Composition - Cornell University

Composition from Cornell University is a Campus Master Music and Instruments degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The Composition program at Cornell combines private lessons and group seminars, with an emphasis on the development of the student's personal approach to composition, while attaining the highest possible technical mastery. The D.M.A. at Cornell blends scholarship with artistic work. Like some Ph.D. programs, we require a foreign language and a thesis dealing with a historical or theoretical topic (not with the candidate's own music), and we expect that all composers will do some seminar work in academic subjects. A principal strength of the program is that, like all Cornell doctorates in the humanities, the D.M.A. program in composition offers the adventurous student the opportunity to study many subjects, including topics outside the field of music , and to meld these into a highly individual course of study. Students who do not already have a master's degree in music earn the Master of Fine Arts in the course of their study; but the M.F.A. is not normally viewed as a terminal degree at Cornell, and those wishing to earn only the master's degree are not usually admitted. All doctoral students are admitted with four full years of funding in the form of 1.5 years of fellowships and 2.5 years of teaching assistantships. View more details on Cornell University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Music and Instruments courses.