Welcome to the Colby Department of Music web site! Colby has a very active and welcoming music department where students work closely with a faculty made up of outstanding performers, composers, conductors, theorists, and scholars. The department combines outstanding academic instruction in a liberal arts setting with a variety of performing opportunities. The eight faculty and twenty instructors in instruments and voice offer courses ranging from music history and theory to musicianship, performance, conducting, composition (including computer-generated and electronic composition, as well as film music), world music, jazz history, American popular music, and African drumming.