Bachelor's Degree in Composition

Degree: Bachelor of Music
Major: Music
Concentration: Composition
Hours: 128

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Music Composition Degree Overview

The Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music at �鶹AV offers a Bachelor of Music Degree with a concentration in Composition. The program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and fully immerses you in the cultural study of composition. Here, you can sing in a chorus, go to a live performance, compose an original piece, enjoy music of various genres and play your instruments, all while refining your natural gifts and talents. Surrounded by artistic institutions throughout our area, we strongly encourage you to participate in Southeast Texas’ cultural life.

Some of our regional ensembles include the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Beaumont Interfaith Choral Society, Beaumont Community Players, Beaumont Ballet Theatre and the Beaumont Civic Ballet. Other opportunities lie in our rich variety of religious institutions, live music venues and community theatre companies, to name a few, that are always willing to have LU music students as performers – and some of those pay scholarships or stipends. Southeast Texas is an ideal place to study music in all its forms.

Watch the faculty interview with Department Chair Brian Shook to learn more about the Department of Music.

Music Composition Courses You May Take

Composition: Lower division individual applied lessons. Enrollment is restricted to music majors who have successfully completed a departmental audition. Any student enrolled in this course will be concurrently enrolled in the appropriate major ensemble as described elsewhere in the university catalog. Any exception must be approved by the chair of the music department.

Repertoire and Pedagogy: A presentation and study of the literature, its performance, styles and means of presentation for a particular instrument or instruments. Eight semesters in the same instrument required (MUAP-applied) of each major.

Opera Workshop: A laboratory class for advanced voice students providing study of complete operatic roles, scenes and excerpts for presentation in the opera theatre. Annual full-scale opera production. Auditions open to all qualified students.

World Music: A study of music of the world cultures.

Music Theory I: A practical/theoretical study of tonal music fundamentals, particularly those of the Common Practice.

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Career Paths for Music Composition

As a composition major, you have many options open to you upon graduation, depending on the areas in which you network and perform during your studies. We highly recommend further graduate and even postgraduate study to take you to the heights of your career as a professional composer.