{"id":347,"date":"2019-09-18T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:01:53","slug":"composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/program-overview\/composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Composition, B.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Bachelor of Music in Composition<\/strong>\u00a0provides an opportunity to engage in the creation, analysis, and teaching of music. You&#8217;ll complete a series of courses designed to develop your overall musicianship and your understanding of the intricacies and beauty that comprise the language of music.<\/p>\n<p>We have a group of dynamic\u00a0composition faculty\u00a0and energetic young composers in our major. Our students can get involved as soon as they arrive on campus by enrolling in a composition seminar that allows them to rub shoulders with upperclassmen as they study works by contemporary composers, write composition exercises, compose works, and produce concerts. We also have a number of guest composers each year who share their wisdom, skills and experience.<\/p>\n<p>Furman students intending to major in composition must perform an audition on their major instrument\u00a0and complete a music theory placement examination. Final approval for a music degree takes place during your sophomore year.<\/p>\n<h2>Audition and Declaration Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>Furman students intending to major in music must perform an audition. Final approval for a music degree takes place during your sophomore year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/prospective-students\/auditions\/\">Learn more about auditions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Course Sequence<\/h2>\n<p>See the suggested course sequence for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2025\/09\/Sample-BM-Composition-Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-3211\">Bachelor of Music in Composition (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s\u00a0Bachelor of Music in Composition\u00a0provides an opportunity to engage in the creation, analysis, and teaching of music. You&#8217;ll complete a series of courses designed to develop your overall musicianship and your understanding of the intricacies and beauty that comprise the language of music. We have a group of dynamic\u00a0composition faculty\u00a0and energetic young composers in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/3228"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}