BA in Music

The Music major is an interdisciplinary program that specializes in vocal music, instrumental music or a combination of both At Northwest, faculty focus on ensuring students have ensemble performance skills that include successfully playing as part of a large group, nonverbal communication and keenly listening to ones own tone solo performance skills and experiences that include concert competitions, solo recitals, performing with an orchestra and opportunities to audition for awards and contests and music theory and history that focuses on understanding what students are playing or singing at a higher level, the ability to play multiple instruments and skills in composing music