本曲目适用于希望探索和提高各种类型表演者技能的学生。它为基于技能的音乐家，音乐理论，历史以及对其他传统的研究提供了扎实的背景，这些都是21世纪当前音乐创作的组成部分。该课程还集中于乐器的传统应用研究以及与大师级老师和教练在音乐会上的宝贵经验。在匹兹堡大学音乐系，我们通过创作，即兴创作和表演来创作音乐，并探索音乐在单个作品的结构，它们之间的关系以及它们在产生它们的文化中的地位的含义。在音乐家的世界中，感官和实践不能脱离理论和抽象。因此，音乐在我们了解自己的努力中占有特殊的位置。
This track is intended for students who want to explore and improve their skills as performers in a wide range of genres. It provides a solid background in skills-based musicianship, music theory, history, and the study of other traditions, which are part of the fabric of current music-making in the 21st century. This curriculum also provides a concentration on traditional applied study of an instrument and valuable experiences in concert settings with master teachers and coaches. In the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music, we make music through composition, improvisation, and performance, and explore music's meaning in the structure of individual works, the relationships between them, and their place in the cultures that produce them. The sensory and practical cannot be separated from the theoretical and abstract in the musician's world. Thus, music enjoys a special place in our endeavor to understand ourselves.