Music

The Riverland Music Department is an active and vital presence in the college and its communities.

The department strives to provide an excellent education, offering a variety of courses, performances, opportunities, and concerts. Some students involved in Riverland Music ensembles intend to be music majors; however participation is open to all students. Riverland’s ensembles give regular performances throughout the state and region, and have appeared in Alice Tulley Hall (Lincoln Center) and Carnegie Hall. Ever-expanding technology options include courses in digital media, digital audio production, and integration of recording techniques and live technology in to our ensembles.  As of Fall 2017, Riverland was the only community college in the United States offering online music theory and aural skills courses.

At Riverland you can BUILD your future

• Certificate in Community Music Engagement (20 cr)
• Associate of Arts -Music Emphasis (60 cr)

At Riverland you can PERFORM music

• College Choir
• Frequency
• Instrumental Ensemble
• Austin Symphony Orchestra
• live pit orchestras; digital jam sessions

At Riverland you can CREATE music

• Introduction to Songwriting
• Intro to Digital Media
• Intro to Digital Audio & Music Production
• Music Theory classes

At Riverland you can IMPROVE your performance skills

• Beginning Piano Class
• Applied Lessons (1-on-1 lessons in Brass, Percussion, Keyboards, Voice, Strings, Guitar, Banjo, and Mandolin)

At Riverland you can LEARN about music and its functions in the world

• Survey of Music
• American Popular Music
• Music in Society: Hymns to Hip-Hop   video
• Engaging People with Music

At Riverland you can EXPERIENCE the world

• USA Cultural Studies arts travel-study class
• World Cultural Studies arts travel-study class

Riverland students with other two-year college singers in concert at Carngie Hall, May 2019