Program Overview

Music Composition Degree

Overview

The Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Music Composition is a four-year program that provides students with the foundation to build a vibrant career as a composer. The program is designed to help students develop their musical imagination and hone their skills in writing for instruments and voices, making professional-quality scores, collaborating with performers, and using advanced computer music and intermedia technologies.

Program Details

• Program Type: Major
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 129

Why Earn a Music Composition Degree?

The University of North Texas's College of Music is internationally recognized for artistic and academic excellence. The Composition program has more than 70 students and six full-time faculty members representing a variety of compositional approaches.

Marketable Skills

• Music editing, copying, arranging, transcribing
• Organizing, promoting, managing public events
• Entrepreneurial aptitude
• Audio engineering/recording studio management
• Computer technology competency

Music Composition Degree Highlights

• Scholarships are available to help students pursue their degree.
• The College of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
• The Spectrum concert series features new solo and chamber works for instruments and voices, often utilizing new technologies and intermedia.
• The Center for Experimental Music & Intermedia (CEMI) provides a unique environment for the exploration of time-based arts.

What Can You Do With a Music Composition Degree?

Graduates are employed as arrangers, orchestrators, music copyists, audio engineers, conductors, and teachers. They work for advertising agencies, film studios, recording companies, symphony orchestras, and universities.

Music Composition Degree Courses

• Intermediate Composition I (1 hr)
• Instrumentation (3 hrs)
• Orchestration (3 hrs)
• Music as Politics (3 hrs)
• Music Business and Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
• Music Cultures of the World (3 hrs)

Related Programs

• Music Composition Master's
• Music Composition Ph.D.

Similar Areas of Study

• Music & Performing Arts
• College of Music
• Division of Composition Studies

Location

• Music Building, Room 216A
• 1155 Union Circle, Denton, Texas

Accreditation

• The College of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.