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Our Mission
The Music Department’s mission is to foster cognitive, critical, analytical thinking, and aesthetic appreciation through the study of music, and to develop musical performance skills to the highest level of students’ capabilities.
The Music Department defines part of its mission to assist students to study, to hear, and to perform music with intelligence and understanding within the spirit of an art that transcends analysis. Courses of study are designed to provide a strong grounding in music history, theory, literature and performance, all, of which, call into practice skills of analytical perception and critical analysis that are necessary for academic disciplines.
DEGREE PROGRAMS
The Bachelor of Arts in Music
The Bachelor of Arts in music offers students the opportunity to focus on Performance, History/Literature, Theory/Composition, and/or Jazz. The program also enables students to explore music in the broadest sense through coursework that includes Music in World Cultures, Popular Music, Music and Gender, Music Business, Opera and Musical Theater Workshops, various large and small ensembles, and lessons.
Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology and Production
The Bachelor of Arts in music technology and production is a specialized major where you will learn how to produce professional-quality music, as well as gain hands-on experience using music hardware and software technology, all while acquiring an understanding of the music industry.
Bachelor of Arts in Music Education
The Bachelor of Arts in music education balances the liberal arts program of the College with the requirements for both the music and education departments for the certification process in music education. All PC students in Music Education, K-12, have found jobs teaching all over the country after graduation.
Bachelor of Arts in Liturgical Music
The major in Liturgical Music at Providence College is inherently a portrayal of interdisciplinarity drawing from both theology and music. With concentrations primarily in voice or keyboards (organ and piano), the major prepares students with a liberal arts degree to serve as church musician and/or continue studies at the graduate level.
Musical Theatre concentration
The musical theatre concentration aims to develop students’ talent and ability with the goal of helping them discover their own unique abilities in musical theatre. A successful professional in musical theatre must possess skills in acting, voice, music, and dance, and be able to integrate these skills with ease, expressiveness, and versatility.
Perform with the PC Chorus, Symphonic Winds, Jazz Band, and other music-focused student clubs
Show your school spirit as a member of Pep Band
Join the Chamber or Jazz Chamber ensembles
FACULTY
Our esteemed faculty members are specialists in music education, choral music, jazz studies, vocal performance, and instrumental training and hail from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Boston University, the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
in the news
AFTER PC
86%
of 2019-2023 fine and performing arts graduates are employed or attending graduate school
52%
are employed only
21%
are attending school only
12%
are employed and attending school
Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures.
Selected Places of Employment/Service
Achievement First Iluminar
Art League Rhode Island
Cambridge Savings Bank
Cathedral of Christ the King
College Light Opera Company
Connecticut Landmarks
Elizabeth Grant Photography
Executive Search Partners Inc.
Fred Astaire Dance Studio
Fulbright Program
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Pierre Frey
Pili Montilla
Samuels & Associates
Sian Heder
Upserve
Walt Disney World Company
White Heron Theatre Company
Wolf & Company, PC
… and elementary/secondary schools throughout the U.S.
Selected Graduate Schools
Boston College
Curry College
Delta State University
Manhattan School of Music
New York University Steinhardt
Northeastern University
Penn State University
Providence College
Saint Joseph’s University
University of Leeds
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Vanderbilt Law School
CONTACT INFORMATION
Catherine Gordon, Ph.D. – Chair
Smith Center for the Arts G05
401-865-1898
cgordon@providence.edu
Jennifer Green
Adminstrative Coordinator
Smith Center for the Arts G04
401.865.2183
jgreen@providence.edu
