BA/BS in Composition Specialization

The Composition specialisation at Soai University links theory and practice to produce music that reaches listeners. Students learn to write melodies, harmonies and orchestral works in individual lessons with teachers who are active professionals. The curriculum also covers modern software and the writing of wind band music that is popular among school students. Shared courses in the music creation course include instrumentation, which examines the structure and sound of pianos, strings, winds and synthesizers, and orchestration, in which students write orchestral and wind band pieces that fellow students then perform. Analysis classes examine how great Western works from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries were composed, so that knowledge of the past informs future music.