85 Music, Sound and Creative Technologies Course Programs

You’ll develop a portfolio of compositions and discover your distinct voice while you gain the skills needed to pursue graduate study in composition or a career as a professional composer. Build extensive, diverse musical experiences as you perform your compositions in recitals, participate in music ensembles, and interact with a variety of performance groups—studying near greater Los Angeles and its wide array of venues.

This free online Diploma in Audio System Engineering course teaches you the basic principles, processes, and models that are essential for acoustic systems. Learn about the importance of linear vibrations, the concepts of oscillation and some mathematical tutorials. You will learn about the sensitivity of microphones and the functional requirements of a loudspeaker. Begin this course and improve your audio engineering knowledge and skills.

Discover new and creative ways of combining music and theatre, from Broadway musicals to contemporary collaborations of sound and movement. Learn every aspect of stagecraft from creation to production, including performance, direction, dance, design, and more.

The Music Department has two main aims embracing both the academic and extra-curricular aspects of Music education. We want to make music as fun, inclusive and useful for our students as possible. Academically our aim is to prepare boys for GCSE and AS/A2 level Music (CCEA) and at the same time to nurture talent that will enable boys to participate fully in the activities we offer such as choirs, orchestras, chamber ensembles, Rock groups, Pipe Band and Jazz Band.

Students work closely with professors—internationally recognized theorists, composers, performers, and musicologists—to investigate music in global, historical, and theoretical contexts. Courses encourage creative and critical thinking and emphasize music as an art form as well as a rigorous discipline. Students are exposed to music from a wide variety of past and present world cultures and can select courses in music history and theory, musicianship, performance, conducting, composition, world music, jazz history, American popular music, and African drumming.

Music is both an art, engaging the creative impulse, and a science, involving analytical thinking. That makes it an ideal liberal arts major. At St. Lawrence, we emphasize the relationship between making and studying music.

This level 1 course in Music and Media is designed to provide students who are intrigued and motivated by music and the creative arts with opportunities to explore, develop and test their creativity. Also to progress to further study and training in a range of music, media & perfoming arts disciplines.

The Florida Southern Music program emphasizes applied music while providing a solid foundation in theory, music history, and piano proficiency. Like your performance-focused counterparts, your Bachelor of Arts in Music will be rigorous, comprehensive, and performance-based. You'll take a core set of courses in music theory and history, private instrumental or voice lessons, and perform with our ensembles. Adhering to the liberal arts model, you'll gain proficiency in a foreign language while exploring other humanities like art and philosophy.

Space Under organizes international cross cultural conventions, workshops, and collaborative projects to address and reinforce points of intersection between creative fields.

The DePauw University School of Music provides an excellent musical and intellectual foundation that prepares undergraduate musicians to be adaptive leaders, equipped to actively engage their communities and pursue a breadth of career paths. We believe artists should embrace diversity, foster inclusivity, and raise cultural awareness, and this shapes our community and curriculum. In partnership with DePauw’s College of Liberal Arts, we encourage students to integrate creative and practical musical skills with critical thinking and intellectual inquiry, empowering our graduates for a lifetime of learning.

Smith’s Music Department is a lively center of musical activity with classroom courses that integrate the study of global musical genres and performance practices with critical questioning of music's complex role in society. Across offerings in composition, classical music, world music, music theory and popular music, courses emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to musical knowledge, with faculty working at the intersections of American studies, anthropology, dance studies, gender studies, and political theory.

Develop your love of music and turn it into a career! Gain skills in areas such as music production, sequencing, composition, sound for film, live sound techniques and event management. You will also explore the structure of the music industry and develop the listening skills required by music technologists.

Learning how to listen to and study music can expand and enrich students’ interior lives, making music individually enhances creativity, and making music together touches the communal aspects of life. Music classes, including ethnomusicology, musicology, music theory and applied study, emphasize the interconnectedness of listening, creativity and critical thinking by which students become articulate practitioners of the musical arts.

The music curriculum is designed to deepen students’ understanding of musical form and expression through the development of skill in composition and performance joined with analysis of musical works and their place in various cultures. Bryn Mawr College's partnership with Haverford College allows students to major or minor in Music and take Music courses at Haverford.

Courses in Music at Sewanee, your talent will be cultivated in a variety of settings, increasing your professionalism, talent, and likelihood of success in postgraduate pursuits. A wide variety of music styles are represented here on the Mountain. Through composition, performance, theory, and music culture, you'll be exposed to a wide range of tracks and be able to choose the paths that best suit your talents. We offer composition and theory, music history, and performance.