Beloit College Music Department

10/21/2024

08/27/2024

Dear friends, As most of you know, music does not, nor has it ever, functioned in isolation from the other performing arts (especially theatre and dance). Consequently, at Beloit College, we have put our money where our pedagogical/institutional mouths are (so to speak). Starting in the fall of 2024, the music department is no more. HOWEVER, starting this fall, we are proud to announce the new Beloit College Department of Performing and Applied Arts, a merging of music, theatre, and dance. We hope you'll follow our new FB page (we'll be retiring this page presently) in order for us to keep up with you and for you to keep up with all the exciting things on the horizon.

02/21/2024

Beloit College, and Beloit more generally, has lost a legend.

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07/10/2023

For anyone interested in a recent interview by Daniel Barolsky on his academic journey but also curricular changes at the college over the last 15 years.

Podcast · Lydia Bangura · What does it mean to be a music researcher? How does a musician use music as a medium to foster community? Featuring interviews with other musicians, scholars and artists, host Lydia Bangura seeks to ask interesting questions about music and execute important and relevant...

05/05/2023

Congratulations to Sam and Aphy who did a great job with Turtle Tunes this year. Thanks to Chris Wagoner and Mary Gaines for overseeing them.

05/05/2023

Congrats to Beloit alumna, Hanna Brown on her new release.

I have been waiting until this moment to officially announce that I will be releasing four singles making up my very first EP in the coming weeks! I am so proud of this work and on top of that...We're going to have a party!!!!

Tickets on sale TODAY for the Darling Record Release Show at The Aggie Theater on June 24th!!!!! Full band, original songs, vinyl, and a special opener :)

Use code DARLING for low-fee tickets at https://bit.ly/hannadoreenaggie
Click "Buy Offer" under Band Sales to get there!

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07/14/2022

First in their family to graduate from elementary school, Ericka Corall’22 will soon begin Ph.D. studies in computer science. Their goal? Find solutions...

07/06/2022

From Hanna Brown, class of '10.

06/06/2022

In 2014 we introduced a new course, "Music, Sound, and Theory." It was a radical, groundbreaking class that replaced the traditional fundamentals and introduction to music theory course and, instead, focused on elements of music and sound, put in conversation with scholarly/critical discussions from multiple disciplines, pushing our students to think differently about what music and music theory was, how it meant different things to different people, and how they could apply it to their own interests. The course evolved over eight years, taught and developed by Daniel Barolsky, Tes Slominski, Darci Sprengel, and Yvonne Wu. Yvonne and Daniel presented a poster on this course last weekend at the Music Theory Pedagogy Into Practice Conference at Michigan State. We learned an immense amount from our colleagues across the country but were also delighted by the enthusiastic response by these same colleagues, many of who envied the opportunity we were given by Beloit College to experiment and grow a course like this.

07/27/2021

The Music Department at Beloit is slowly gearing up for in-person learning this fall. But this doesn't mean we'll have forgotten the last year. In the spring semester, students in Daniel Barolsky's course on Music and Psychology spent a unit exploring the effects of the pandemic on music and, inversely, the ways musical engagement changed during the pandemic. Although the class is over, the research on this topic is continuing to develop. A conference on this very topic will be held online on July 28. Some of you might find it of interest:

06/28/2021

2020 and early 2021 were difficult for most of us. Here is what looks to be a remarkable musical response to the last year:

Personal PandemicA Socially Distanced Opera Personal Pandemic was conceived and created during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was recorded with iPhones and other ...

05/21/2021

Check out the just-released single "Sparrow" by the Beloit band Saturn Hat! https://youtu.be/OLFNlEwMNYo Stay tuned for their full album coming soon! Way to go, seniors Tony Renzema, Evan Watkins, and Philip Adrian!

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