The Music Department is an academic department of Harvard University, and offers both an undergraduate and a graduate program. Undergraduates receive an A.B. with a concentration in music. Graduate students complete a Ph.D. program in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, or composition. There is a new A. M. program in Performance Practice designed for a small number of specialized students who are engaged in careers as performers and teachers. The Department offers no musical performance, conducting, or music education degrees.

The Music Department is located in the renovated Fanny Peabody Mason Music Building, which houses classrooms, music practice rooms, the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC), an Ethno Lab, Early Instrument Room, and faculty and administrative offices. The Department sponsors numerous concerts, colloquia, lectures, and special music events each month, which are free to students and the public. Harvard's Music Department is composed of approximately 50 music concentrators, 50 graduate students, 21 permanent faculty and an additional 20 visiting faculty, associates and special students. The Department Chair is Professor Ingrid Monson. If you would like us to send you printed information, or if you can't find what you need on these pages, please feel free to contact us.