The RC Music program educates and empowers students of all levels through process-oriented teaching and music making.
RC Music is led by a team of multi-disciplinary musicians. We offer experiential music education to all students and foster creativity through innovative teaching strategies. Students who join us are equipped with insights and tools for a lifetime of learning and making music.
WE VALUE / WE CREATE
- A community of music makers
- A refuge for creativity
- Individual progress without judgment
- An atmosphere of support
- Room for individual interests and contributions
- Connection to the community
- Small class sizes
- Process as opposed to product
- Play, Experimentation, Hard work
- Transferable skills - Communication, Leadership, Teamwork
- Inclusion of all people, art forms, genres and cultures
- Critical listening
RC music classes generally fall into one of these two categories:
- 1-2 credit Performance and Theory labs:
- Chamber music
- Chinese Ensemble
- Creative Musicianship theory lab
- Voice class
- all 200 or 300-level RCMUSIC courses
- 4 credit Recitations - interdisciplinary classes mixing performance, history, theory, composition, improvisation and technology depending on the skill set of the particular class:
- Foundations of Music
- Electronic Music
- Afro-Cuban Drumming and Styles
- Found Instruments
- Improvisation
- Creative Musicianship
- some RCMUSIC courses offered at 200- and 300-levels
See the list of courses for the next term here.
The program supports students seeking to fulfill the RC Arts Practicum, students majoring in the RC Arts and Ideas, as well as the those music majors and minors, who may have difficulty in finding fitting classes at the School of Music or do not have the capacity to go between Central and North Campus. Most RC music classes have no prerequisites.
Need another reason to take an RC Creative Arts Class, like music? Check out this video:
Playing and listening to music uses the whole brain at once. [Alluri et al., University of Jyväskylä, Finland].
Learning to play an instrument raises your IQ. [Schellenberg, University of Toronto Missisauga].
Playing music makes people better readers, and better students. [Kraus, Harmony Project, Northwestern University Auditory Neuroscience Lab].
When people play music together, their brainwaves get synchronized. [Lindenberger, Li, Gruber and Müller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin].
