Admission Contact
Office of Admission
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
79 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212.229.5150 or
800.292.3040
lang@newschool.edu
Prospective students with questions about Contemporary Music: Please email langarts@newschool.edu.
Contemporary Music Program Director and Departmental Faculty Advisor
Clara Latham
Associate Professor, Music
lathamc@newschool.edu
Student Success Advisor for Contemporary Music
Brian Dudley
Manager, BA/BFA Student Success
dudleyb@newschool.edu
Investigate the cultural significance of music composition, performance, and listening practices in today's world. The Contemporary Music program at Lang emphasizes innovative musical thinking and music making in The New School's tradition of progressive education and experimentation in the arts. Explore the global diversity of contemporary music, examining topics including popular music, music history, theory, and criticism, and the evolving technologies used in composing, producing, performing, and listening.
The Contemporary Music curriculum covers a range of traditional approaches to music studies and explores innovative approaches to music-making and listening. This area of study enables you to combine theory with practice by applying concepts and methods to hands-on creative work. Our courses examine:
As a student in the Contemporary Music program at Lang, you can also enroll in selected courses across the university through the College of Performing Arts and Parsons School of Design.
While it offers the atmosphere and intimacy of a small college, Eugene Lang College is part of The New School, a major progressive university in New York City. The university also contains a College of Performing Arts, which is home to two renowned music schools: Mannes School of Music and the School of Jazz. This allows Contemporary Music students at Lang to benefit from university-wide resources and opportunities:
Students who want both a liberal arts education and professional training in jazz and contemporary music can pursue the BA/BFA pathway.
Students can access a dedicated music library and an extensive program of public concerts and music-related lectures, seminars, and conferences.
Our campus location in the heart of Greenwich Village allows you to use the vibrant music scene of the city as a learning laboratory. You have opportunities to find internships and other work in many fields of avant-garde and traditional music practice throughout the city. Studying in this cultural capital, you have countless chances to experience music of all styles and eras, including concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and experimental venues like the Kitchen and Issue Project Room, as well as The Stone, which is currently based at The New School.
Our program is designed to develop well-rounded and engaged citizens who are thoughtful, articulate, and creative. Contemporary Music majors at Lang go on to pursue advanced studies in the fields of musicology, anthropology, history, and media studies and continue on to careers in music production and distribution, arts writing and criticism, administration, and education. Consult our 4-Year Lang Career Pathways Map (PDF) for helpful steps and resources to link your academic journey to your future plans.
If you are planning to go on to graduate study in a related field, consider majoring in The Arts and applying to the Bachelor's-Master's program, which enables you to earn graduate credits that will apply to both your Lang degree and a graduate degree in liberal studies at The New School.
Lang students were involved in developing the production, which was written by Medzhibovskaya, a literary studies professor. De Kenessey is a professor emerita of the arts and contemporary music.
The piece was for a dance performance, choreographed by Juliana F. May, that delves into "the quagmire of everyday life."
Sunday Sessions is a 100 percent–student-led venture spotlighting New School students and their original music at bi-weekly live music sessions.
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