Bachelor of Music in Music Technology - Composition for Media

Duquesne University

Pursuing the Bachelor of Music in Music Technology will connect you to the cutting-edge of a creative industry that is seeking composers and engineers for broadcast, film, gaming, ministry, medicine, recording studios, sound stages, television, and virtual reality platforms. With two distinct tracks, Sound Recording Technology and Composition for Media, you are able to tailor your studies to your personal interests. Learning Outcomes: Students must demonstrate achievement of professional, entry-level competence in the major area, including significant technical mastery, capability to produce work and solve professional problems independently, and a coherent set of artistic/intellectual goals that are evident in their work and music technology projects. Students are expected to have the ability to form and defend value judgments about music and music technology to communicate musical/technological ideas, concepts, and requirements to professionals and laypersons related to the practice of the music technology composition for media field. Students must demonstrate competence in music technology and composition. These elements include: video/film/media/gaming score composition, composition in various musical styles and historical periods, electronic orchestration, electronic music notation, digital and analog audio as well as hybrid recording (tracking, mixing, and mastering), MIDI sequencing, electronic performance techniques, programming analog and virtual synthesizers, composition and web integration of multi-media objects. Students must demonstrate polished technical and interpretive skills necessary for informed solo and collaborative work appropriate to the degree and at a professional level.

Mary Pappert School of Music