Sight Reading for Instrumentalists
   • Music Technology
     • Studio for Electronic Music and Experimental Sound
     • MIDI, DAWs and Scoring for Media
     • Studio Composition and Music Technology
   • Compositional Techniques
     • Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques
3. Music History Courses
   • Survey of Western Music (required with Theory II)
   • Eighteenth Century Music (S)
   • Ethnomusicology of the Americas: Music, Language & Identity
   • Jazz History
   • Keyboard Literature
   • Mozart and Beethoven: Music from 1720-1810 (F)
   • Debussy and the French School (S)
   • Symphony
4. Performance Classes
   • Choral Ensembles
     • Chamber Choir
     • Women’s Vocal Ensemble
   • Jazz Ensembles and Classes
     • The Blues Ensemble
     • 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)
     • Self Discovery Through Singing
     • Seminar in Vocal Performance (required)
     • So This is Opera?
     • Studio Class
   • World Music Ensembles
     • Gamelan Angklung Chandra Buana (F) (required for students taking Ethnomusicology of the Americas: Music, Language & Identity as a component)
     • African Percussion Ensemble Faso Foli (S) (optional for students taking Ethnomusicology of the Americas: Music, Language & Identity as a component)
   • Other Ensembles and Classes
     • Awareness Through Movement™ for Musicians
     • Baroque Ensemble
     • Bluegrass Performance Ensemble (S)
     • Chamber Music
     • Chamber Music Improvisation
     • Evolution of a Performance
     • Guitar Class
     • Guitar Performance Class/Ensemble
     • Keyboard Lab
     • Sarah Lawrence Orchestra (required for instrumentalists)
     • Sarah Lawrence String Orchestra
     • Senior Recital (S)
5. Concert Attendance/Music Tuesdays Requirement
6. Courses offered to the College community that constitute one-third of a student’s total program (seminars or lecture with conferences)
   • First-Year Studies: Classical Music
   • Lecture: Eighteenth Century Music (S)
   • Seminar: Ethnomusicology of the Americas: Music, Language & Identity
7. Music Courses in Rotation Not Offered in 2009-2010
   • Conducting
   • Idea of a New Style
   • Jazz Composition and Arranging
   • Orchestration

*With Advanced Theory one is required to take either a year-long seminar or two semester-long seminars in music history, which include Ethnomusicology of the Americas: Music, Language & Identity, Jazz History, Keyboard Literature, Mozart and Beethoven: Music from 1720-1810 (Fall), Debussy and the French School (Spring), and Symphony.