2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951616
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1616
Music
310-825-4761
The Department of Music offers undergraduate and graduate training in Western classical music, with specialized undergraduate programs in music composition, education, and performance. Jazz performance is also offered at the graduate level. The department is aligned with the departments of ethnomusicology and musicology and the interdepartmental programs in global jazz studies and music industry, and aspires to promote productive collaboration between performance, pedagogy, composition, and scholarship, a cross-cultural global understanding of the art of music, and preparatory training for a broad range of careers in music after students graduate.
The department offers four-year bachelors’ degrees in music, music composition, music education, and music performance. The curriculum for all four degrees balances a classically oriented program of practical, theoretical, and historical studies with related performance and academic studies in non-Western music. Designed for students who want to combine fine musicianship with academic excellence, all four degrees are based on a core curriculum of theory, history, analysis, and individual and group performance. The music education major additionally offers preparation in pedagogical skills and innovative insights into theories and practice essential to teach music to the diverse student population of California and the world, and offer leadership in the field of arts education.
At the graduate level, specialized studies leading to the degrees of Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) are offered in composition; specialized studies leading to the degrees of Master of Music (MM) and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) are offered in all classical solo instruments, voice, and conducting. Jazz performance is offered at the master’s degree level.
Students interested in a concentration in music history and literature should consider the major in Musicology, and those interested in a concentration in world music should consider the major in Ethnomusicology.
