Oberlin College and Conservatory

Composition Audition Information

Composition is closely linked to the Technology in Music and Related Arts (TIMARA). All composition majors have access to instruction in and use of the TIMARA Lab.

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Introductory courses in composition, technology, instrumentation/orchestration, counterpoint, and form during the first two years provide intensive training in the fundamentals of the craft of musical composition. These courses have a variety of instructional approaches, including seminar-style classroom instruction, frequent performance/critique sessions, and supplementary private lessons.

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For their third and fourth years, composition majors receive private instruction in composition with the professor(s) of their choice, culminating in a senior-year recital consisting of 50 minutes of music. Additional courses available to composition students include advanced counterpoint, as well as electives in technology, jazz arranging and composition, choral arranging, music theory, and music history.

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                                                                                                                                     Updated on 04/12/2019