Beloit College Music Department

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

Jack A. Farina - View Obituary & Service Information Share Memories and Support the Family.

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.

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From Hanna Brown, class of '10.

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.

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:

MUSICOVID: Coping through crisis with music (symposium)

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

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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