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Scholarship Program Learn to write music in the style of big budget Hollywood films and
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including how to balance music and dialogue, how to influence the
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audience’s emotional response, and how to create music that elicits a
location or time period. Each week, the course will focus on a
different genre of music for film and TV—themes such as romance, COURSE INFO
sadness/sorrow, chase, heroic action, action adventure, horror,
For-credit tuition: $1,400
suspense, magic, fantasy, and comedy. The course will analyze each
Non-credit tuition: $1,200
genre in terms of melody, harmony, counterpoint, tempo, rhythm, Add 6 CEUs: $25.00

and orchestration, providing you with a “recipe book” for writing for Credits: 3
film and TV. The analyses form a collection of music templates that Duration: 12 weeks
you will then apply towards writing a piece of music for each genre. Catalog #: BMW-190
The final week of the course traces the logistical path of a musical
idea from initial conception to final recording, including composition,
orchestration, and recording. Course Faculty

The course features scores from the biggest composers in Hollywood Ben Newhouse
—scores that are typically not available publicly. The musical Assistant professor at
examples include composers such as John Williams (Star Wars, Berklee College of
Music and a music
Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hook, Schindler's
supervisor and
List), Aaron Zigman (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Bridge to
composer on dozens
Terabithia, Flicka), Alan Sylvestri (Forrest Gump, Polar Express), of television shows,
Marco Beltrami (Hellboy, Live Free or Die Hard, iRobot), James films, and stage
Newton Howard (Atlantis), Pinar Toprak (Light of Olympia), James productions.
Horner (Braveheart, Troy), Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek), and Alf
Clausen (Simpsons) who composed a piece specifically for this
course! The goal of the course is to give you a thorough
understanding of the compositional styles used in Hollywood
projects, in addition to arming you with a 10-piece portfolio of film
and TV music that you can use as demos.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

understand creative considerations for writing to picture,

including balancing music with dialogue, hitting pictures cuts,
and more
identify and apply harmonic devices specific to themes such as
romance, sadness/sorrow, chase, heroic action, action
adventure, horror, suspense, magic, fantasy, and comedy
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identify and apply melodic considerations specific to themes

such as romance, sadness/sorrow, chase, heroic action, action
adventure, horror, suspense, magic, fantasy, and comedy
identify and apply rhythmic considerations specific to themes
such as romance, sadness/sorrow, chase, heroic action, action
adventure, horror, suspense, magic, fantasy, and comedy
understand and apply appropriate orchestration specific to
themes such as romance, sadness/sorrow, chase, heroic action,
action adventure, horror, suspense, magic, fantasy, and
comedy
understand the logistical path of a musical idea from initial
conception to final recording, including composition,
orchestration, and recording
create a 10-piece portfolio of film and TV music in various
genres for demos

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