Bachelor's in Music and Computing (BA)

The BA in Music & Computing provides general courses from both music composition and computer science including fundamental music theory, music composition techniques, form and analysis, instrumentation and orchestration, electro-acoustic music, mathematics, database systems, operating systems, software engineering, algorithmic design, and programming languages. Students will complete this degree with the Capstone Project that showcases a creative application using music and computer programming. The degree entails general studies (40 credit hours), music composition (40 credits) and computer science (41 credits). The necessary private lessons will be taught by CCPA’s Kyong Mee Choi, Stuart Folse and Daron Hagen; other music courses by the core Music Conservatory faculty; and computer science courses will be taught by CAS’s Meng Yu, Alex Wolpert, Evgeny Dantsin  and Ray Wright.