该学位旨在为毕业生准备从事作曲，大学教学或博士研究的职业。MU提供许多与艺术家进行各种媒介合作，与社区互动参与创作过程以及在校园内外进行表演的机会。毕业于新音乐乐团的学生致力于表演在MU学习的学生作曲家的作品。我们的年度Sinquefield作曲奖使我们的一名学生有机会在年度校长音乐会上进行大型合奏的作品。此外，我们每年春季举办“学生作曲家音乐会”，“作曲家论坛”和“作曲家协会”的学生分会。我们的毕业生被录取了该国一些最负盛名的博士课程，我们的学生赢得了许多比赛全国音乐教师协会，全国音乐教育工作者会议以及
This degree is designed to prepare the graduate for a career in composition, college teaching, or doctoral study.MU offers numerous opportunities for collaboration with artists various mediums, community engagement in the creative process, and performance of works on and off campus. The graduate New Music Ensemble is dedicated to performing works of student composers studying at MU. Our annual Sinquefield Composition Prize gives one of our students the opportunity to have a work for large ensemble performed at the annual Chancellor's Concert. In addition we host a Student Composers Concert each spring, a Composers Forum, and a student chapter of Society of Composers, Inc. Our graduates have been admitted to some of the most prestigious doctoral programs in the country, and our students have won many competitions of the Music Teachers National Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and the prestigious Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) Student Composers.Prerequisites Bachelors degree in music (or demonstrated equivalent) GPA of 3.0 in the last 60 hours 3 credits of 18th- or 16th-century counterpoint 2 credits of orchestration 8 credits of composition 4 credits of music history (equivalent study to Music 2307-2308) 16 credits of applied instruction (or equivalent)