音乐课程为学生提供了音乐教学的四个基本领域的全面基础-理论，一般音乐家，历史和表演-并使他们能够专注于特定的兴趣领域，例如音乐教育，历史或理论。音乐认知计划为音乐学生提供了探索令人兴奋的新研究的机会，这些研究涉及如何在大脑中感知音乐以及音乐如何与智力发展的其他方面相交。这些发现的教育应用也将被考虑。
The Music I program will be suspending admissions as of September 2024 as the program undergoes a redesign. Prospective students who are interested in studying music are encouraged to apply to Humanities I, and can then work towards a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Auditions are not required for this program. Here in the School of the Arts, were rethinking how we teach music to our students. While we have paused admission to Music 1 program for September 2024, we are not closing Music at McMaster, but are working to revitalize it.<br>Were committed to reimagining the Music program in a way that reduces barriers, speaks to the changed musical landscape of today's world, and works with McMaster's distinctive strengths.<br>As the redesign of the Music program continues, our current students in Music level 1, and Music degree programs (BMus, BMus(Music Cognition), BA in Music and the Combined Honours Degree in Music and Another Subject) will be able to finish their degrees without interruption.<br>Future students who are interested in studying music can enrol in our Bachelor of Arts with a music major. Students in this program take music history, performance, and theory, and have the option to take courses in music therapy, cognitive science of music, conducting, and popular music. They also take elective courses from other disciplines.<br>This option, which does not require an audition, makes an undergraduate education in music accessible to a wide range of students with varying levels of experience.