[nabs-l] composition

[Christopher Wright]

Purchase deals with pop music.
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> Hello,
> Of course, any decent music school will offer composition majors. When I 
> say
> composition I mean composition of art music (what classical musicians 
> refer
> to as contemporary music). If you are looking into pop music and things 
> like
> that I can't help much at all, but I can tell you places that I am 
> familiar
> with. The Juilliard school in New York (www.juilliard.edu) has a great
> composition program. People like Milton Babbitt teach in there. Of course,
> getting accepted into the program is hard, and you will be required to 
> send
> in a collection of scores composed by you etc. The Indiana University 
> Jacobs
> school of music (music.indiana.edu) also has a great program, although it 
> is
> smaller than Juilliard's and I'm not even sure they are accepting
> applications this year. The program is great, and composers get to have
> their works performed more often than anywhere else because the school has 
> 6
> orchestras. Composers at IU tend to work a lot with the musicology
> department, which is literally the best in the nation. An other good 
> program
> is the one at the New England Conservatory (www.necmusic.edu), although I
> don't know much about it. I know the Curtis institute also has a 
> composition
> program, but it's probably almost impossible to get in.
> These are just three schools, but you can look into other good ones such 
> as
> University of Michigan, the Manhattan school of music, the Oberlin
> conservatory, the Eastman school and probably many others although I am
> getting sleepy and can't think of them.
> Good luck!
>
> I<C
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Christopher Wright <
> chriswright11 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> At SUNY Purchase, in New York, there are two courses that deal with
>> composition. One is just called Composition. The other is called Studio
>> Composition. The best thing I can do is refer you to their web site.
>>
>> www.purchase.edu
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>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:45 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] composition
>>
>>
>>  Hi all:
>>> I am currently in high school and I'm looking for a career in music.
>>> Does anyone know if there is a composition course at the university 
>>> level?
>>> If so, what genre(s), and what are the requirements?
>>> If this composition class is part of a major, what's the major and what
>>> does the major require?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jorge
>>>
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