9 Master Programs in Composition in North America for 2024

Master Programs in Composition in North America for 2024Filter
    • San Francisco, USA

    Full time

    4 semesters

    Distance Learning, On-Campus

    English

    The MA in Music Scoring & Composition provides students with focused training in music composition and production workflows, digital audio workstations, virtual instruments, and industry standard practices in music scoring for visual media. Building on a foundation of musicianship, students will learn contemporary scoring techniques which provide the necessary skills for success in changing music industry. Emphasis is placed on creating emotion through music, MIDI orchestration, and synchronization with visual media.

    • San Francisco, USA

    Full time

    6 semesters

    Distance Learning, On-Campus

    English

    The MFA in Music Scoring & Composition is designed to provide the highest level of training in music composition and scoring for film, television, games, and other visual media. Balancing musicianship training with contemporary production skills to reflect a changing music industry, students will learn music theory, composition, harmony, orchestration, and arranging, focusing on creating emotion through music in synchronization with visual media. Students will use the latest computer-based production workflows, digital audio workstations, and virtual instrument libraries. The focus is on composition using virtual instruments, resulting in a thesis project and portfolio in the final year.

    • Fort Lauderdale, USA

    Full time

    6 years

    On-Campus

    English

    If you want to make a career out of writing, Nova Southeastern University’s Dual Admission program in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media could be the right fit for you. You can save your seat in NSU’s master’s program while you earn your bachelor’s degree, keeping your goals in clear sight as you gain real-world experience and build relationships with your professors and peers.

    • Kansas City, USA

    Students will develop their musical voice as creative artists, and consistently produce works. Students will develop mastery of analytical and technical skills in a variety of media and genres. Students will develop their skills as collaborators with performers and generative artists and promote their work. Students will refine their ability to speak and write about their music and the music of their time, and build audiences through mentoring, teaching and advocating new music.

    • Fort Worth, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    Rhythm and meter, melody and harmony, tones of shadow and light. TCU’s music theory and composition students explore these underlying principles of music. You’ll learn from five full-time faculty composers and theorists, as well as several other accomplished composers, in a highly selective program offering individual instruction and mentoring.

    • Madison, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    The University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison Mead Witter School of Music composition area offers multi-faceted and comprehensive degrees in composition, with the opportunity to study with leading composers in the field. With multiple seminars in composition, including those offered on film music, text setting, and ensemble writing, and intensive orchestration courses, highlighted by the end of semester orchestral readings, there are many important and useful course offerings for composers.

    • Montpelier, USA

    English

    Our program—the first of its kind—lets you find your own creative voice, pursue your professional interests, build a body of work, and join a global community of musicians and composers.

    • Kent, USA

    English

    The Master of Arts - Music Composition is designed to advance the music composition creative skills of advanced students and to prepare them for admission to doctoral study. The program emphasizes mastery of composition of large-scale works for media including orchestra, choir, band and/or chamber music ensembles. Based on a solid undergraduate music degree, the master’s degree further develops abilities in music theory including analytical, aural, written, keyboard, and pedagogical skills. The program further develops breadth and depth in the area of Western music history and literature. Students are required to write a thesis composition.

    • New York, USA

    Full time, Part time

    3 semesters

    On-Campus

    English

    Develop your skills as a music composer in a conservatory-like setting in this master of a music program, working closely with our faculty of internationally recognized composers. Specialize in traditional composition, electronic composition, or composing for film or music theatre. You will be actively involved in the performance of your work, collaborating with composers, musicians, and other artists, at NYU and throughout New York City.