布兰代斯大学的音乐研究生课程集中在两个领域：作曲和理论与音乐学。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技巧。该目标得到了理论和分析研究以及电声音乐的支持。在布兰代斯，您可以听到自己的作品作为新音乐《布兰代斯》的一部分进行录制和录制，该系列是当代音乐会，展示了布兰代斯的学生，教师和校友作曲家的作品。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Brandei
Music thrives at Brandeis. We have an award-winning faculty comprised of composers, scholars, instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors. We offer both a one-year MA and a two-year MFA in composition and theory. Both degree programs are designed to help you develop a command of the craft of composition. That objective is supported by studies in theory and analysis and in electro-acoustic music.<br> <br>The one-year MA program is for you if you want to engage in beginning graduate study without making a multi-year commitment. The two-year MFA program offers more in-depth study and requires writing a master's thesis in the form of an original composition.<br><br>At Brandeis, you can hear your compositions performed and recorded as part of New Music Brandeis, a contemporary concert series that showcases the work of Brandeis student, faculty and alumni composers. 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>Our state-of-the-art facilities include:<br><br> The Slosberg Music Center, which houses<br> 30 pianos including the one used by Leonard Bernstein as a child<br> The Jencks Early Music Room, which contains an extensive collection of period instruments, including two harpsichords and an historic Viennese fortepiano.<br> An electro-acoustic studio (BEAMS).