Add ‘Pet Sounds’ to Animal Music Syllabus

I read with interest the December 2025 article about Animal Music (Class Close-Up).

The article reminded me about the second half of our senior year when many of us looked for “gut” courses like Introduction to Music and Introduction to Art, two of the best courses I ever took at Princeton.

While I applaud the professors who created this very meaningful course, I suggest that they look for a copy of Pet Sounds, by the late Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys in 1966, and make this required listening for the many motivated students who take this course that was not offered back in 1965.