Theory / Composition Division
The graduate programs in theory and composition are designed to offer professional training for careers in composition, teaching, and scholarship. Applicants are admitted based on their background ability and motivation for academic and artistic achievement and their desire to contribute to the program.
Theory faculty members possess expertise in current methodologies of analysis, history of theory, and pedagogy. Composition faculty members have achieved considerable national and international exposure in a wide variety of media and have extensive experience in developing students' original creative approaches.
Our program offers one-on-one instruction in composition, orchestration, electronic/computer music composition, counterpoint, Schenkerian analysis, 20th-century theory, the history of music theory, pedagogy, and specialized topic offerings in a variety of composer-oriented areas, including career development.
Thanks to several information technology grants from the College of Liberal Arts, electronic music of all types is created and performed with both "classic" and state of the art hardware and software at the School of Music's S.T.R.U.M. (Sound, Technology & Research at the University of Minnesota) Studios.
Last modified on July 2, 2007