Music New York University

Overview

The Music course from New York University track produces well-rounded scholars of music with proficiency in research and a sophisticated understanding of music as a global cultural phenomenon.

Upon completion of the major in Music at NYUAD, students will have acquired:

• Musical literacy, understood as formal knowledge of musical structures and practices, informed primarily (but not solely) by Western and Arab traditions of music theory and analysis
• 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
• 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
• Substantial engagement in musical practice in its many facets, including performance, improvisation, composition, and the use of computational and recording technologies

Career opportunities:

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 programmes 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