百翰姆·杨大学是美国西部最早，最杰出的古典音乐培训中心之一，长期致力于作曲教学。现在进入第二个世纪，音乐学院提供有抱负的作曲家音乐学士学位和音乐硕士学位。作曲的学生有机会在哈里斯美术中心学习，该中心拥有大学所有艺术系以及一系列的音乐厅和演奏厅，剧院和美术馆，一流的模拟和数字设备（称为ALMA实验室和EMS），用于乐谱准备的计算机和软件，以及致力于不断获取乐谱和我们时代音乐唱片的精美音乐库。
One of the first and most distinguished centers of classical music training in the American west, Brigham Young University has long devoted itself to the teaching of composition. Now in its second century, the School of Music offers aspiring composers Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. Students in composition have the opportunity to study in the Harris Fine Arts Center, which houses all university departments in the arts as well as an array of concert and recital halls, theaters, and galleries, first-rate analog and digital equipment (known as the ALMA lab and EMS), computers and software for score preparation, and a fine music library committed to constant acquisition of scores and recordings of the music of our time.<br><br>Beyond the broad preparation for professional musicianship provided by the School of Music core requirements, the BM in Music Composition readies its graduates to<br><br>Write in a variety of contemporary ''art music'' musical vocabularies for the purpose of modern and post-modern artistic expression<br>Write in a variety of historic vocabularies (e.g. eighteenth-century counterpoint) for the purpose of accompanying theatrical or cinematic productions (as well as to understand the traditions and structures that link past and present western music)<br>Orchestrate (and compose for orchestra as well as smaller mixed ensembles) in various idioms<br>Recruit, organize, and rehearse players to perform new music for concerts or recordings<br>Proceed to deeper and more rigorous compositional study in a university graduate program