Looking to transfer to a good music school

[dPaladin]

But I need to know what a good music school is. Anyone have some recommendations? I know about Eastman, Julliard, IU Jacobs, Berklee, and that whole tier of skill and conceit, and I'll be applying at a couple of those, but I already failed to get in to IU last year (I hope it was close though, because there were only like 15 of us the weekend I was there).

Anyway, recommend colleges. They have to offer a BM in music composition and you have to think that they at least don't totally suck.

[dPaladin]

I'm not above bumping this. Come on, I'm sure some of you are going to school for music.

[Bahamut]

I'm not above bumping this. Come on, I'm sure some of you are going to school for music.

Nope, it's an illusion...don't trust them all!

[Moseph]

Well, I plan to go to grad school for music composition. Eventually. And I'm not sure where yet. So that isn't really much help to you. :-(

Got my BM from Western Carolina University, but they don't have a composition program.

[Fratto]

As much as I despise UTArlington, it's Theory/Comp professors are amazing. If only the other divisions were as good.

[Papajohn56]

University of South Carolina has a pretty good one

[DrumUltimA]

Peabody is a really good school and pixietricks and i go there!! here is the composition department on our shitty web site: http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/composition

i also know that new england conservatory, manhattan school of music, and oberlin are also very good choices

[dPaladin]

Peabody doesn't look too bad. They say they have roughly a 50% acceptance rate, and there's no instrumental audition for composition applicants, which is good for me (failing my clarinet audition kept me out of IU Jacobs).

New England Conservatory looks a little stuck up, but better than where I am now. I'll look at the other ones too, but I'm trying to avoid state schools if I can.

Thanks everyone!

[DrumUltimA]

come to peabody and we will have mad remixing parties

[Dyne]

Don't tempt me, I want to go to school for music. Problem is, I doubt I'd get into any of the high faluten schools because I lack instrument skills. Which, by the way, shall soon be rectified.

[dPaladin]

come to peabody and we will have mad remixing parties
It's a secret, but I suck at remixing. My beats aren't phat enuff. :(

Don't tempt me, I want to go to school for music. Problem is, I doubt I'd get into any of the high faluten schools because I lack instrument skills. Which, by the way, shall soon be rectified.
It takes a bit of farsightedness to get into the most selective schools. I didn't really practice until the end of my junior year in high school. It wasn't good enough.

[siven7]

The academic portion of theory/history/basic skills (or aural skills) at the University of Manitoba is really cool because it does everything chronologically - you start with cantus, learn about crafting melodies, singing in different modes and start with learning ancient music and then work forward through history with all three core subjects integrated into one another. It forces one to look at the musical line and that's really affected the way that I look at music and composing myself.

Also, U of M has 3 comp professors and focusses a lot on really modern writing - new ways of looking at harmony and writing with some serious extended instrument techniques. Also, Orjan Sandred teaches there, if you're into the Electro-Acoustic scene ;)

http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/music/
Okay, that's my plug :P

[Moseph]

Also, U of M has 3 comp professors and focusses a lot on really modern writing - new ways of looking at harmony and writing with some serious extended instrument techniques. Also, Orjan Sandred teaches there, if you're into the Electro-Acoustic scene ;)

http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/music/
Okay, that's my plug :P
You've piqued my interest. Do the grad students there seem happy? (Or at least not too cynical?)

[siven7]

You've piqued my interest. Do the grad students there seem happy? (Or at least not too cynical?)

They do - it's a ton of work (like any grad program, I suppose) but the grad program is still pretty small, so it's a lot of one-on-one (or one-on-three) time with the profs. The focus is generally on more modern music ("if you aren't writing for the future, you're already in the past," I think Luigi Russolo said that), but it's still a pretty comprehensive program.

(also, Canadian tuition, mucho affordable ;)).

[Majin GeoDooD]

What about JMU's School of Music? I dunno anything about it.. just figured I'd mention it.