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 introduces students to the fundamentals of music including notation (staff, clefs, time signatures, measures, etc.), note reading, rhythm reading, music history, and more. This class ...

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 ...

You could be the next Bach, Beethoven, Steven Stuckey, Elliot Carter with a little help from Central New York composer Diane Jones. She will teach students how to write music using a computer program ...

Fall 2025 Digital Music is now open for registration! The Digital Music class is for those who like to tinker around with online music making and/or midi keyboards! Class will focus on key aspects of ...

First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

Learn how to compose, mix, design and arrange music and sound assets for commercial and artistic media. The B.M. in Composition for New Media curriculum is interdisciplinary. You will take courses in ...

As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...