Undergraduate Program
Senior Essays
Each year students undertaking the Intensive Music Major must complete the intensive senior essay requirement, an independent and original project in the history or theory of music or in music composition. The Department of Music selects the best senior essay as the winner of The Beekman Cannon Friends of Music prize. Recent Senior Essays include:
2010
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Marriage, Monachism, and 'La Calisto:' Francesco Cavalli and Giovanni Faustini's Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Society, an essay in music history. Selected as the winner of The Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize.
Daniel Gelernter, Transcribing and Arranging Gershwin