Music Major
Timothy H. Lindeman, Professor, Chair
Wendy Looker, Assistant Professor
Suzanne Galer, Visiting Associate Professor
Kami Rowan, Visiting Instructor
The Music Department strives to engage students in a variety of artistic, creative, intellectual, and cultural endeavors. Students benefit from a strong, interdisciplinary liberal arts base, small classes that stimulate active learning, and group participation. Seminar-style settings take the place of formal lectures; repertory classes, student showcases, end-of-semester recitals, experiences in musical theater and opera scenes, master classes, and competitions prepare students for the application of their discipline.
The Department offers a variety of opportunities in performance studies, solo and group performance, and music scholarship for the student who pursues a music major or minor in music. The general Guilford student is welcomed into private lessons, performance ensembles, and general music classes.
The College Choir presents several major performances throughout the year focusing on the great choral literature tradition. The concerts are designed not only for members of the choir but as activities for community enrichment, the high point of the season being the annual holiday concert. Participation in the choir is designed to add to the total enrichment of student life. Membership is open to all students genuinely interested, willing to work hard, and strongly committed to the choir.
The Chamber Singers is an auditioned choir of 20 select singers who perform primarily a cappella literature spanning a variety of musical periods.The choir performs in a number of venues around the Guilford campus and Greensboro community in addition to the semester concerts.
The Jazz Ensembles, Classical Instrument Ensemble, and Guitar Ensembles frequently perform for the Guilford community and in the Greensboro area. The above ensembles, the weekly repertoire classes for majors, the monthly Music at Day's End series, and junior and senior recitals provide students with many performance opportunities.
Each fall the Department produces a musical revue in cooperation with the Theatre Studies Department. All Guilford College students are eligible to audition for parts.
Degrees Offered
The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in music.
Scholarships
Several scholarships are available through the Music Department. Some of these monies are used to pay for performance studies for qualifying majors. Other scholarships are used to recognize outstanding academic achievement as well as reward students for service in the department.
Major Requirements
Students wishing to declare a major in music must audition to qualify. They should contact the department chair for information regarding specific repertoire requirements and to schedule an audition. Provisional acceptance can be granted to students submitting taped auditions.
A major in music consists of 16 credits in Music Theory (MUS 101-102, 201-202), 8 credits in Music History (MUS 310-311), 2 credits in Conducting (MUS 210), a 1-credit Junior Recital (MUS 302), and a 1-credit Senior Recital (MUS 402) or a 2-credit Senior Project (MUS 403). All music majors must enroll in 2 credits of Performance Studies and 1 credit of Ensemble every semester they are enrolled as a music major at Guilford and are on campus until the satisfactory completion of MUS 402 (Senior Recital) or MUS 403 (Senior Project) with a minimum of 12 credits in Performance Studies and 6 credits in Ensemble.
Additionally, voice majors must successfully complete 2 credits in diction (MUS 103-104). Guitar majors must successfully complete 4 credits in guitar pedagogy and literature (MUS 205).