我们的作曲和理论博士学位课程提供有关作曲，理论和分析以及电声音乐的深入研究。我们为您提供时间和手段，在我们屡获殊荣的教师的指导下发展对合成工艺的安全控制。您的作品将作为研究生作曲家音乐会系列“ New Music Brandeis”的一部分进行表演和录制。您也可以让Lydian弦乐四重奏和居住乐团朗读您的作品，这些乐团应音乐部门邀请来到Brandeis。该系提供三个组成和理论学位课程：MA（通常为一年），MFA（通常为两年）和​​PhD（通常在完成MFA要求后两年或更长时间）。这些程序旨在帮助学生发展作曲
Our PhD degree program in composition and theory offers in-depth study in composition, theory and analysis and electro-acoustic music. We provide you with the time and means to develop a secure command of the craft of composition under the guidance of our award-winning faculty. Your compositions will be performed and recorded as part of the graduate student composers' concert series, New Music Brandeis. You may also have your compositions read by the Lydian String Quartet and by ensembles-in-residence that are invited to Brandeis by the music department.<br><br>Preparation for teaching careers is an integral part of our PhD program in composition and theory. You'll serve as a teaching fellow during your second, third, fourth and fifth years of training. As such, you'll be responsible for course preparation, lecturing, administering and grading exams and meeting individually with undergraduates.<br><br>Your culminating doctoral thesis will consist of an extensive original composition and a written analytical thesis.