Music thrives at Brandeis. We have an award-winning faculty comprised of composers, scholars, instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors. We offer both a one-year MA and a two-year MFA in composition ...

An introduction to the fundamental materials of a variety of music, including Western concert music, jazz, and popular music. Course activities center around interrelated theoretical, compositional, ...

This class is the first level of music theory and is intended to be an introductory course including notation (staff, clefs, time signatures, measures, etc.), note reading, rhythm reading, music ...

The curricula for undergraduate students majoring in music lead to the Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees. All programs in music provide effective preparation for graduate study. The ...

With a return to in-person learning, these institutions offer aspiring composers the training they’ll need to thrive in Hollywood. By Jeff Bond After weathering more than a year and a half of the ...

Undergraduate music majors take required courses in Music Theory (semesters 1-4) and Aural Skills (semesters 1-4), along with upper-division electives in tonal analysis, post-tonal analysis, ...

For centuries, the process of writing music has been the same, whether it’s done with pencil and paper or a computer: The art ...