Training
•The A.B. in Music is an individualized liberal-arts major organized around two broad areas: Culture & Criticism, which includes music history, theory, cognition, and ethnography, and Materials & Making, which includes composition, improvisation, analysis, and electronic music.
•Princeton encourages students to build distinctive pathways through composition, electronic music, musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, jazz studies, music cognition, and sound studies, with no single route required for every major.
Facilities
•Sō Percussion serves as the Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, while the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) supports nationally recognized electronic and computer-music work. Majors may also take vocal or instrumental studio lessons with performance faculty, with the University covering the full cost of lessons during the junior and senior years.
Degree Flexibility
•Students can connect music study with anthropology, literature, religion, theater, sociology, psychology, computer science, history, or classics. That breadth lets majors combine scholarly, creative, and performance interests within the same liberal-arts degree.
•Every major completes a year-long junior project and a senior thesis, which may take the form of research, an original composition, or a portfolio of creative work.
