Okay, BMOC. How much do you really know about “academic” music? Time to hit the books on WPRB.

We’ll have selections to put you in the mindset of school and study this morning, including symphonies inspired by Cambridge (Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry), Texas Christian University (Don Gillis), Charterhouse (Ralph Vaughan Williams), and a finger-wagging schoolmaster (Franz Joseph Haydn). There will also be a march for the Yale-Princeton Football Game by Charles Ives and episodes of inappropriate hard drinking at graduation with Johannes Brahms and Hugo Alfven.

For extra credit, tune in for test pieces written for student musicians, music performed by university ensembles, and possibly even a few etudes (literally “studies”).

Remember, there will be plenty of time to sleep in class, so join me this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. It’s a perpetual school of hard knocks, on Classic Ross Amico.