Music New York University

Overview

Learning Outcomes

• Musical literacy, conceived as formal knowledge of music and musical practices from major world cultures, according to style, periodization, region, genre, and structural features.
• Ability to communicate in written and oral form about music and music practices employing a critical vocabulary that can be applied to the analysis, interpretation, and making of music;
• Ability to use sound equipment, and music notation, sequencing, recording, and programming software;
• Ability to compose music in different styles for different configurations instruments voices and/or electronics;
• Ability to proficiently play an instrument or sing with proper intonation, clear articulation and phrasing;
• An interdisciplinary conception of music, informed by a well-grounded understanding of its historical and contemporary interrelations with other art forms and fields of inquiry and research;

Employment and Graduate Studies

Students who major in Music acquire a broad set of skills enabling them to start a professional career upon graduating, or apply to prestigious graduate programs worldwide in music composition, certain areas in music performance, music technology, musicology and ethnomusicology, or related or intersecting disciplines (e.g., sociocultural anthropology).

• arts administration
• composition
• cultural policy
• education
• electronic music performance
• music and arts journalism
• music and entertainment law
• music performance
• music production
• music publishing
• music/sound design for film and theater
• non-profit or industry research
• sound art
• sound engineering
• sound design
• sound recording