Through multiple modes of inquiry and experience, the department advances new ways of understanding music as both creative expression and cultural practice throughout the world. The department promotes musical education, research, and engagement at the highest standards of excellence on an open and inclusive basis.
Department of Music
Department of Music
The Department of Music is a community of scholars, creators, and performers dedicated to exploring music’s past, present, and future.
Department of Music
The Department of Music is a community of scholars, creators, and performers dedicated to exploring music’s past, present, and future.
Academics
Undergraduate
Our diverse curriculum combines creative courses in composition, technology, and performance with speculative studies in history, theory, ethnomusicology, philosophy, and musical aesthetics.
Graduate
At Brown, your degree is what you make it: the more adventurous you are, the more exciting your program is likely to be.
Music Making
The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all available for academic credit.
Students seeking to improve their playing or singing ability have the option of taking individual private lessons with about thirty professional musicians from the greater Boston-Providence area.
Recent News
Brown Daily Herald
Behind the scenes of Brown’s DJ culture
Under the flashing lights of Providence clubs and at bustling campus orientation events, a community of Brown students thrive behind speakers instead of on the dance floor. Whether engaging a crowd, highlighting sounds from their home countries or finding fun in their passion for music, each student DJ at Brown approaches their art in a unique way.
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News from the Department of Music
Bonnie Han Jones Appointed Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jones starts her appointment at SAIC in fall 2025
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Brown Daily Herald
The Telegraph Quartet delivers vibrant, yet haunting performance at Brown
The Telegraph Quartet delivered a beautiful performance at the Grant Recital Hall Monday night, playing with measured passion and undeniable control. It was a colorful, yet erratic experience that left the audience slightly disoriented but appreciative of the composers’ technical mastery.
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