Music Composition Minor
The doctoral minor in Music Composition offers doctoral students in music and opportunity to engage more deeply with music composition. Credits from a doctoral minor may also count toward the completion of a doctoral degree.
Admissions Requirements
A grade point average of at least 3.0 from doctoral study at USC. Approval of the advisor, doctoral minor area faculty, and the Graduate Director.
Minor Requirements (12 Hours)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Study | 3 | |
| Composition | ||
| Electives (no more than 6 hours at the 500 level) | 9 | |
| Orchestration | ||
| Form and Analysis | ||
| Studio Arranging and Composition | ||
| Post-Tonal Music Theory | ||
| Analysis of Popular Music | ||
| Analysis and Performance | ||
| Survey of Analytical Techniques | ||
| Tonality in the Twentieth Century | ||
| Music and Repetition | ||
| Style and Technique Since 1900 | ||
| Topics in Music Theory | ||
| Schenkerian Analysis | ||
| Contrapuntal Techniques | ||
| Contemporary Experimental Music | ||
| Music & Modernism | ||
| Music Cognition | ||
| Transcription and Analysis | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |